SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 4315, 17 March 1884, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

Laht three nights of tho Opera Company. St. I'atrick's Day in tho evening. Maunsbll, tlio alleged embezzlor, is out on bail. Anothor nice "row" Is on among the Hospital authorities. Now Government printing oflico to be built at Wellington. It is proposed to apjjoint a permanent Minister of Public Instruction in New South Wales.

Election of Auckland Col!ogo governor takos place on sth April noxt. A Firo Brigado demonstration, in which 2,000 men took part, was hold lately at Gee* long, Victoria, It is said that Ogcar Wildo in getting married to an Irish girl with i' 20,000 and no mother-in-law. To Kooti and his cavalcade are on flieir way to Thames from tho Waikato. A female doanon has been appointed in connection with tho parish church of South Yarra, Victoria. In tho trial of Hughes and Maloney for arson at Hokitika, the jury were unable to agree, and wore discharged. Customs receipts at Wellington last wcok were ±'8,905, tho largest ever known thero. A shop and bakory at Akaroa, Canterbury, wore burned down on Saturday. Tlioy wor6 insured for £300 in tho .Now Zoaland Office.

A young man, named Edgar Roborn, a recent arrival by the British Queen, was sevorely injured by a fall of earth on the Manawatu railway works. He is in Wellington Hospital in a precarious condition. Hon, E. Richardson is mentioned as a certain candidate for Kaiapoi if Mr Wilson resign. The South Australian Government oflor £200 reward for tho apprehension of the authors of incendiary tires, A rowing contest at Wellington on Saturday resulted in a win for the Wellington toam, tho Canterbury team being second, and Wanganui last, Tho members of the Scots Church, Melbourne, have decided to proceed with the movement for separation from tho Presbyterian Church of Victoria.

On Saturday the directors of tho Mariebol Gold-mining Company, Tiki, Coromandol, mot and appointed YY. Samuel Hutclnnson mine manager. The man who recently cu,t the telegraph lino in South Australia, in the vain hope of bringing holp to save him from perishjng of thirst, prdvps p) have been Philip Millard, a traveller unacquainted with tho country. South Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Society is in rather a sickly condition. The last show wo.? a comparative failure, and the Association has now a bank overdraft of £431. A panvass is to be made for subscriptions. The follpwing was sent to a Mr Well: wood, who was much given to exaggeration :

'! You double each story 7011 toll, You double each sight that you sco ; Your name's double it c. doublo I, Doublo it doublo 0 d." Perhaps ho was an Jirishman, and accustom^ to cfoiihlin'. The Manchester Unity of Odcjfellows are in a thriving condition in Otago. The annual meeting has just been held, at which reports were read showing tho receipts for the past year to have beep £7,488 12s 3d,and the expenditure £4,041 5b sd. The total value of lodge funds at present is £36,476 10s Bd.

Katp Mann sues Mr p. H. Mervyn, late M.H.R. for Mqunt Ida, for £500 wages as his housekeeper, and £200 damages for breach of promise of marriage. Defendant alleges that he has paid her q,U moneys due, denies that therp was eyer an agreement to marry, and phargps hpr wit}) gfpss jn'propriPty'-"