BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 10340, 14 June 1897, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

The application of Mr A. Gray, solicitor, of Wellington, to set aside the writ of James Carson has been further adjourned. The Wellington correspondent of the 4 Lyttelton Times' telegraphs that it is intended to dress the telegraph messengers in kharkee uniforms with maroon facings. The telegraph boys in Wellington will be the first to be dressed it this striking garb, and subsequently those in the other centres will be similarly apparelled. At an extraordinary meeting of shareholders in the ' New Zealand Times' Company a resolution that the capital of the company be increased by the creation of 20,000 preference shares tt £1 each was carried. The holders of preference shares are to be entitled to a cumulative preferential dividend of 8 per cent, on the capital paid up on such shares, and if the profits are more than sufficient for the preferential dividend the holders participate in the surplus pari passu with the other shareholders.

6q investigation the governors of the Royal Caradian Humane Association have decided to award a bronze medal to Daniel Sitkelachi, of the Indian village of Wyah Nitinat, Vancouver Island, for conspicuously brave conduct in rescuing the captain and crew of ten men of the American fontroasted schooner Puritan, of Bonilla Point, on the west coast of Vancouver (aland. The rescue was made in a most ingenious manner at great peril. One of the most marvellous printing machines yet constructed is that used in the production of the San Francisco ' Examiner.' The press turns out 40,000 twelve • page papers per hour, with (he two outside pages printed in four colors ana two inside in two colors!. The papers are turned out folded, stapled, and counted in lots of twenty-five <r fifty. Tin; machine weighs seventy tons, and takes up a space about 22ft long, 12ft wide, and 13ft high. ~