TOPICAL TITBITS.
A telephone office has been opened at Tawataia, Wellington district. The hours of attendance will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. At the district meeting of Foresters at Nelson it was decided to establish an Old Age Pension Fund. A committee was appointed to settle the tables and take an actuary's opinion. At the Congregational Union Conference the financial statement showed a debit balance of .£22. The railway revenue for Tasmania shows an increase of .£6OOO as compared with that of the preceding, year. The Wairarapa County Council have resolved to give no information to the Commissioner of Lands in answer to the fairrent ch'cular. ~ The Manchester Canal cold stores are completed. Accommodation is provided for 120,000 sheep. A brass name plate wrenched from the front of the Lyttelton Times office about four months ago has been found in the river Avon. "No bill" has been returned at Christchurch in the case of C. H. Wagstaff, charged with unlawfully wounding Charles Langdon. According to an exchange, one of the pupils of a State school in Hawke's Bay drew a knife the other day and attempted to stab the assistant master. Tenders are to be called for a bridge over the Koputeroa (Horowhenua East). An eight-roomed house and butcher's shop in Dunedin, at the corner of Arthur and Russell streets, has been burned. Instirances —£400 on building in Standard Office, and £l5O on furniture. Queensland has joined the other colonies in the cable guarantee. By the explosion of a magazine in a fort at Formosa 50 soldiers were killed. The Wellington Hospital Trustees have accepted the tender of Wm. Dawn for painting the outpatients' quarters at the Hospital, and that of Dixon and Heron for some other painting at the institution. The shipping returns at Auckland for the year show an increase, both in inward and outward vessels. The number of offences reported in the Wellington police district increased from 3080 in 1893 to 3313 in 1894. The number of cases of drunkenness decreased, but in most classes of serious offences there has been an increase.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1199, 22 February 1895, Page 18
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348TOPICAL TITBITS. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1199, 22 February 1895, Page 18
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