CHIT-CHAT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 9966, 31 March 1894, Page 2

CHIT-CHAT.

PITHY, POLITICAL, AND PERSONAL PARS. A fine autumnal morning. The weather is beginning to get chilly early and late. Thermometer in the shade under " the verandah "at 2 p.m. to-day 68 degrees ; in the sun in front of office, 10-i Fifty-third anniversary of the settlement of Taranaki. Banks take a holiday accoidingly. Annual balancing day at all the banks through the colony. Miss M. J. Hare who in Wellington said "I won't" instead of "I will" was married on Friday at 10 a.m. Captain Edwin predicts very bad weather between Monday night and Wednesday. Emperors of Austria and Germany have had a very cordial meeting. An American lady journalist has arrived from Frisco for the purpose ot writing up New Zealand. Mr George Darrell the well known dramatist and actor arrived by the 'Frisco steamer in Auckland on Friday. Ten ventilated Railway cars tor carriage of dairy produce from New Plymouth to Wellington are being made at Petone. Wellington Industrial and Provident Co-operative Society is to be wound up. Victorian scheme for lending cheap money to farmers is proceeding apace. Cases of breach of "Dairy Act," in Wellington, not stamping butter boxes, have resulted in defendants being fined £5 and costs. Two of the Czar's sons shown symptoms of pulmonary weakness. Mandarin double oranges for betrothal gifts are getting a craze in England. The Government dairy expert in London thinks there is a good market for frozen poultry in England. A youilg woman named Alice Smith has been committed for trial in Sydney for burglary. Russian iieet is going to visit Stainboul. Sir George Grey will have an audience with the Queen on his arrival Home. The " burns" in the bush country between here and Wellington have been exceptionally good this summer. A demand for bush felling during the coming winter may be looked forward to. Marriage of Grand Duke of Hesse to Princess Victoria of Coburg, will be most brilliant wedding of recent times. The Mayor of Onehunga (Mrs Yates) was addressed by a councillor the other evening a " Missus." Young Men's Christian Association, of Melbourne, had to relinquish tenancy of its fine pile of buildings. Can't find money to pay mortgage. Captain Meades, late of steamer Wanaka, is in New Plymouth. Over fifty passengers went by Glenelg on excursion trip to Kawhia on Friday night. The express train brought a large number of passengers last night. Busy scene at railway station. King of Italy opened the Medical Congress in Rome on Wednesday. Waitara Regatta this year resulted in a surplus of over £26. The Gothic left Rio on Thursday for Plymouth — twenty-one days out. A strong southerly gale is blowing at' Christchurch. It is raining heavily there, and bitterly cold. Twenty persons left Santander, during the work of exploding remains of wrecked dynamited vessel. Sexton is to be supported by Irish party against Healy and Dillon on directorate of Freeman's Journal.