PRESS PICKINGS.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 313, 14 December 1883, Page 3

PRESS PICKINGS.

G. VT . Green late of Gore, has successfully sailed through the Bankruptcy Court in Dunediu, • -. ,■.,,,'■ X , ;. ■ . The Criterion' Hotel, ' Irivercargill, has once more changed hands, Mr Hogue having retired from the trade. The new landlord is Mr James Milne, late of Wyndham, and well known throughout the district. Peel, W.R for. the Borough 1 otWarwfck; has accepted'-the'Go-vernment nomination to the Speakership of the House of Commons. ' ; ■•/ f•■ ■ ••■"-! The Egyptian rebels have again become aggressive at Souakim, on the Bed Sea, and troops there routed them, and killed no less than 700 men ; and great alarm continues to be felt at the success of El Mahdi's followers. Particulars are to hand of an extraordinary mishap to the greater portion of . the crew of an American sealing schooner. All but- two of the crew of the vessel disappeared at Campbell Island, and these two men .had. Alone and to -bring ~the B?ifo<&&'mmi<mmovJ jf is Motipolitk vely know whether the crew were lost or not, and it is suggested that efforts should at once be made to discover .their fate and rescue them if still alive. The steamer .Triumph is now practically a It is officially announced that Mr Alfred Tennyson, the poet laureate, has been raised to the peerage with the title of Baron, A deputation of members of the United States Congress has petitioned President Arthur to obtain from the British Government a respite for O'Donnell, convicted of the murder of James Carey, and upon whom seflteiice'tof death was passed. on the ' lst instant. % George Scott, a miner, died suddenly- on Monday on .the Kawarau Kiver in Lake County, it is believed from the effects of a fight he had with hjg mate, named Thompson, some days before." Thompson having made contrary, statements,, has been taken in custody by the police, and an inquest will be lafe;*"" 1 "-' • ■ ■ • ■Att'lndtistriar-.and Art ' Exhibition was opened atJnyercargill. on Wednesday evening, " jt js in , aid of the Southland Benevolent Institute. ' . At a meeting of the Otago Land Board on Wednesday Mr Stout made a statement contradicting the explanation" of Mr Green as to how the decision had been arrived at in regard to the'imfepe'cted" cases of dummyism at Waikpuaiti, It. was decided that a re-, hearing of the bases should take place on the' 4th Df January, when there will be a ,new Board. Mr Stout intimated that' further evidence would. b,e adduced. fi _ ■..■•i=-, TJie farmers pnthe west coast of tl+e North Island arecpmplaining ot boisterous weather experienced, and say that if it continues much longer it will'be 'useless to cut a large portion pf the crops. „.,. The filling up "of the Canterbury, now at the. Blaff,;WiJ;h m,eat for the London market fp going steadily on, and $h$ principle of lpading adppted : (freezing on bpard) seems tp bs working satisfactorily sp far, Cfrea,t pareis beinjf exercised in the selection of suitable sheep,, and in slaugjjterinj and exporting fof the" ship's side. ••• ■' ] A meeting-qf menibers of tke Irisk Nation*} Land £eagae took place iii' Dublin on Tuesday, when Mr farnell' recfiived . the tribute of the yariouß branches of the league to the amount <if 4 L3B' ? OGO. k ?n fft c^usse ff h> address to the meeting, Mr Parcel! made a ij'itter.and vehement attack' upon Earl Ipene^r, yicepry,.an«l Mr Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ireland. Mr Paraell, hqwever, expressed his full con^dence in ultimate The Birerton A. and P. Show was held pa Tuesday. There were 390 entries, against gftf? ,thgi.Sfi^ l!:baforfl — iAsL J-ames.Hay. was^the higtest "aggregate prizet^ker in .all classes. „ MWNiZ.-SWpping^Co's new steamer Tongariro^las arrived* {it. Port Chalmers from lMftdoWafter r a -passage of 42 d&yd nine hours, 'Wfast rfcinaV steaming 'time »was. two days ; 1p53. She is described as.Jk.e gnfstateamer ianttingßsandbuil^iW .has .o^er entered