MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 115, 23 May 1885, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Accident Insurance Association declare a dividend of ;i per cent.

A young lady has applied to study mcdi' cine at Dunedin University College.

Buildings to tho value of £100,000 are now in course of erection in Auckland.

In a race against time at Tauranga on Monday, May 11, tho horse Tarn o' Shanter covered 18 miles in 48 minutes.

It was stated incidentally at the City Council that the present nett .revenue of the city is £60,000 per annum. The Hon. S. Stuart Wortloy and other English tourists are now visiting the Lakes, having gone thither by the overland route. The National Insuranco Company declare an interim dividend of 15 per cent, per annum.

Sixty candidates, 31 boys and 29 girls, have entered for the Government scholarships at Christchurch. This year there is tin increase in the students in all tho classes ut the Otago University College. The Invorcargill Chamber of Commerce resolved to ask the Government to make an experiment of ldw fares, on Mr Vaile's scheme, on the Bluff line. Thero will be in all over a thousand exhibitors in the Home Industry and Pine Arts Department of tho forthcoming exhibition at Wellington. On and after Sunday, June 7th, and until October 6th, a mail for England will be despatched by tho Now Zealand Company's steamers every fourth Sunday. The Orepaki Kailway near Invercargill, which is only 18 miles in length, and has been 11 years in construction, was opened for traffic on Tuesday, May 5. The Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company, Dunedin, pay a dividend of 2£ per cent, after paying off most of the preliminary and all Parliamentary expenses. Tho Christchurch Art Exhibition held recently has proved a financial success. Tho Art Society have a balance on the yenr's working of £95, as against £41 in 1884.

In a walking match at Christehureh on Saturday, May 16, for £C>o,and thochampionship of the colony, Hancock won by about 230 yards from Rayner, the Australian champion. At Reefton, Walter Williams, Chairman of Inangahua County Council, was unseated and fined £5 5s for having voted for a motion awarding himself a salary of £200 a year. There is some talk of a New Zealand football team visiting England. The cost would bo fully £3,000, but the Rugby Union of Great Britain would do all in their power to make the trip pleasant and successful.

Captain Jansen was presented on May 11 with a barometer at Kaiapoi, in recognition of the services rendered by him to the shipwrecked passengers and crow of the ship Lastingham, which came to grief in Cooks Strait in September last.

At Christchurch, on Monday, May 4, two cases of salmon ova, brought by Mr Farr, from England, were placed ia the hatching house, and found to ba in excellent condition, not more than two per cent, being bad.

A fre.sli complication has arises out of tlio Waring Taylor frauds. Some £12,000 worth of bank shares were transferred by the culprit to Rhodes's trust estate, and tho legateeß for whom the shares were held in trust now threaten to sue Mrs Rhodes for recovery.

At a recent native gathering afc Pukeurulie, in Mokau district, at which 2,000 Maoris were present, the burden of tho speeches was this—Let peace prevail, and let all fighting censo within this i3lnnd—l6t the Maori paople live on tenna of amity with the pakeha.

A circular has been forwarded to the various R»wing Clubs throughout New Zealand by the Wanganui Kegatta Committee, in which it is suggested that a Rowing Association for the colony should ba formed. The proposal is that each of the clulis should subscribe a small sum, Bay £18 n year, towards the fund 3, so that an annual regatta might be provided," good prizes give n, and plenty of competition assured.

Thnannual reportof thejColpnial Insurance Company shows tho income for the year was £55,662 Ss lOd, while the expenditure for the same period (including £8,684, appropriated losses) was £80,628 2s Id, leaving a credit balance of £6,034 6a 9d. Oat of this the directors recommend the payment of & dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, for the pait year on the paid-up, capital of the Company, which will absorb £5,000, and that; the balance, £1,034 65 9d, be carried forward to next year's acoount. - ' TII6 annual business meeting of the delegates and members of committee connected with the Band of Hope Union was held in *he Temperanco Hall, Albert-st., 15th inst. The report and balance-sheet was then reed by the Secretary (Mr Macdermott). The balance-sheet showed receipts, £155 5s lOd; expenditure, £74 14s Id. The numbers of tho Band of Hope members were :— Males, 1,526; females, 1,427: tot#, 3,053. There are twenty-three Bands of Hope in Auckland,

