MISCELLANEOUS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 63, 26 March 1904, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS

LONDON, Yesterday. ! The King ordered Roberts' picture of. Lbo oponing of tho Femoral Parliament to' bo oxb bitei at the Royal Academy. Tho Marqui3 of Linlithgo* and Lord Tonny-. son will present the picture to tho Kin I in the autumn, " ''olonel Sir Edward Wni\l (? Colonel C. E. Warde, M.P.) ha-a boon appointed Secretary to tho War Oifico, iind Pir Guy Fleet wood AV-ijor* nss director *>f nrtny finance.. T!ir> new Cunard liiicrs, which have )eon fitted w ith turbine engines, are expected to cross tho Atlantic Ocean in lour days HOBAItT, Yesterday. The no* iliisrilnp Kuryalus h;is arrived. MELBOURNE, Yesterday flio Rifle Association has abandoned tho idea of sending 1 an Australian toara to Bialey, owing to lack of encouragement from the Federal Minister for Dufonco. SYDNEY, Yesterday. Arrived at 1 p.rn, s s Mokaoi. The tost matches between Taylor and MacFarland are declared off, the latter refusing to race Taylor without assigning any reason AUCKLAND, Yesterday. Mr Hutchison, S.M., . who has been transferred to New Plymouth, presided over the Auckland Court for the last time to day. He was farewollod by the iuckland Bar to-day, Mr T. Cotter, President of the Law Society, speaking highly of the mannor in which Mr Hutchison had discharged his duties on tho bench. At the inquest on the boy Stanley Bcnnutt killed iv a lilt accident, ovidonco was given that Bennett was badly jolted in the ambulance waggon on tho way to the Hospital, but the medical evidence) was to tho effect that tho accideut was in itself fatal. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and added a rider strongly condemning the ambulance waggon as unsuitable. A Koyal Commission ha 3 been appointed to inquire into tho matter of do-> fining river limits within tho meaning o f tho Shipping and Seamen's Act. Tho Commission cponed today, tho Commissioners being Captain Bollons. of tho I Gorernniont steamer Ifincmoa, and Captain HauUain, of tho Northern Cum,pan>'d service. Evidence was laken us to I weather experienced on tho trip from I (iucilmd to Whangarei, and the CoinJ uiiesiou acljjuruod till to-morroiv. } PALMER3TON N., This Day. By a fico at Turakina, at tho beginniug of the wsok, tlio railway station and BtationmAßter'& ros.denco wero totally destroyed. Tbo whole of tho station booka and documents were saved. The hotel adjoiiig had a narrow escape, and was considerably damaged. The cost of replacing tho building dostroyod is esti-« mated at £KX)U.