Diary of the Week.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 14, 27 July 1888, Page 13

Diary of the Week.

Wednesday, nth. Mbbtino in Auckland urges Government to resume settlement. -Society for prevention of State regulation of vice, formed at Auck- • \a* Fox '^ reßid ent.— Motion for payment of Members rejected m House of Commons.— Rhodes, of Capetown, gives £60.000 to Parnellito fund.-Leany returned for Rligo South vice Kennedy, resiKnei.—Mackeneie declares Emperor William's ear disease may affect his brain. J Thursday, 19th. M'Kay, of Geological department discovers marble on Otira range, Makarewa.— Fire at De Beer mine, Kimberley, South Africa causes death of 250 men.— Duel between Boulanger and Floquet • Boulanger s»nomsly wounded.- French fishing vessels purloining bait seized by Newfoundland cruiser.— Anarchist plot to revenue executed anarchists discovered in Chicago. * 01 - UIOU Fbidat, 20th. „•£' - I s£? over land takeß P lace> under chief a Taurua Kupa and Bni Hin, at Whangarei.— Serious fire in Chinese quarters, Sydney — Opals discovered in Queensland —Russian army to be increased by million and a half men,~German doctors savage at Mackenzie's declaration about Emperor's brain. -Massacre of whites by Indians in British Columbia.— German Press trying to drive Empress Victoria out of country. Saturday, 21st. Announced 3 men killed and several wounded in native fight at Wnangarei.— German Company undertake construction Gnilford Champion railway, W. A.; Gtrman immigrants to Bettle nlong line. — Kmperor William meets Czar with great pageantry t o« Cronstadt. Monday, 23rd. Public meeting in Dunedin, Mr. J. Carroll chairman, urges contrnction of Otago Central line by syndicate.— Smart earthquake" shock m Scotland. Tuesday 24. Nugget of 3860z. found Donnelly's creek. Gippsland : nugget of 3605. found Wedderburn, Victoria. BouUnger badly defeated for Ardeche— reported successful some weeks ago by cable.