CHIT-CHAT.
UP TO DATE.
Dull morning ; with only an occasional glimpse of sunshine. Thermometer in the shade " under the verandah " at 2 p.m. to-day, 60 degrees; in the sun in front of office, 90. » Direct steamer Rimutaka arrived at" Hobart at noon on Friday. Mr M. Jones will start his omnibus to run between New Plymouth and Fitzroy | to-night. Bookmakers are to be prohibited from r plying their calling in the Auckland Domain Ground. t Mr Bridger, at Dunedin, committed suicide by shooting himself on Friday morning. Agent-General of Victoria and Tasi mania are supporting New Zealand in regard to Samoa. Professor Morris' appeal for assistance j for the Melbourne unemployed is not generally approved of. | A rich gold discovery is reported from a locality near Mount Lyell, Tasmania. Shaw, Saville & Albion Company show profits to the amount of £18,000. Cab owners in London are coming to terms with the men. Miners' Congress at Berlin have approved of a legal eight hours day's work in the mines. A Committee of the United States ij^.^cito is to be sot up to enquire into alleged bribery in connection with Tariff BUI. The mysterious btone thrower in Sydney has been discovered to be a girl, who was detected in the act. A labour conference is being held in Brisbane to deal with the question of reduction of shearers' wages. Sir Patrick Buckley is to be examined before the Fox's Letter Commission. Nine years ago to-day a destructive fire occurred in New Plymouth, when the block of buildings " under the verandah" were destroyed. The Bcdukt first appeared May 19th, 1877. Seven of Mr J. Coldwell's family at Inglewood were made very ill on Thursday by eating sardines. Captain Edwin predicts bad weather between midnight of Monday and Wednesday night. The P. & O. Company's steamer Rome, has arrived at Albany. The Sydney Evening Star says that the Rev. Mr L. Isitt is a '" brilliant comedian lost to the operatic stage." [ Mrs Sarah Taiwhanga (wife of the well-known Sydney Taiwhanga) died last week in the Costley Home at Auckland. The Napier breakwater was damaged very much by the seas last week, i Mr Donkin's survey party have been ordered to stop their operations. Alterations are being made at the Sentry Hill railway station, which is to be removed to a more convenient place. Seven policemen wei'e killed during a riot in Managua, in Central America. - Waipuku hotel has been taken over by Mr Mackay. On the Tikorangi-Tarata ' road the whole of the bush has been felled. A party of men are now engaged in making aud forming roads through the bush in the Mimi block. _ At Invercargill a tomato which weighed 24 ounces has been exhibited. A number oi the Wellington unemployed have been sent to Mokau to work' on the roads there.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 10008, 19 May 1894, Page 2
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