BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 11454, 23 January 1901, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

<& ft Dr Solf, German Governor of Samoa, is | expected to pay a visit, to Auckland next g month. He will probably make a trin to | the Hot Uke.s. ' l f\ The Auckland Liberal Association are i.rwith a view to secure the return tjuf capable men from the workers at tlie \ municipal elections. % Monday night's rainfall during the storm |repnrted from New South Wales wa»s the greatest, on record. It. fell at the rate of |B|in an hour. At Camden s.Jin fell in on % hour and a-half. i The A 7 ictorian Ministry have entertained p Mr Seddon and other visiting New Zeajj landers at luncheon at Parliament House. A The petition against- the election of Mr Lough IL.) for West. Islinglon (London) s|hns been dismissed, and Mr Lough declared Sduly elected. 1 During the hearing of the industrial dis|pute in the iron trade yesterday Mr J. Spargrow said mechanical engineering did not pay lin Dunerlin. Nearly all the engineerinir atirms that were in existence here in 18887 Hhad gone bankrupt, a.nd although there was! |so much work doinj; now the trade did not! |pay. He himself had not made £SOO rut |of seven dredges which he had built. Jt M was also mentioned by other employers! that a crood deal of work was going amit. of the colony, that dredges aZealand were being made in America, and! 9that a syndicate was being formed in Wel-j Hlington for the purpose of getting dred"esj amade in Germany. " j 1 | The London Board of the New Zealand SjCoal and Oil Company have called to the jjiloeal Board the following well-known citiIzens : —Messrs Alexander Burt. C. L. Denjgniston, and W. L. Simpson. These gentleijmen, witli Mr J. Sinclair Thomson, one of | the company's attorneys, will constitute the jgßoard during Mr Brydone's absence from |the colony. Mr Brydone will resume his | seat on the Board on his return. The com- | pany's extensive works at Orepuki will be j in operation within six weeks, and already | numerous inquiries have been made for their S yarious products. | The Mormon emissaries from Salt Lake City who visited Temesvar, in Southern I Hungary, met with such a warm reception | that they have abandoned their missionary J enterprise. | Some years ago Mr Kipling wrote to Major Pond a letter on the old subject, of lecturing I j'There is such a thing,'' wrote Mr "as paying a hundred and twenty-five cents* Ifor a dollar, and though I suppose there is! 'money in the lecturing business, it seems toi jme that the bother, the fuss, the being.at! |eyerybody's beck and call, the night journeys! |and so on, make it very dear. I have seen a! Sfew men who lived through the fight, but' Sthey did not look happy." j