MISCELLANEOUS.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 102, 16 May 1885, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

A Winning Heart. —-The aoe. Music of the future— Promissory notes. The foundation stone ot the Free Library building will be laid early in June. New Zealand cheese sent to Sydney realises lid per lb. Opening service in the Baptist Tabernacle to-night. When is a Scotsman like a donkey? When he stands on his banks and braes. " Love or Money ?" We should say with the canny Scot—' 1 Baith's best I" A bazaar held in Christchurch on behalf of the Convent realised £1,500 in two days. Tauranga is looking up. One day last week there were seven commercial travellers in the town. The total enrolled Volunteers in Great Britain at the present time is 215,000 men, the greatest number yet attained, It is estimated that there are six millions of Germans, and an equal number of Irish, in the United States of America. At Christchurch, 3,000 shares in the Southern Cross Petroleum Company have been sold at 3d each. It is stated that Judge Williams, of the Native Land Court, will retire on his pension at the end of June. Maoris at Parihaka are making preparations for a great feast. The settlers are afraid they will be eaten up. Mr Hankins, who died in Auckland recently, was sub-editor of the "Otago Mail " under Mr F. J. Moss's editorship. England, with a population of 36,000,000, collects £19,000,000 in Customs duties, while Russia, with 83,000,000 of a population, only levies £9,000,000 per annum. Wellington "Jingoes" are talking of cabling their views to Sir Stafford Northcote on Mr Gladstone's "humiliating concessions to Russia." The antique marbles in the British Museum, in which infernal machines might be conveniently deposited, are now boarded up. Love or Money? Hear what the "Northern Farmer" says about it: — " Can't thou love a lasg and her money too, making them go together as they've a good right to do ?" A Sydney constable who recently tried to interfere between a husband and wife was set upon by the amiable couple, and pummelled and kicked unmercifully. They are now in prison, and he is in the Hospital. Russia makes annually 126,000,000 wooden spoons for the Central Asia market. The common grades are made from birch and poplar, and the best qualities from boxwood. Dunedin bootmakers offer to assist those on strike at Christchurch. A widow, intending to succeed her hus band in the management of a hotel, advertised that "the hotel would be kept by the widow of the former landlord, Mr Brown, who died last summer on a new and improved plan." Tawhiao made but a slight impression on the Northern Maoris — his chief adherents being the silly lot who ran after the false prophetess lately. The chief Kaiorti objected to the use of the prefix " Kingi " by Tawhiao, and an open rupture very nearly ensued in consequence of Tawhiao persisting in doing so. The " clannish '' Scots of Otago are already smelling after the loaves and fishes of next session. Their representatives meet to-morrow to consider the best means to adopt to ensure more vigorous proeecution of the Otago central railway. The most impudent of all things is a mirror, for it is always casting reflections. She skated on the roller rink. She sat down on the floor ; She didn't say a single wordShe doesn't skate no more. An insane scare was got up in Sydney last week by a report that the Chief Justice had officially proclaimed from the bench that war between Britain and Kussia had been declared. From 1st July next all persons selling poisonous substances must put them in an octagon -shaped bottle, a label with the word "Poison," in white letters on red ground to be affixed thereto. Thi3 is rough on rat poison and other staff which cannot be put in bottles. MrBartley, the principal agent of the Conservative party in England, resigned because the Conservative leaders are not in harmony with the great body of Conservativeaamong the middle and working classes throughout the country. He adds : — " During the last five years, feeble and weak as the policy of the Government has been, that announced by the Opposition has been very little better." The Russian navy is said to be composed of four divisions, the Baltic fleet, the Black Sea fleet, the Siberian or Pacific fleet, and the Caspian. The strength of these divisions is given as follows : — Baltic fleet, 246 vessels, including 32 ironclads and 94 torpedo boats. On the Black Sea, 117 vessels of all descriptions, 7 of the number being ironclads. The Siberian fleet comprises 6 torpedo-boats, 1 clipper, 3 transports, 4 gunboats, 14 steamers of various sizes, and 18 sailing ships. The Caspian flotilla consists of 33 vessels. Besides these, Russia possesses some naval material on the Sea of Aral, 6 steamers and about 20 sailing vessels. But leaving these out of the count the sum total of the Russian navy is 442 vessels of all descriptions. Many of them, however, are practically useless, and the number of really efficient ships is brought down to 1S5 vessels.

been made previously to the commencement of the windingrup of the company nnd shall be unpaid, io respect of any shares whatever of such company. Clause 20. Shares "held in trust" for a company, as provided in section twelve of the said Act, shall, hs regards the sale of such shares, be first offered to the shareholders, and thereafter to the public, as provided in seotion forty-five of the said Act with respect to " new" srtaaes,an»1 no shares so held in trust shall be disposed of by the directors by private sale.