MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 142, 16 June 1888, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

•Mr J. McLean has been r.ppointed manager of the National Bank at Napier. Mr IV. Maskell has been elected President of the Wellington Philosophical Society. . There are now over 1,200 bodies buried nt Waikomiti.

Tiie third volume of J. White's "Ancient History of the Maori/ is being issued. M. Clement Thomas succeeds M. Nonet as Governor of New Caledonia. Mr W. L. Ilees leaves for England about Juno 18th to further his emigration scheme. Southland settlers are protesting against the importation of more stoats and weasels. During April there were 462 births and 197 deaths in the colony. The new notes of tho Bank of New Zealand aro now in circulation. The total railway revenue for the four weeks ending April 28th was £85,600. Major Walmsley, of the New Zealand Stud Company, ia buying horses for the Indian marked

A Berkshire sow, weighing 3101bs when cleaned, was on view at a Giaborne butchery recently. It has been decided to commence operations for the I'c-crcutiou of the Wellington Opera House almost immediately. Two hundred and fifty horses have been shipped from Wellington on the s.s. Tekapo for In'ia.

The Wellington brancli of the. Irish National Leaguo forward £100 by thi3 mail to the Lord Mayor of Dublin.

' During tin? season the Taranaki dairy factdry disposed of 50 tons of cheese at 4id f.0.b,, or 4d ab tho dairy. Hon. G. McLean, of Dunedin, denies thafc lie is hankering alter the AgcSnt-General-shin.

The New Zealand telegraph staff is probably among the best in the world, and is yet one of the most poorly paid in the Civil Service.

Canterbury Erossen Meat-Co. want a guarantee of 180,000 sheep per annum aba rate of freight Id per lb. Lord Re'dliaven, a retire it of Oamaru, Otago, succeeds to the title by the death of the Earl of Seaiield. The Wellington subscribers to the New Zealand Penny Dinner Fund have sent to England £25 for the poorest school children in London.

hi v Hamlin has jusbhadan analysis made by Dr. Hector of a sample of brown coal from tho Bombay district. The report is as follows :—" Fairly compact/; powder brown, non-caking in a gas flame, ash white." This is the same kind of brown coal that is found at Drury and Waikato.

Copper has been discovered near Oakura. Some specimens have been sent to Dr. Hector, who reports they contain, besides silver and copper, traces of arsenic sulphur and antimony. • The prospectors have pegged oil'a. claim, and intend to open tho reef to obtain a fairer insight as to the quantity and quality of the ore. The mw portion of St; Mary's Cathedral Church was opened on Thursday, June 7. The first lesson wua read hy the Rev. W. Burrows, and the .second by the Rev. C. M. Nelson. The Yen. Archdeacon then gave an eloquent discourse, taking for his text the words, " Who hath despised the day of small things ?" The Ktimo coal mine has started working again under the able management of Mi Geary and Mr Joseph Bell. The Whangarci mine is also putting out some very good coal at present. With two mines running and plenty of kauri gum to dig, there should be no lack of remunerative employment to be had during tho winter months for people who are used to that sort of occupation. The Government should en courage .settlement by giving every man or woman 10 acres of the best land about the gumlields to those who wish to make little homes for themselves, aba nominal rental for 21 years or longer.