TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.
The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon, now in Australia, will not visit New Zealand on this occasion, but hope at a later date to visit this colony. At a meeting of the Melbourne Exhibition Commissioners on Friday, ife was stated that Mr T Brydone, manager of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, will exhibit grain, grass seed, cheese, butter, and also cattle at the agricultural show, and will endeavour to make a good show of the 1888 clip of wool. The Hon. Minister of Public Works has authorised the free carriage of exhibits over the New Zealand railways. The Hon. Minister of Mines has offered the commissioners the loan of any specimens of New Zealand minerals in the Mines department, and all information will be afforded. The question of permitting persons to hold Evangelistic servicesin the Auckland public parks has cropped up. Onepreacher,onbeingchallenged by the custodian to show his authority, replied that he had it from the Lord. The custodian collapsed and asked the City Council for in* structions.
It is stated that Mr D. A. Tole, of Auckland, is not the only chief commissioner of Crown lands whose services are about to be dispensed with on the score of economy, Mr J. P. Maitland, of Dunedin, haying also received notice of the termination of his engagement at an early date.
It is understood that applications for the office of chief commissioner of New Zealand railways are now being invited both in London and America, and that it is not intended to do anything towards the selection of the two assistant commissioners until the chief commissioner has been appointed. It is said that possibly they may be chosen from among past or present officers of the department. Considerable retrenchment is being quietly effected, so it is stated, in the police force— not by dispensing with the services of auy of the men, but by refraining from filling up vacancies as they occur, rearranging the distribution, and closing a number of small stations in places where a resident policeman is not required. Gabriel Hedley, town clerk at Devonport (Auckland) and secretary of the Devonport Ferry Co., is missing since Friday night. His hat and stick were left in the ferry waiting room. The harbour has been dragged without result. It is believed ho has gone to Fiji, and domestic troubles are said to be the cause. His books are all right. The annual meeting of the North New Zealand Woollen Co. (Auckland) was held on Monday. The report showed a profit of £190 7s 4don three months' actual operations. Roman Ronoswitz, a farmer residing near Blenheim, has been committed for trial on a charge of stabbing a labourer named Jeremiah Twohey, at Fairhall, on the Ist inst.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1890, 10 February 1888, Page 18
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