Brevities.

Thames Star, Volume XX, Issue 5923, 28 January 1888, Page 2

Brevities.

Mr E. McDonald Seotfc, manager of the Cambria G.M.Co., ir at present on the Thames.

The Government We decided to dig* pense with the services of LieutenantColonel McDonnell as Native Land Purchase Aijent. The Boferoo tins North Shore to win the "Whaleboat Bace, Wairoa second. Bather rough on Waitemsta ! i A proclamation in the Gazette notifies [the further postponement of Parliament. I to the 28th of March. ! At the Clarence Town (New Sooth ! Wales) races yesterday two horses fell. Result: Both horses killed, one jockey killed, and another had his shoulder dislocated. Mr Seaver, mining and consulting engineer, is now in Auckland, and ia en* gaged making assays and preparing his report respecting the mines he has examined in the Thames and Ohinemrri gold fields.

Tiie New Zealand Tablet has a severe leading article on the new Catholic paper which has been established at Wellington. It csalla it " the English-Catholic organ." Each County in California is going to spend £203 this jear to advertise itself. Onehunga sent 142 tons of potatoes down south in September, October* and November of last year and Auckland gets its potatoes from Canterbury. The Secretary of State for the Colonies has suggested that the sketching of the fortifications m tho colonies be made a penal offence

Someone ia said to hare invented a subt. an«e that can be seen through more clearly than,Rlass. What can it be. utw less it is amait'i excuse to his wife for not returning home before 2 a.m.P A foQvvoomed house at Pokeno, the property of William Turner, wu burned down yesterday. Insurances: £100 OU furniture, aud £50 on building.