THE MISSING PROFESSOR. Dunedin, Sunday.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 326, 19 December 1888, Page 5

THE MISSING PROFESSOR. Dunedin, Sunday.

Atelkukam from the "Daily Times" expedition to discover Professor Brown, lost between Lake Manapouri and the South Sounds, states that from the nature of the v enther there is every reason to fear the woi--t. Mr McKinnon, who wag sent by the Ciovernmenfc to join Mr Ross (Daily Times), Mr T. Mackenzie, M.H.R., aad Mr Mitchell (manager of the Manapouri station), left Dunedin in the afternoon, and would reach Lumsden atmidniffhfc, when the start would be at once made.

Brett s Auckland Almanac and Provincial Handbook is now ready, and will be published in a few days. This standard work should be in the hands of every settler and citizen throughout the province. This year's issue contains a specially full budget of information respecting the whole provincial district, which has been carefully compiled and re-written. To friends at Home intending to settle in Auckland, this would be an invaluable guide ; the information it conb&~ i s would obviate the necessity of scores of letters in reply to inquiries made respecting the province. Agents, stationers, and storekeepers should send in their orders for copies without delay. An old New Zealand resident who, after spending nearly a quarter of a century in this colony, returned to England, but finding the restraint of society a bit too irksome determined on emigrating to Canada, thus writes to a friend in New Zealand about his opinion of the prospects for a settler in Manitoba. He says: — "In Ontario land has gone beyond its value, and is, besides, worked out by injudicious cropping. 1 have just made a trip to the north-west), and the country is really indescribable. It fairly takes your breath away. Miles, ay hundreds of miles, of wheat ; oceans, and big oceans too, of grass ; day after day, week after week you can travel on and on up to your knees in grass waiting to feed millions of cattle in the summer, and to be made into hay for the bare cost of cutting for the winter. 1 saw many thousands of acres of wheat fchab looked pood for 40 to 45 bushels an acre, and I measured oats 6ft sin long with 42 stalks from the single root, and such potatoes, and such cabbages, the latter weighing over 401bs, and the land growing this to be bought for from 10s to 30s an acre, railway to your door, elevators to store your wheat, buyers waiting with cash to take it off your hands. This year there have been early frosts in Manitoba, and much wheat is damaged, but the price has gone up, and the grower will have the same money to take and less corn to handle than with a good season at ordinary prices. The want of Manitoba is mixed farming, and fortunes are waiting for the men who take to it." An amusing little incident occurred in the course of the proceedings in the Parnell Commission Inquiry, in which the name of Cardinal Moran figured prominently. The Attorney-General read to the court a letter written by Mr Davitt to the " Irish Herald " •ne of the New York papers, in which il was stated that Dr. Moran, then Bishop of Oesory, had been denouncing the Land League. The letter concluded with oho expression of a prayer that " the mind of that ecclesiastic might be opened t» the truth. '' Atthi* point Mr T. Harrington, M.P., who it one of the counsel for the defence as well as one of the accused, piously ejaculated, " The prayer was heard," an interruption which caused a good deal of merriment in court. Dunedin Mutual Agency Company finds that if it went into liquidation, a deficiency which would probably reach £2,500 might be the result, equal to a call of about 10s per share. The Committee recommends that, failing a satisfactory call, £1 per share should be written off as lost, and calls equal to that amount should be made to place the Company in a sound position, English Customs authorities require that from the beginning of next year sacks of grain, flour, and seeds imported from the colonies shall be clearly and indelibly marked with the name of the country of origin ftjul th« port of ehipmtnt.