MISCELLANEOUS.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 104, 30 May 1885, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The " unemployed " difficulty has cropped up at Grey mouth. Dunedin Board of Education has fixed 200 cubic feet aa the minimum allowance of space for each child. Wellington is the city of marital infelicity. Two more divorce cases are pending; there. Professor Tucker, of Auckland, has been appointed Professor of Classics in Melbourne University. He may not accept. The Thames " Star" the other day, in a fit of forgetfulness, remarked that the people of that district " were proverbial for their diffidence iv asking for a share of public expenditure." Where was the sturdy beggar ! Alex. Spiers, a steerage passenger by the Kaikoura, has recovered £100 damages at Dunedin from the Company, for injuries received by the falling on him of the steerage ladder. The Hon. the Minister of Lands considers that the recent results of lands offered tinder the system of perpetual leases in Auckland were very satisfactory for a first attempt. Greymouth Harbour Board will, it is expected, go in for heavy expenditure on breakwater and retaining wall. At next meeting it is proposed to call for tenders for work estimated to cost £50,000. The war scare has not subsided in Australia. At Newcastle lately, the captain of a steamer reported that he had exchanged signals with a Russian gunboat six miles north-east of Sydney. The Minister of Lands has refused the land asked for at Te Aroha as a site for a cheese and bacon factory. It is required for railway purposes. Mr Henry Neville has been engaged to support Modjeska as leading man in Australia and New Zealand. Who can stop the Russian advance in Afghanistan ? " Who can ? Why Abdurrahman Khan !" There are nDw 140 members in JSt. John's Ambulance Association, Christchurch. Mr K. T. Booth's mission at Dunedin is closed. Net result, 5,500 pledges and 8,500 » blue ribbons taken. Gerald Massey's advice to the clergy— ! "Go home,you foolish teachers, played-out preachers, hell-fire screeohers, go home 1"