STEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 10018, 1 June 1894, Page 2

STEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

MAN MISSING. Chbistchubch, June 1. An auctioneer at Leestoo, named Henley, left bis home on Monday even. ing to yisit a neighbouring farm to par cka3e/wb.eat, and was planning to go from there to Bakaia Island to look at some sheep. His horse came home early on Tuesday morning. Up to the present nothing has been heard of him. Search parties are out, bat nothing can be heard of him since his lerving home. FORTNIGHTLY SHIPMENTS OF i BUTTER HOME. Dunedijt, June 1. The Shaw Savill & Albion Company have entered into arrangements with the National Dairy Association of New . Zealand for a fortnightly service for the ' carriage of dairy produce from this | colony to London. The Association is to have the prior right to all the space in the cool chambers, the company every 1 alternate fortnight despatching steamers from Port .Chalmers, Lyttelton, and "Wellington. Hails for Auckland, per s.s. Kaneiri, close to-morrow (Saturday), at 3.30 pjn. The attendance at the Central School has for sometime past been exceptionally good, the average attendance for the j present week being 4CB. The direct steamer Tainui, from London, via Gape, arrived at Hobart on Thursday afternoon. She sailed for Port Chalmers this (Friday) morning. The Tainui bringa 28 passengers for Australian ports, and 51 for New Zealand. There was a large attendance at the Mutual Improvement Society's meeting on Thursday night to hear Mi's Shawcross deliver a lecture on Chaucer. The lady gave a very interesting address on the subject, dealing with the life and times of Chaucer, the effect of his works on English literature, and concluded with some personal recollections of Henry Morley, late Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. | It may be interesting to our reacteis io i know that a member of the New Plytnonth High School staff has recently attained very high distinction in the New Zealand University B. A. Examination, the marks for which have just come to hand. Mr JET. J. Mahon has had the good fortune to receive " special mention ' for his papers on Latin, Trigonometry, and Euclid, scoring no "" less than 87 per cent for Translation, and 84 for composition in Latin, and the very exceptional percentage of 91 in the Mathhmatics. One of tho leading English professors speaks officially of Mr Mahon's work as a "pleasure to read," which we feel sure not every student's paper is. We are sorry to hear that Mr Mahon has,, by coining to New Plymouth, lost the second year B.A; Students' Scholarship at Auckland University College, which he had ■won. But he may rest assured that though £30 a year poorer his distinction will not be forgotten.