MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 4 October 1907, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.

, [United Pbess Association. — Cu_-y BlGlll.] LONDON, Thursday. Loul Curzon has issued an appeal for at least a quarter of a million to assist tho needs ot Oxford l.'niversity. The Government has purchased for £30.000 the Invcrliver Estate, in Ar gylshirp, with a view to attempting experimental timber-growing. PRETORIA, Thursday. Under LuU out of 1300 Asiatics in the Transvaal havo registered under tha new registration ordina.xr. \V. P. Crick has obtained leave tn I appal lv the l'rivy Council against the decision of the Full Court striking him otl the rolls of solicitors. AUCKLAND, Thursday. A 14 days' campaign for a new and up-to-date building for the local branch of tho Young Men's Christian Association begins next Monday. The amount miuired is £15,000. WANGANUI, Thursday. At the Police Com- tto-day, Hugh McLean ,of Ohakune, was fined £50. or in default three months' imprisonment, for sly-grog selling. WELLI NOTON, Thursday. The Women's Students' Hostel Society lias appointed Mrs Thornton, < f Dunedin, to be Lady Principal of the hostel for collec-p students, which i.s to be opened here early next year. The price of bread is to be raised iv Welington to Id per 21b loaf, -..jip-nu-ncing next Monday. Mr Keir Hardie, MP., will be the guest of the Mayor of W-.l'inpl...n during his stay in this c-ty. It is ex- I pected he will reach Au i.l.md from I Australia on November 7:1) 1