MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 298, 23 December 1897, Page 8

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr Hcnniker Heaton advises Mr Smith that there is every probability of the English Parliamentary team visiting New Zealand, but nothing definite will be settled till March. Tlie New South Wales team's visit is deferred till next year.

Forty Lincoln rams were shipped by the s.s. Rotomahana at Lyttelton on Dec. 21 for transhipment to the s.s. Kaikoura at Wellington. They are bound for Monte Video, and have been shipped by the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, Mr Reid (of Elderslie) and Mr James Holmes.

A point of some interest under the Shops and Shop Assistants Act was decided in the Wellington S.M. Court on Dec. 20. An hotelkeeper who was charged with failing to give a barmaid a half-holiday pleaded that tbe girl was employed as a housemaid, and only went in the bar at night during a busy week. The magistrate held that the girl was a person employed in the bar within the meaning of the Act, and inflicted a nominal fine.

At the meeting of the Harbour Board on December 21st Mr Devore moved that the Board accept the offer of the Government to convey to the Board the old Admiralty House, and to pay the Board the sum'of £1,000 in cash, if the Board would undertake to erect a new house for the Admiral and furnish and maintain the same. Mr Devore considered, from enquiries he had made, that a large and SUltable house could be erected for from