CHIT-CHAT. UP TO DATE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 9977, 13 April 1894, Page 2

CHIT-CHAT. UP TO DATE.

Fine weather, with mild atmosphere. Thermometer " under the verandah ' at 2 p.m. to-day, 68 degrees ; in front of office, 94. Mr W. G. P. O'Callaghan, clerk of the Magistrate's Court, has been appointed clerk of the New Plymouth Licensing Committee. Wednesday, August Ist, has been fixed on as a holiday to celebrate Arbor Day. At Port Chalmers a man was recently fined for driving a waggon load of wool on Sunday. Regulations under the Infants' Life Protection Act have been Gazetted. Wreck of what is supposed to be the Grecian Bend has been discovered three miles off Mohaka, Hawke's Bay. A Volunteer Company called the Auckland Engineers has agreed to disband. Captain Anderson said he had been a member of company twenty years, but because he was absent one day when ill, was refused a long service medal. There has been a rush from the old diggings at Wyolong (N.S.W.) to where the reef can be traced. Herbert Shand pleaded guilty at Police Court to misappropriating several sums of money at Stratford. He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour. Manchester merchants' donation of £5000 is to be applied by Bishop Moorhouse to endow church schools. A University Extension Conference is to be held in London in June next. Excess of exports over imports in New South Wales will enable that colony to pay interest on the public debt. Irish Land Tenure Bill has been introduced into the House of Commons and read a second time. The Times (London) denies the Colonies are selfish with regard to Pacific mail and cable scheme. Brazilian refugees have been taken on board Portuguese warships. Drought on Continent is causing considerable alarm in Germany and Austria. Rioting is still going on in Pennsylvania amongst the cokemen. United States Mine Workers Convention have ordered a general strike of miners on April 21. Mr W. J. Shaw, of New Plymouth, was married on Wednesday last to Miss Florence M. Anderson, of Wellington. Miss Anderson is a niece of Mrs Bal lance, widow of the late Premier. Sir Edward Stafford has been examined by Judge Williams about the Loan and Mercantile Agency affairs. Soft goods trade in United Kingdom is very brisk just now. Shipment of fowls and ducks from Australia, packed in boxes, was a groat success. A correspondent writes to us as follows :—": — " Prohibition principles prevent prompt payments." Too many '' p's" about tho paragraph to please us. Swazaland natives are demanding an autonomy.i Colon, a town in P.inama, is on fire. A man with the whole of his family were drowned during the late floods in Queensland.