MISCELLANEOUS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 225, 1 October 1901, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

O I TAW A, Sept. 27. The death is announced of General Sir A. J. L. Fremanlle, G.C.MG., formerly Governor of Suakim and Malta, at the age of 66. B NEW YORK, Sept. 27. Harvard nnd Yale Universities beat Oxford and Cambridge by six events to three in athletic sports at New York. BRISBANE, Tbis Day The new Queensland loan is a balance of the sum for Publio Works authorised last yea 1- . __ ADELAIDE, Thia Day. The death is announced of Dr Way, brother of (lio Übief Justice and a well known Gynecologist (woman's doctor). MELBOURNE, This Day. A New Roman Catholio Cathedral has been opened at Bendigo. AUCKLAND, Sept. 27. , The balance sheet of the South British Insurance Company for the year ended August 31st shows a credit balance in working account of £33,373 10s sd, after adding £600 > Ito tbe reinsurance fund ; £20,000 is added to the reserve tend, and the direotors recommend the payment of a dividend for the second half-year at the rate of 2s 6d a share. v The Thermal Springs at Taupo are extremely active. The Crow's Nest Geyser, at Spa, is c ntinuously in eruption, giving a very magnificent display of geyser aoDUNEDIN, Sept. 28. At a meeting of the Queen's Memorial Fund Committee, subscriptions were stated to have totalled £2322. It was de- , cided to accept a design in marble of the iate Qaeen Victoria, with two figures and two panels in bronze, at a cost of i 52400 in Dunedin, subject to the plaster model meeting wiih approval. TIMARU, September 28. The Harbour Board to-day appointed Mr A. E. Austin, Jof Masterton, as Resident Engineer, at £400 a year. There were 35 applicants. WELLINGTON, Sept, 27. Mr Matthew Holme?, M.L.O. who died yesterday, had been more or less an in valid for some time, and hiß death, though comparatively sudden, was not therefore unexexpected. He arrived in the sixties, and immediately entered business 'as a pastoralist, gaining a wide reputation as a breeder of pedigree stook. He was appointed to the Legislative Council in 1866. Deceased leaves three sons and three daughters, one of tbe latter being the wife of Mr George McLean, M.L.C.