NOTES AND NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 82, 9 June 1866, Page 3

NOTES AND NEWS.

We notice that an information has been laid against a person named Patrick Smith, practising as a surgeon in Dunedin, charging him with "pretending to .be and taking the name or title of doctor and surgeon, he not being duly registered UDder the Medical Practitioners Ordinance, 1864, or under the acts specified in the Schedule C to that Ordinance annexed." The New Zealand Gazette contains the

appointment of Messrs. Charles Knight, Wm. G-isborn, William Seed, and James Major Spence, as Commissioners to inquire into the clerical strength and efficiency of the several departments of the public service. The Wanganui Chronicle announces the arrival of the p.s. Sturt 3 bringing upwards of 70 of our colonial troops, made up in about equal proportions of Wanganui Yeomanry Cavalry and Taranaki Bush Rangers. They come from Opotiki, and are intended ultimately for settlement at Waingongoro. They are the first arrivals of three hundred who are to be located in thePatea district. After a stay of two or three days, they will march to their destination, and it is very likely, we presume, as those settlers take up their several positions, that the British troops stationed in that quarter will be brought into Wanganui. A Riverton correspondent of the S. Times under date 19th May, sajs : — " I have heard of transactions in the purchase of shares in a claim on the Pahi diggings, ranging from £10 to £30; and also the fact of one party making £15 per man for their week's work. There are undoubtedly some very good claims." John Talbot, the well-known Guerney swindler, has just discovered an instrument for opening letters by a shave-slip, and then by a magic sweep of gum and pressure the letter as as perfect as ever. The Quebec News says: — "Innumerable letters have thus lately had their contents abstracted, especially remittances from Europe to the United States. Dore, the young and celebrated French artist, has just made a contract which secures him the immense sum of 16,000f. for illustrating an edition of Shakspere. From a lecture recently delivered at St. Leonard's, Sydney, by Mr. Mortimore, we learn that the orangeries of New South Wales have for some years past been hastening to decay through the false system of culture adopted, by planting the trees in holes, instead of properly cultivating the whole of the adjoining ground. Independent of the oranges consumed in the colony, the value of the fruit exported last season from Sydney was £40,000.