LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 269, 24 June 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tiikke h-is just been iucrouced to the notice of English investors (says the European Mail) a new company called •' The New Zealand Mortage and Investment .Association (Limited)" wills a capital of L500,000m LlO shares. The objects ot the company are to advance money on mortage securities in the Colony of New Zealand, and to act as agents fur parlies desirous of making investments in their own sames by way of mortgage or otherwise. The rapid growth of the Colony offers a very favorable field for such business.

The Post says :—" We hear on good authority that a company is about to be started in Wellington to tnde between this port and the Samoan Islands. There can be no doubt that it would be n'"fine thing for Wellington if a flourishing business could be established with the Islands, and we therefore wish the Company every success. A glance at the map wili show that Wellington is very favorably situated for the purpose A private meeting of gentlemen interested in the venture has already been held, and it is probable that in a few days a public meeting will be held, at which the scheme will be fully laid before the residents of;Wellington "

The Hay Standard (N.S.W.) reports a lamentable incident which has occurred at tiui>bur< Luke. Mr Armstrong, tho

manager of the station, who usually rides about with a troop of fifteen or sixtesn bmgaroo dogs at his heels, happened to com •• across two boys belonging t') a poor laborer travelling in search of work. .The la-Is on seeing the clogs ran ; the dogs (Tiiy:) chase, and caught one of the lads, who was from seven to fight years of age, and worried and bcerated him in a frightful manner before assistance could be given to drive them off- After lingcrn«r a tnv days in great agony death ter-imiir-te his sufferings.

The chief insp- otor of stock in Queens land estimates that there are 6,000,000 sheep and 3 000,00" c ittlc in Queensland, and which, after providing for the requirments of the Colony, will leave 2-0 tons of meat per week for exportation

Thirty-six years ago Australia and Tasmania forrred only a district of the Anglican diocese of Calcutta Now they form thirteen dioceses, of whicii Drßirker is metropolitan Dr Barker was ordained in 1831, and succeeded, iJr Brnughton, the first Bishop of Australia, in 1854 By a strange and melancholy coincidence (says a contemporary), Colonel Pickard, V.C., the brave and gallant soldier who died recently at Cannes from a brief attack of illness—violent congestion of the lungs —was buried on the verv day which had been originally fixed for his wedding day. His murriag". to Miss M'Noile, daughter of Sir John°M'Neile, who also died -vithin the last few months, had been fixed to take place tiiat day. This young laiy has lost hsr father and affianced husband within the short space of three months. The very wreaths which were to have been used at the wedding became funeral garlands to be throwi on the coffin, and the bridal veil ami dress wore lying ready to be put on by the new widowed bride. Death was caused by the rupture of a blood-vessel on lbs lungs, and the poor young bride sat sat up three hopeless days and nights watching the life slowly sinking away. ■