CHIT-CHAT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 10139, 20 October 1894, Page 2

CHIT-CHAT.

UP TO DATE.

Fine weather stil l conti nues , and getting very warm. Thermometer " under the verandah " at 2 p.m. to-day, C 6 degrees. Iv sun in front of office, 76. To-morrow is the Twenty-Second Sunday after Tridity. Parliament, it is expected, will close on Monday next. Two Wellington newspapers, the Evening Press and Weekly Herald, are likely to cease publication shortly. Judge of N.S.W. Supreme Court said he was surprised the free labourers did not arm themselves to resist outrages. Rich gold discovery has been made in Newstead district, Victoria. Delaney, who has been wanted in Wellington for some time , past, has been ar^estod at Tologa Bay. Czar, it is reported, is gradually sinking. Chilian Government has declined the offer nf tho Chinese to buy six warships. Chinese repulsed a night attack on the north bank of Yalu river. Ten thousand Socialists surrounded Parliament House in Vienna, and a free fight took place with the police. Republican leaders of United States are about to abandon Protection. Lord Drumlanrig, eldest ' son of the Marquis oi'Queensberry, was accidentally killed by a discharge of his own gun. Dairy Industry Bill has been assented to b}' the 1 Go\ ernor. Lord Glasgow and family will spend a mouth in AVanganui during the summer. Joll Brothors' supply of milk to their Okaiawa factory now totals 1300 gallons a d.iy. Mr C. G. Andrews, Manager of the Melbourne branch of the Bank of Now Zealand, paid a short visit to New Plymouth this morniug. Chinese fleet which has been refitted, has lieeu ordered to leave Port Arthur. Hon. Patrick Dignan, M L.C., died suddenly this morning on board Takapuna as she was lying alongside wharf at , breakwater. Mr J. A. Froude, the historian, is dying. Transvaal Government lias announced its determination to manage independently the Pretoria and Deiagoa Bay Railway. General manager Bank of New Zealand, Mr J. M. Butt, was a passenger by Takapuna, which arrived here this morning. Mikado, in opening Japan Parliament, said '' We will not stop the war, till the object of starting it is obtained." Cable .from Washington states that there are many signs of a collapse of Protection in United States. Twenty-four men concerned in riot at Moamba Station (N.S.W.) were acquitted. Over a hundred jurors were challenged. Revenue of Tasmania is still falling. The Exhibition does not improve tho Customs revenue.