SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 4325, 26 March 1884, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

Music and the drama both dormant.

Star Monthly Summary on Saturday' nc*t. , Very bad harvest weather In Otago. Tho banana, according to Spaniards,was the fruit which Ev6 ato.

Ashley County Council, Canterbury, has been extinguished. The Jopaneso war-ship Is to be open to visitors on Thursdays and Sundays after one o'olocK

King Tawhiao still sticks to oold water. Yesterday the Batik of New Zealand shipped 2,7630_5. gold from Hokitika. Dunedin City Council have dismissed the soxton of tho Southern oemctofy for improper discharge of his duties. Christehureh Drainage Board are going in for retrenchment, and by re-organising the staff hope to Save £J ,200 d year. Too bad, eh I Donald Dinnie has not a free railway pa. _. It is proposed to form an Otago Historical Society-. The Zealandia, With tho March mails, arrived at 'Frisco on 28rd inst, Mr Gladstone says of land nationalisation —" Compulsory e-propridtion is admissible, and oven sound in prm-lpte." _ Dunedin Amateur Athletic Club intend holding a winter steeplechase meeting. Wanganui people are presently exercised over the subject of higher ftl-CStion. Still they come. Mr T. Dwan, Auctioneer, is " out" for the Thorndon.eoa..

Mr Wafdell, R.M., Wellington, has maintained the right of lodgers at hotels to "shout" drinks for visitors on Sundays. "Soakers"may take the hint. South Dunedin Borough loan of £10,000 has beon taken up by the Government Insurance Department at £97 at six per cent. Mr W. D. Carruth-rs; fotmc.ly manager of the Trust and Loan Company, died on Saturday at Christehureh. The bodies of the three fishermen drowned ftt Wanganul on Sunday have fiot been recovered. Their boat was found seven miles from the Scene of the aocident. Ordors have been given by Col. Reader that tlie headquarters Of the A.C. force are to bd removed from Cambridge to Alexandra. Gonoral reductions are to be made in the expenses. His Excellency the Governor has written denying that he reported unfavourably on the Caswell Marble Company's works. He did not even visit them.

Allow a boy to run at large one year in indolence* s;nd you have laid tho foundation whereon will rest his future tuifl.

Government having resolved upon using part of the Post and Telegraph Offices at Wellington for Customs business, the leading ciOKens of the Empire city protest against the proposed diversion. A Mrs Kiddie, of Adelaide, has been committed for trial for killing her, husband by throwing a pair of scissors at him, which entered his temple. The Wellington-Manawatu Railway Company yesterday accepted the tender ot Mr Seymour, of Auckland, for the construction of eight miles of line at the Otaki ond, and the bridge over tho Ohau river, the price boing £8,000. At Dunodin yesterday, Mr Carew, R.M., decided that the New Zealand Mortgage and Agency Company were not liable to be assessed upon £60,000, representing the estimated value of tho goodwill of the business. The members of Cust Road Board, Canterbury, havo been arrested on the charge of trespassing on an estate and breaking down a. bank to make an opening for water. There is a dispute as to property involved. Three thousand shares nave been applied for in the new Accident Insurance Association. Judge Williams has decided at Dunedin that a woman who cohabits with a man has no legal claim to a share in his business. Tlie Hot Springs of New Zealand are hiirhlv piaifedbv Or Simnis, the physios.----uclni-1.. Tint bathing in t-hem (ho nays) U most beneficial, .especially in cases of nervous debility. During the meetings conducted by the Blue Ribbon Army in the Exhibition building, Melbourne, about 12,000 people signed the pledge and 20,000 donned tho "bito blue." ~ , Mrs Fleet, wife of a blacksmith, is in custody at Invercarglll on a charge of man. slaughter, arising out of alleged malpractice as a midwife.