BY THE WAY.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1170, 16 April 1903, Page 2

BY THE WAY.

Mr Kinsella, chief dairy expert of this colony, has accepted the position of principal dairy expert in the Transvaal. Excavations for the erection of a fifteenstory building on the site of the old home of Captain Kidd, the pirate, at New York, aw expeoted to reveal buried treasures. Professor Monimsen, the aged German historian, who recently met with an aoeident by setting fire to bis hair, was a few days later knocked down by a cab in Berlin. The Parliamentary pionic party to the South Sea Islands left Auckland last night. A marble bust of the late Sir John MeKrazie, ordered from Pegram, a well-knowm sculptor, has arrived and will be placed in the Parliamentary Library. It cost 150 guineas. TheNspier Borough Oounoil last evening < voted tbe Mayor an honorarium of *2o<r,V" It was deoined to take a plebiscite of the ratepayers on tbe question of the municipalisation of gas supply and tbe purchase of the present company's plant Two cargoes of 'Frisco wheat, aggregating 184,000 bushels, and 0000 bags of flour, arrived at Melbourne on Tuesday. There are upwards of 150 raspberry plant, ations in the Motuoka district, the largest being 25 acres. In the Texas Senate a proposal has been made to tax all dukes, lords, and counts, rati orfradulent, in order to protect the young women of Texas. Messrs Morrow, Bassett and Co. have just landed another shipment of the famuua Daisy Carta. Intending purchasers should send in their orders at ouoe. l'rioe, £lllos —Advt.)