BY THE WAY.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 299, 22 June 1897, Page 3

BY THE WAY.

God save tbe Queen ! Universal celebrations to-day. Hooloy intends to buy out frozen meat companies. Hooley want to buy up next ? We can sell him a nice fat Premier and an unbroken Minister for Lands, cheap. Southland Hospital Victoria wing subscriptions total £1094 7s Cd. Mr Eddy, Chief Railway Commissioner of New South Wales, died at Brisbane yesterday. Over a quarter of a million carcases of rabbits were sent by one steamer from Lyttelton the other day. Early to bed aud early to rise won't make a man happy who don't advertise. The linotype machine is to be simultaneously introduced into three of the paper offices in the colony. The Fitzroy (Victoria) Ministers' Association have entered a strong protest against free beer being supplied in connection with the dinners to thej poor**during the Record Reign celebrations. The London ' Financial Times ' pays its editor (once a sub. of an Australian daily) £3000 a year. The net profits of the this paper for 1896 ran into £41,909. In Western Australia they have just decided to restrict the importation of dogs. Whereupon a Coolgardie paper unkindly published the news under the heading " Restriction on the German sausage trade." The Estates Company of West Bromwioh = Town Council recommends that iv consideration of the long services rendered by Mr William Finch, cemetery superintendent, he be granted a space at the cemetery for a grave for himself, and also that a burial grant be sealed in respect of it. In Chambers at Dunedin, on Saturday, the case Bank of Bank of New Zealand v. Walter Guthrie and Co., Limited, was set down for hearing on Ist July.