CHIT-CHAT

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10277, 4 April 1895, Page 2

CHIT-CHAT

An exquisite morning, but atmosphere very chilly. Thermometer at Gilmour's corner m the shade, at 2 p.m. to-day, 59 degrees ; in sun in front of office, 102 degrees.

UP TO DATE.

Meeting held at Waitara yesterday afternoon, when it was decided to form a company to buy the freezing works from Estates Company.

The Maketawa Dairy Company will start their factory in September next.

Another Thames Goldmining Company has been fully subscribed for in London.

Ship owners are not likoly to tender for ca'riage of Victorian produce to London now that the conditions are known.

Tho promotion of an Assets Company to purchase South Australian properties has for a time been suspended. The Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England, Mr A. G. Sandeman, has been elected Governor of that institution.

The surrenderto the British authorities of Jabez Balfour by the Salta authorities has been ordered by tl.o Federal Judges of Argentine. i Mr G. Hutchison, M.H.R., addressed a large meeting at Wanganui on Wednesday night. A bootmaker named Walter Mills was found dead on Tuesday night in a house at St Albans, in Canterbury. Lord Monkswell is mentioned as the likely Governor for South Australia. A formal agreement has been completed between Russia and Groat Britain respecting the Pamirs. The master bootmakers in England havo accepted the offer of tho Government to settle tho dispute between them and the men on strike. Most of the shops in Auckland and Newtou were closed on Wednesday afternoon. A speaker wanted to know why New Plymouth peoplo did not hire a spoiial train and come down to Waitara to swamp tho meeting. , Government has appointed Mrs Grace Neil a registrar of unemployed women to assist them to find work. Minister of Labour is endeavouring to force the Auckland and Gisborne people to observe Saturday as tho half-holiday. '-Auckland and Gisborne people assort that closing on Saturday moans ruin to them: but Minister of Labour does not care. Bismarck has received a million letters and ten thousand telegrams o£ congratulations on his birthday. Oiscar Wilde's libel ca36 is causing great sensation at Home. London papers which a short time since condemned tho English cricketers in Australia as almost "duffers, 1 aro now fulsome in their praise. A Spanish cruiser fired upon and boarded a British steamer off Cuba.