News Items.

Colonist, Volume XXXII, Issue 5584, 28 August 1889, Page 4

News Items.

Sats Mr Bichard Opa3:~ \ Three y^ara in: Parliament "will nse, bp the beßfc of coUßcienoea in cnaation. 1

A resident of the Deuiliqaio district baa invented an ingenious pieea of mechanism for the instantaneous attaohmont and detachment of horses to and from vehicles. The value of the invention is ebtimated by the fortunate possessor of it at no haa a sum than £36,000 a year.

A Children's Homo has been at Maaganui. Tba house lias been built by Mr J, Smith, a resident, at a ooet of .£l5O and will be rei-t-.toe for three years, at the end cf which period it vrill be handed over to the trustees for half the cost. There is accommodation for 100 children.

An Arkansas girl refused to marry hsr lover unless he performed some heroio deed. He eloped with her mother,

THsKapier •Telegrph' thinks the proceedings of the present bobsioij sufficient reason for reducing tbe number of member 3 not only to 74, • Perhaps thirty men could be found bat to 80. Our eoLtsmporary says : ia New Zealand to sit in Parliament without making fools of tbemsslvds,'

The steamer Lawrence has been purchased ia Sydney on behalf of tbe Mokihiom Coal Company lor the Wellington Mokihinm trade. As showing the improved condition of affairs, 257 new account 3 were opened in the Auckland Savings Bank for the month of July, representing all claasGa 0! labour and trade. Fiftyseven married women, 25 siugle women, and six widows are among the new depositors.

His Imperial Majesty Nasr-ed-Deeu has a mascot; a little boy of five or sis years, who dresses iv purple and gold ami acoompani°s the Shah everywhere to protect him from misfortune, Baliabat has famished the latest musical prodigy. Her name h Miss Maud Wilsos. She is aged 10, and is tbe daughter of Mr James Wilson, a gentleman of independent means. The little girl has shown bo much musical talent that her father has been advised to send her to the Berlin Gonservatorium.

It is reported that when Princess Louiae of Wales received the Queen's formal eousent to her marriage, she threw her arms rousd her Koyal grandmother's neck, and said. l Oh, I'm ao glal you've let ma marry Fife ; we've loved one another for ever so long; and, besides, I didn't waut to be toade to mmy one of those poor OUrm&n ptiyees.

A retcbs laid on the table of the Hotide in reference to tbe three priucipal village settlements in the North shows that £6,051 has been expended on ths Three Kings settlers, who originally took up 125 ssctions, of which only seventy-nine were still oeonpied on let of May laai; that the Motukarakara settlement has cost tbe colony £2,225, and oat of sixty throo origital settlers only forty three re maia; aud that the expenditure in locating seventy-two settlers at Pumakatere was £2,899, and only forty selectors still occupy their sections.

Tbm Boglish farmsra aro said to havo stopped grumbling. Their crops aad thei? prospects aro both good, and both the landlord? and the Government get the bentfit of their good fortnne. Agriculture, bo ;ong believed by croakers to be doomed, mives. Never was euoh an Agricultaral show in England as that of this wsok at Windsor, wbather for quantity or for quality. I asked an American enthusiast who had been there what lhara waa to see? ' Well,' he answered;' there are eighl miles of pigs.' On these, &^d on the cattle, horses, dairy products, and dairymaids, the Bug, the Qaaen, ths rest ©1 the Royal family, and fcuntJreds of thoasanda &f the Briiish poblic, have ell the weak baen smiling.