BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXIX, Issue 204, 19 August 1893, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

I . Dobins the past month 1,736 acres foi perpetual lease, and 1885 acre 3 for ocoupation with the right of purchase were diapoßed of m Auckland. The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2.956.000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,308,000. The cargoes of wheat ex larqusa Woodville and Willowbnnk, from Lyttelton, sold m London at 27s 6d. At the inquest on Simpson, who fell out of the top Btorey window of the Railway Terminus Hotel, Auckland, a verdiot of accidental death was returned. Yesterday the police at P .lmerston North arrested Geo. Harper, who escaped from Wanganui gaol two months ago. He was arrested m the Cafo de Paris Hotel disguised with black whiskers and eyelashes. The total number of diggers on the kauri gumfields is 5897, of which 577 are Austrians, and their average earnings are 27a per week. The Ashburton Mail (Major Steward's paper) declares against the continuation of education boards and m favor of strengthening and enlarging the powers of committees. A wine and spirit firm m New Plymouth rejoices m the misnomer of " Coldwater Brothers." A Masterton Prohibitionist has resolved to send no more telecrams because on the back of the forms "Dawson's Perfection whiskey " is advertised. The local Herald says that a European woman residing m Napinr has been afflicted with leprosy for some time. A nonagenarian writes strongly m the Press against the Temperance agitation and agitators to stop his grog. He says, "I am now n°arly ninety years of age, and I think it very hard that my life should be shortened to please weak-minded teaaops." " What are the things that touch nemost a3 we look back through ths years ?" asked a lady lecturer impressively. There wa3 a moment's awful pause, and then a small boy m the audience answered, iiOur clothes." Of the 324 419 females m New Zealand, 31,872 have been induced by energetic canvassers to ask fnr electoral privileges. The remaining 292.947 have not, we may assume, the slightest dusire to become electors and vote m opposition to their husbands, their fathers, and their brothers. „, ..