NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 2, 16 June 1883, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A London . syndicate H^s taken up the nallotted shares, representing L 200,000, in the Wellington aed Ityfanawatu railway. Jn the libel action,- Sherit v. the Age newspaper, at Melbourne 1 , verdict was given fhr plaintiff for une farthing damages. . , / , v;t The Opawa tool?- j-OOQ dozen oysters from Lyttelton in her freezing chambers, as anexperiment;. , -. v Governor Cleveland, of New York, sold newspapers when a boy. „»,• The 'Nelson Mail' states LBOOO was lost over the recent election at Inangahua. On the evening before the polling day L2oo.was sent/,from\Tiniaru to be invested on MrWakefield, every penny of which was talt^ri up. The statement that the Hon. Mr Bryce intends going home to prosecute Mr Rusden criminally for libel, is generally discredited. ' * "'* '• A meeting of Nihilists^in St. Petersburg was surprised by the rpolice, but all escaped capture. ,-. „, The cargo of frozen mutton ex Garonne realised an average of^od der lb in the London market. " Professoi Sample .made a second tour through Waikato, and ' gave lessons to large classes. ■ ' ,:' Mr J. Sheehan, M.H.lfy has offered to take over the debt on 6: * Peter's Catholic Church, Cambridge, at, 5 per cent, for twelve months. The dgbjtfc is about LlOO. A half-caste wdhiaii 1 in New South Waleli recently gave bitth to twins, one child being white and tue, other black. A strange freak of Nature,- without doubt. At a meeting of tne provincial director* of the nevr Meat Freezing Compacys at Christchurch, it Mas resolved to iSx the capital at £100,000 in £5. shares. Thomas Qadfray, ole/of the Phoenix Park assassins, wae hung on Saturday last at Dublin. He admitted his guilt, and blamed the chiefs of the Society for leadiiij.-, ii« to tpbuble. , \.wamutu troop have received a bonus oi £90 odd, and the Waiuku troop, who altio turned out for service during the recent drat urbarlce caused by Muhnti, but were hapfVtly n'ofr te<j[U^-e(i, hwve had tUe Bum of £60 odd httitdeci , to them. Theae bonuses re'preaeui'pa'y'at' ; tlie rate of 12s 6d per man per day for eaoli 'diy o.i part of a day on which he was under arms. The Age" 'desj>atelleii : M>rrisou, who recently 1 , walked i«om the Gulf of Carpentaria* to' "Melbourne, v to explore New G-uin'eaV ■■'> ' \» -•'■'• The Government have granted the following reward* hir informutiou afforded in connection wim* trie Phoenix Park murders, vizi—TUoinato- Farrell, £1000, and Michael KuVtmu^ii, £350. 1 Ici the 1 IloUde of Commons on the 13tji, a motion for providing grauta by the Stctie to enable Irish tenants to purchase tlieir farms, was biotight before the House by (lie Conservative -leaders, and after » long diacvaaiou agieed to.