BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 8408, 8 January 1891, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

Geraldine (South Canterbury) is to have a newspaper of its own. Mr ,F. Pirani is tke new proprietor of the Palmerston ‘Times,’

The laying of the new cable through the Red Sea has been completed. Preparations are being made for laying another cable between Aden and Bombay, and a third line of cable between Madras and Penang is ready to be put down. The new cable tariff would come into operation much sooner if the Agents-General were instructed to sign agreements with the Cable Company. Cargoes of Australian wheat, to arrive during January and February, have been sold at 37s 6d.

The petition from Invercargill protesting against farther appointments to the Legislative Council bears 1,094 signatures, and a

similar petition in Dunedin was signed by 3,500 persons. It is anticipated that for the whole of Otago 8,000 signatures will be received.

A syndicate, of which Mr David Oppenheimer is the head, is being formed, with a capital of L 500.000 sterling, to take over and work all the antimbny mines in New South Wales and Victoria. QVe from the mines will be treated by a new process. The Union Bank of Australia declared a dividend of 14 per cent, and carried L 16,000 forward to next year.

A communication from Moscow was read at the City Council last evening, addressed to “ His Excellency the Lord Mayor of Dunedin,”

Mr Fish is of opinion that there will be two sessions of Parliament this year—one in January and one in April.

Mr Carroll thinks that he will be able to deal as satisfactorily with his mayoral salary of L4OO as with the other duties pertaining to the office. The next Chess Congress is to bo held in Auckland or Christchurch.