SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 4322, 24 March 1884, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

Professor Caillau'h farewell benefit tonight. Salute to our Japaneso visitors to-day. Tho Governor le " in hot water" by this time.

Poet-cards wore Invented by an Austrian. Donald Dinnio will reach Auckland in tho course of several weeks*

Whangaroa Kegatta takes place on Wednesday first. Five comets aro reported to be visiblo at Buenos Ayros. Government House grounds will bo closed during His Excelloncy s visit. No room for tho Maori King and suite on next mail steamer.

Mr Gladstone is miking but slow recovery from his present illness. Frozen meat, ox A'ictory, is realising from sjd to (3d per lb in London. Four fresh informations for forgery havo boon sworn against Watty at Wellington.

A oorn exchange is to be open for business on April 3rd in Dunedin. Mr Powell's expedition to New Guinea iff delayed for want of funds. That Is quite a " new guinea " aspect of the question. A young woman named Maria O'Connor was found in a dying stato in Wellington on Saturday, and expired shortly after removal to the Hospital. Signor Dopretis has undertaken the formation of a new Italian Cabinet.

A number of tho public visited the ship Northumberland yesterday, but wero dinappointed at finding ".No Admittance" chalked over tho entrance to the "black hole."

The Land and Loan Company of Now Zealand, with a capital of one million, has been registered in London. On Saturday morning, the premises of Jas. BraCkenridge, baker, Invorcargill, were destroyed by fire. Buildings, stock, etc., were insured for £325.

The refrigerating machinery of the Ruapehu, now at Port Chalmers, h<ts suffered brenkago, and the meat is to bo transferred to the lonic at Lyttelton. Tho Victorian gunboats will not bo required at Souakim, and havo therefore proceeded to Aden. Politicians at Home seem all to bo in for illness just now. Sir Stafford Northcote and Earl Cairns are both suffering from catarrh.

Sydney Taiwhanga was on board the flagship at Tauranga Regatta, and informed his native friends that he was acting as special reporter to one of tho newspapers of the town.

In 1882, the Union S.S. Co, contributed £1961 17s 5d to Dunedin dock receipts, and in 1883 this increased to £2610 0s Bd. The total vessels docked last year was 65, yielding a revenue of £3120 15s Id. On Friday afternoon, at a meeting of the creditors of J. & J. Watson, of tho Grand Hotel, Dunedin, it wae resolved to vest the property in three trustees to be carried on for the benefit of the creditors. The bankrupts are to manage the business, and as it was shown to be clearing £300 per month, there seems no doubt o/ the creditors receiving satisfaction in full. A lad named Kelly, who was accidentally shot at the rifle butts at Nelson, died of his injuries in the Hospital on Friday. Deceased was a promising youth of 17 years, and had passed the Civil Service Examination.

At the end of 1883 the population of Viotoria was estimated at 031,785, and of New South Wales 869,310. The increaso in New South Wales was 61,842 during the year, or double that nf VJclorin. The Cod of Matrimony-Hymen, !o wil —is always portrayed carrying a torch. C.-i!i thin iv..l!y be in order to th'rou ... li •■:.(.- ---i.pon those littlE imperfection < Uvei.-. blind to ': Girls aro very odd—Komu of tlu-iu ilon't know the names of their friends. Borne even don't know what their own may be a year hence. The man who fights a duel must be the oddest of all odd men out, because, you see, his first consideration is for his second.