Odds and Ends.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1753, 24 July 1895, Page 2

Odds and Ends.

Intense cold in New South Walea, the Nepean river frozen over. Victoria going hack on post offices, 150 to be closed up. As a rule, a man's hair turns grey five years sooner than a woman’s.' All over the world some fifty-nine languages are represented by newspapers. War is threatened upon the British settlements on Lake Nyassa "by the Chief Zarifa. ' . The ten-year-old daughter of Mr Pascoe, of Waimate, Was burned to death by her clothes catching fire. Three arrests have been made in connection with the assault on Stambouloff. One of them, Georgrieff, has been recognised as one of the assassins. All are said to be friends of the late Major Panitza. The total number booked on the school railway excursions from January 21st to May 25th was 54,243 children and 20,521 adults* The revenue was .£5,236, The report of the BaJik of Victoria shows a net profit for. the half-year of J&19.8Q0 A dividend of 4 per cent; is recommended on the preference but none on the ordinary shares. J>l6,soois carried forward.- . ?

Colonel pox received a; gratuity of £2OOO from the Imperial Government on his retirement from the Service last year. During last year no fewer than 6336 persons met with accidents in the streets of London, about a tenth of whom owed their injuries to cycles. Tramps of both sexes in the Moree district, New South Wales, are so numerous that'the help they need taxes the reseourees of the settlers. One settler gave away 25 •rations in nine days. .

Shares in the Waihi mine, ill fully paid up, are now up to .£8 2s 6d, and hard to obtain even at that price. \ The Jfootball match between Gisborne and Auckland was played at Potter’s pad dock, Epsom, on Saturday, last and was witnessed by a large crowd of spectators, and re mlted in a victory for Auckland by 14 points to nil. •.