MISCELLANEOUS

Northern Advocate, 30 June 1888, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS

Visitors staying at G. Loram's Commercia 1 Hotel Whangarei week ending June 29th:— Messrs Wigg, Nolan, Mowbray, Tallas, Foster, Davis, Clark, Reed, Simpson, Lynch, Bust, Linnell, Martin, Donovan, Spencer, Solomoni, Meldrum, Foot, Warn, Aubrey, Grimshaw, and Major Walmdey, Mr and Mrs Smales and family, Mr and Mrs Hughes and family, Mr and Mrs Rawiisley. Through representations made by the Jubilee S.S. Coy,, a permanent light is to kept at Marsden Point Wharf. We would call attention to the telegram received from tho honourable member for Marsden. It will be seen that it affects this fruitgrowing district and will be viewed with interest by many. Tenders are wanted for taking out coals at the Kamo colliery, and delivering into railway waggons. We would call attention to our advertising columns, wherein it will be seen that particular wool- workers are in onr midst. We have personally inspected the articles made by the ingeniously constructed machines now working at Mr Spcdding's establishment, in Cameron Street, and were pleased as well as surprised to see tho numerous useful articles which are turned out there. It is worth a visit. We hear that the Kamo Choral Society will resume their practice on Monday evening next. At Christchurch on Sunday the police have received information that a human leg, with a boot on, was found on the beach three miles north of New Brighton this afternoon. The Southland Estates Company of New Zealand, with a capital of £185,000, has been registered. It is reported that Baron De Lesseps, who is at present supervising the construction of the Panama Canal, is dead. The report however, lacks confirmation. At Christchurch on Sunday a memorial in honour of the late Emperor Frederick was held this morning in the Cathedral, which was draped in black. There was a very largo congregation, including the Mayor and City Councillors and a considerable number of Germans. The Dean of Christchurch preached the sermon. At Wellington the Divorce Court was occupied on Saturday with hearing the cases of Wilkinson v. Wilkinson, Moelle'r, and Soufflot v. Sufflot. In each instance i t was on the wife' s petition for dissolution of marrajge on the grounds of her husband's cruelty and adultery. The Chief Justice granted a decree nisi ah each case. •'•(' r' At Wanganui. a flve-roomfl&l housej, situated at Dini-town, owned and occupied ,by Mr. J. Campebll, was burnt down Sunday night. The insurances on the house are £150 in the Norwich Union, and £60 in the Liverpool, London, and Globe, and on the furniture £150 in the Colonial. The fight to a finish between Murphy and Molloy, for £25 a-side and .the light weight championship, was won by Murphy. On Saturday at Dunedin. W. Thomson, a well-known ex-publican, fell over a bank thirty feet high on Saturday, at Dunedin, and was severely injured, unconscious for some time. Hopes of his recovery are entertained. Edward Landarf, a passenger for Melbourne by the Mararoa, W as arrested at the Bluff on Sunday, by Sergeant Fickle, on a Dunedin warrant, charged with obtaining goods under false pretences. He will be remanded north tomorrow. The Bluff police deserve credit for having arrested three runaways in as many weeks. Mr James Ho well, an eminent American mining expert, arrived in Auckland by the Alameda on Saturday, and will remain for a month. It will be recollected that some time ago Mr Wilson of Broken Hill fame, purchased a very large interest in the property of the Te Aroha Battery Company and adjoining mining property, he sent for Mr Howell to come and advise as to the best and most suitable class of machinarv and plant for the treatment of the ores. Dr Howell will proceed to Te Aroha to-day to spend some time there testing and examining the ores, after which he will proceed to Australia to advise in a similar manner as to the best plant suitable for the ores of that colony. The girl Elizabeth Beeston, who was severely injured by burning at the shirt Factory, Great North Boad, wbo was sent to the hospital, has succumbed to her injuries, having died yesterday morning. It will be remembered that deceased was warming glue at the fire when her dress caught the flames, and before they could be extinguished she was terribly burnt about the back and legs. Dr. Mackellar was called in i and did what he could to relieve her sufferings. i and then ordered her to be sent to tbe Hospital She has suffered very keenly since, and yesterday died. It is not yet decided whether an inquest is necessary.