NEWS OF THE WEEK.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 223, 10 August 1877, Page 12

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

We understand that the Bulls appointing the Very Rev. Dr. Chareyre Bishop of Auckland have arrived in New Zealand. The Rev. Doctor, however, is at present absent from the colony, en route for Europe, and it is by no means certain that he will accept the proffered See.

We have received from the Government Printer the Statistics of the Colony of New Zealand for 1876, together with the first number of " Hansard" and other Parliamentary Papers. We learn the following from the Hawkes Bay Herald of the 28th ult.: — " The Catholic Bazaar in the Oddfellows' Hall yesterday was again well attended, both in the afternoon and in the evening, and we are informed that considerably more money was taken than on the previous evening (the amount taken on both the days exceeded .£100). The stalls were very tastefully decorated with branches of fern, brought down from Taupo by Mr. Peters. There were also very fine specimens in pots on the stage. The number and variety of French toys displayed on the stalls were something surprising : some of the better class of them being fitted up with very clever mechiinism, they created a good deal of amusement, not only to the children, but to those further advanced in years. The Napier Artillery Volunteer Band enlivened the proceedings with some choice musical selections.

The New Zealand Country Journal for July contains several interesting papers relative to agricultural matters. Besides affording much information to persons engaged in farming pursuits, the publication in question gives copious notes on sporting. It will be found an acquisition both by the agriculturalist and the sportsman.

The New Zealand Magazine for the quarter ending with. July last reached us rather late to admit of our reviewing it. It is, however, a fair average number of the periodical, but the publication might with advantage be popularised by the addition of a certain amount of matter suited to the requirements of general readers.

A veteran settler, named Quinlan, died lately at Panmure. Mr. Quinlan, who had served in the Chinese Campaign in 1841, had been settled in this colony for thirty years. The United Trades' Demonstration came off in Dunedin ou Saturday evening last, and was a most unqualified success. The torchlight procession was a beautiful spectacle, and is said to have been one of the finest things of the kind ever seen in the colonies, if no more. The public meeting was held in the building of Messrs. Guthrie and Laraach, where the chair was taken by his Worship the Mayor. The first resolution was proposed by Mi*. Dungan, as representative of the Typographical Association, and was to the effect thai Government, by pursuing their present course of importation, not only injured the artisans of the colony, but the interests of the country at large. Messrs. Hogg and Moss, representing severally the Tailors' Society and the Engineers and Ironworkers, proposed the second and third resolutions. A great deal was said from which it is clear that the artisans of the colony have been, and are being, extremely ill-used by the action of the Government to the detriment of all classes of the community ; and it is to be hoped that this meeting, which was a most important one, and evidently represented the state of feeling of the public in general, will have a good effect, and that the resolutions carried at it will meet with due attention.

We learn that the Dunedin Jockey Club have at length appointed a committee. A meeting will be held this evening, at which the various officials and a sub-committee will be appointed. As it is well known that the success of all race meetings depends on the handicapper, and the confidence that ruay be placed in his impartiality, it is to be hoped that a gentleman will not be chosen to fill the post at whose establishment jockeys and owners of horses are likely to assemble, so that it would be next to impossible for him to escape a bias. The Turks have been driven to bay, and bid fair to turn the tables upon their invaders. The advance upon Adrianople seems about to be changed for a stampede backwards in the direction of the Danube. We do not, however, look for more than a temporary check to the Russian arms. We were indeed amazed to find that hostile forces had been allowed to penetrate so far into the country without serious impediment. It is only now that the real work of war may be said to have begun, and the climax will, no doubt, speedily be reached. It is certain that the greater the losses of

Russia maybe in conquering, the more exacting will she become when reckoning with her fallen foe. The issue so completely depends on the part to be taken by the other nations of Europe — which as yet is obscure — that it would be impossible to predict, with any probability of truth, what the result may be.