MISCELLANEOUS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 317, 21 December 1906, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

troller-General of tho Commercial, Labour, and ' Statistical Jvpartment of tho i Board of Trado, has • Biiccoeded Sdr 'XVancis Hoi>g'jod as I Pei'inanent Secretary of the Uourd of Trade. A 'mating of th" tihoati'toal j'l'O^ fessioii held iu London reij'\e>l u) I erect- a StuiUe IO the iiienintj.- Ot the 'late Sir Hciiry ii : vin^; Mfthagtfr»,'.'®ct^rs, atiiresSes; Siid dvrimiitic 'aUtHtirS mi ljb.6 .JJliitett Kiflgdbm tod America are inviled to participate; Miss Ellen Terry is ; lna{*g & Ndtlb-nftl ftv-% Mem-lrittl 1 In thg-form bf, a- .museum; 'iibi'ah', ! and pictiu^e gajWy. '• ' j The Government will appoint a Select . Committee . 'to consider ■ ilia proposals einbSiiiod by. tha Bbrlin 1 Cbiivehtiqri ' bn. t-aditi-telogliaphy, befdf'e ratiilßaiib'Si [ ' 1 LONDON,! Thursday. The South., -African .footballers defeated Sirrey b^" 33 'points to nil: MELBOURNE, Thursday, j Arrived — Brhuley, -from New Yorki 1 - SYDNEY', Thursday, i Sailed, at 2.30— 5.5. Maheno, for Lyttelton. Mr Carruthers, State Preiniei', pro'posea to tnko a holiday ' oaiij; next year to visit the North Ifr> '" land'of New Zealand only. AUCKLAND, Thursday; The total bdtput fi'dirt ttte Auckland golflfiolda for tho paSt ; throe 'weeks totals £11i,672 ; a re- ; Bord fbr Such a periad, and brlngIflgr tHe goltl -won tb date this year •to : £i;Si3,S4b- in value. I a few returns t6 come ai'e in; this j-ear should show an increasq on '1.905 of about £200.000, ■ THb RByal Oak Goldniin ng Company tributbrs crushod 15 tons of ■ -tlirf -and 300IHs of "Stone fbr 320 | ouiioes of JttelttKl gold, of the apV proximate' valiie "of £8G0: ' .. ,iep»l«TCHtJßtia; Wednesday. : Therb is great scarcity of labour : on tho Pcnhtsiiia I[op 'the cocks- .' foot harvest. Ma'hj paddocks aro j; nearly ripe, but no men are ' ajt= I ! iJlylrigi • j Th«fo is- gix-at dlsous.sion tn '. Christchuroh as ta closing the ITx-■hibi-tion on Christmas Day. The concessionaires in •' the Exhibition, it open, will be able to sell their wares all day, n-hilo the 'townspeople will be compelled to close. Mi' Munro, Mana/gtr, suggests 'ck.sing- til] 2 p.'in.,.aml says thrit the Dunsdin Exhibition did 'not observe Christmas l)ay by closing. DUNEDIN, Thurslay. The body of B. Smith, supposed to be a Naval Reservist, working on 'the Pioneer, ,was found in the I upper -haTbour this morning. GORE, Wodneriday. Heavy rain vSL-t mat G o'clock j this morning, <an'd has continued j since : with a. prospect of more, j Farmers are julrilaiH, as 'on the : Hgbter lands and ridges they had j bwn Ipreparing 'to turn tiuxip , into Uie crops.' The 'rain will savo most oi these crops. WELLINGTON, Thursday. Killing of the Paradise .duck 'has been prohibited for a year from j April 25uli next. 1 j Messrs J. E. .Toyn-t and E. Tiv- J i Rear have ibeon appointed 'Governors of the New Zealand Institute. The New Zealand Rugby 'Union is offej-ine a substantial guarantee for a visit to New Zealand of 'a teaim of Rugby footballers representing the American Universities. The New 'Zealand Union suggests that ten matches be played in tho colony between April Bth. and May 10th\ At a meeting of the Gear Moat Company to-night a dividend of ■four per cent lor tiho half year, wiUJ a -bonus of two per cont, was declosod. *VH<} Chairman sa <1 t'he result of the ■Ch-ic&jro -disclosures Jiatl bevn, so far as iGrea:t Britain is concerned, o complete cessation 'of the j demand for tinned ' <.yocls of any | kind, , ■ ■ j