Hon. Tolg and Buckley, commissioners in the Bryce-Rusden case, returned to Wellington on the 16th Snst., having completed the taking of evidence at W'anganui. About forty witnesses were examined. It ia not improbable that the Commission will be resumed in Wellington, and medical evidence will be given as to the. exhumation ami examination of the remains of those who were alleged to be murdered. Mr Bryco has not decided whether he will go home, but if not, He will presont himself for examination in Wellington. Evidence has to reach London before November.

A Chrietchureh telegram states that the law examiners for the colony," Messrs J. S. Wesfcon and Judgje Smith, have just concluded the examinations for March last. There were 31 candidates all told, consisting of three solicitors previously admitted, three candidates for admission for barristers, and two Sor admission for solicitors. In addition to the fiftesn names formerly telegraphed, Messrs F. W. Skeet, of Gisborne, A. Gower, of Auckland (previously admitted as a soUtor), and Farnie, of Dunedin, have pass<«L The Chriatchurch Law Society's gold medal I for solicitors' papers has been awarded to :Mr l\ W. Skeot, and the Society's taroeer- | tilicates of merit for solictors tit Messrs i Louisson and Nicholson. The papers pre- ■ pared by the holders of prizes were of a very i upeiior character.

Tho annual meeting of subscribers to St. Stephen's Orphanage was held at the Home on Thursday, April 30 Sir G. M. O'Rorke presiding. The Hon. Secretary (Mr G. P. Pierce) read the annual report, which showed that there are now 87 inmates in the Home— i\ boys and 16 girls. During the year 20 were admitted, and 20 were removed by relatives while two wore sent to service. Fifteen of the children in tho Home are supported by tho Government. A portion of fifj Sauefbier's legacy has been devoted to the erection of a western wing to the Home. The inooms for the year amounts to £2,155 16b 4d, and the expenditure to £1,594 3s ?<* The Board have received £12,000 on account of tho bequest of the late Mr Costley, £11 300 of which is invested on mortgage, and *th& balance stands on deposit at interest Tho following report was presented at the annual meeting of the Onehunga Perpetual Land, Building, and Investment Society on Thmsday, April 30 :-The statement of ac counts forthepast year, now presented to the shareholders, again shows an increase in thl business of the Society. There has been a» increase in the number of investing shareholders, and a considerable increase in thn. amount invested. The amount of mosey on deposit, for whioh debentures have been issued, is more than doable that of the previous year. The sum to.the credit off depositors in the industrial branch is also, mack larger. After placing to credit 06 investors the sum of £1,959 0s Cd for i» terest at the rate of 8 per cent.; also the sum of £169 Uta 3d to*the rWvefund® paying intowst due depositors, and also all charges and expenses, there remains a sum o* «92 48 Id to the credit of profited , 0 " account, out of wbch your directors re< v, mend a bonus of four and a half per cent <•.' all shares entitled. *->="■.. uh

Th% Auckland Tobacoo Company is j Hßfe f» completing ltß migration from the factory in Fort-strcot to the more roomy and serviceable premises in the Beach Road where the now merged New Zealand Tol baccoCompanycarried on operations. ExtenRivoalterationsandjmprovemerits are coincidently being roade to the establißhment. The manufacture of plug tobacco will be carried w upon tao basement floor, and hers, too, will be the cutting and dW waking machines and scrarAmtters iSi driven by a powerful gas-engine. T n ' th» rear portion of this floor a hydraulic Draw ofapowerequalto^tonetothesquareincb Iwß"baen erected, and a screw preU is boini put up alongside it. Adjoining the p£nw The flnt floor comprises a dryingriom a stoci-room for manufactuiei goods, and a brgeroomfortheoigarandoigaritte makers On the second floor, about a down girls are acco. The third Boor s ü ße d M a ,L% J^p. for the raw leaf, * Bto*t