NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8708, 2 February 1894, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

(BBESS ASSOOIATIOK TIXEGBiMS.) -fCKI_AI_O, February 1. __rM. O'-Wlce, Okirnmu of ihe tin!, versity Council, telegraphed to the Premier to-day desiring to know : how affairs stood re tbe appointment of Professor., but haa not as yet received any reply. - YVEi_L___;--TOJ_". February 1.

A block oi land in. the Marina district, containing 8320 acres, has been set apart for (.election by the Midland Kail way Company. One of the Niw Zealand Times machines is being driven by an electric motor, said to be the first applied to a printing press south of the line. Another printing establishment in town ia also fitting a similar motor. At the annual meeting of the Gas Com.pany, a dividend at the rate of eleven per cent, per annum was passed. The Chairman, in his address, said that they had no reason to fear the competition of the electric light, as it had been proved in older conutries that the two systems could run side by side. A body found in the harbour this morning is believed to be tbe missing seaman West of the ship Blenheim. The customs revenue, which is usually! available for the Press on the first of the month, was tefused to-day, the department explaining that it had a Ministerial minute that no information concerning the revenue was to be divulged. ~ Capt. Babot has received a cable message from the Shaw, Savill Company, London, saying that the ship Jessie Readman is not to be sold pending further instructions. The Te Aro goods shed question, which has been in abeyance some time, is to be resuscitated. Tne City Council to-night appointed a Committee to approach the Harbour Board with a view to pressing the matter on the Government. The Terranora has not picked up the cable yet, but is at White's Bay testing from that end. The trials from this end locate the break ; between twenty and twenty-one miles from here, and this is being verified. At a meeting of the Trust and Loan Company tbe report and balance-sheet passed, except that whereas the Directors recommended that the vacancy caused by Mr Levin's death should not be filled up, Mr Kobbell said he would stand for it, and was DUNEDIN, February 1. Up to the present only some.ninety appli- ;| cations have been received for reinstatement on the electoral rolL