SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 4309, 14 March 1884, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

The Governor arrives in Auckland to morrow.

Last night of th« Opera subscription season.

Auckland is now enjoying an " Indian Summer."

Regatta of Auckland Rowing Association takes place to-morrow. Sir Wm. Fox U unable to visit Dunedin at present. A mail of 900. letters brought by the s.s. lonic at Wellington. Java and neighbouring islands are doclared infected places. 91 births and 35 deaths in Auckland during February. Somo of tho salmon ova brought por lonic aro in good condition. Pillow, a Christchurch commission agent, has " vamoosed,"

In Bavaria, a church to hold 1,000 peoplo has boon built of paper. Rev. Dr. Begg, the leading Scottish Diseenter lately deceased, is sard to havo made £80,000 by stock gambling. Infant mortality in New Zealand towns is very high. Last month, of 174 deaths, 74 wero children under one year, while deaths under five years were over 53 per cent, of the whole.

The Resident Magistrate at Christchurch has upheld the right of an apiarist to trespass on other people's land in order to recover swarms of bees belonging to him. Messrs Herbei'fe^dward Dymook, Wanganui; John IngraYn, Oxford; A. Montgomery, Wanganui; George Sinclair Robertson, Wanganui; and William Traill, Stewart Island, are gazetted Justices of the Peace.

Allan Campbell, a settlor at Macrae's, Otago, was killed yesterday by being run over by a dray. His wife and ono of his twelve children witnoßscd the' shocking event.

Bay of Islands nativoß invite the Governor to be present at a great gathering in WaitangiHall on tho 25th inst. The Governor proposes to go North on Wednesday, but may postpone his visit. There are about 3,000 wild Bheep at largo in Marlborough district, and tenders aro called for their destruction. Taking tho last five years, our imports from Great Britain have only exceeded the exports by about 6 per cent. Who says the Stage and Church are 'antagonistic? The Waitemata Minstrels are to give a banjo and bones entertainment for the benefit of St. Thomas's Church, Auckland. %' • ijr

The London omnibjiaej travel in the year upwards of fifteen million miles, and carry more than fifty millions of passengers. Rev. Dr. Kay, of Edinburgh, who recently caused a sensation by his defence of the theatre, has resigned his pastorate. The Czar's splendid yacht, the Liyadia, has proved an unsuccessful experiment in naval architecture, and is now a coal-hulk at Sebastopol. Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association has .337 members and 130 life members. Last year's income was £3,060, and there is now a credit balance oi £23 15s.