Diary of the Week.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 9, 21 June 1889, Page 15

Diary of the Week .

Wednesday. 12th. Letters received from Mr J. v^opel report improvement in health, also intention to remain absent from Colony for lengthened period. —Earthquake shock at Wood vi He. — Victorian imports for 1888, *23,972,000 ; exports. £13 853,000; increase io buth over 1887. — Government of N.S W. approves of scheme compelling schoolboys over 12 to undergo military tran ing, and afterwards drafting them to senior cadet corps. Thursday, 13th. Auckland Crown Lands Board renolves to inform Government resources of survey department insufficient to meet survey requirements, owing to demand for settlement. — Gazette notifies all licences to use totalisators at races revoked fmm Ist July. — Returns show immigration into Colony for May, 1013 ; emigration, 1148. — Public meeting at Greymouth urges on Government immediate completion of Grey-Ho&itika railway. — Railway accident in County Armagh ~b.\ collision of excursion tr.iins of Methodist Sunday-schools ; 200 killed and injured.— Gladstone addresses 35,000 miners at Redrutb, Cornwall. — Coroner's j .ry in Cronin's murder case returns verdict of guilty against A. Suihvan, P. O'Sulhvan, Detective Coughl'n, and Frank Woodruffe ; declares ■ -lan-na-Gael aud bimilar institutions injurious to Ameiican instituting. Friday, Hth. Gold discovered near Hunua. — Heavy rains and injuiious floods in Victoria. — Heavy gale and fl >ods at Hobart. Gladstone, speaking •t Stanstill, advocates Home Rule for Scotland and Wales, and disestablishment of Church. Saturday, 15th. Floods in Victoria continue ; two men drowned in Rodney district. Lower portion of Hobart u< der water ; bad weather continues. ' —Indian Government informs Victorian Government of desire to purchase 2000 Australian horses for army service. — Alexander Sullivan, arrested for Cronin's murdur, hherated on bail of 20,000 iols.— Deaths from Armagh railway accident, 74 — Woods, jockey, examined in turf scandal before Jockey Club, admits himself worth £100,000 — Gladatone received with unexampled enthusiasm throughout Cornwall. Monday, 17th. Gievy confirms Boulanger's stattcnent a^ to secret increase of French army. — Thought unlikely Alexander Sullivan will be convicted in abfe.ice of legal prouf. — Journal de St. Petersburg denies Warlike intentions of Russia. Tuesday, 18th. Public meeting at Hokitika ur^ca completion of Hokitika-Grey railway. — Floods continue in Vicoria ; Gippsand lakes pened by force of water to navigation. — Cost of Melbourne Exhibition to colony published at £260.000.— Pi ii c of Wales states, at Damien memoiial meeting, leprosy ircivasn g in ludia and Australia ; states leper eDgaged in London meat maik> j t. — B.shon of Limerick closes church at Knock because of boycotting of lund-grabber. — Cyclone *nd floods in Kansas.