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Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1884, 6 August 1874, Page 2

Dr. of New Zealand, having duly qualified, was on June 6 called to the degree of barrister-at-law by the benchers of the Inner Temple. The sale of fruit trees, etc., from Messrs Mason Bros., advertised for yesterday by Mr Fulleine has been postponed owing to the nonarrival of the 'Enterprise.' It will be seen by advertisement elsewhere, that a meeting is called for the purpose of resuscitating the Thames Boating Club, and now that the rowing season is coming in, we have no doubt the matter will be ardently taken up. In answer to a question in the House, Mr Yogel stated that it was not intended to introduce "any system whereby grants of land shall be made to the heads or members of families reared in the colony by parents whose immigration has imposed only a partial or no burden upon the public revenue or estate." An Auckland member remarked to me (Auckland correspondent N, Z. Herald} the other day on the question of re-distribution of seats, " O'Neill has too. many electors by half; Waitemata election not over yet; member for Eden absent. Auckland has grounds for complaint." We perceive that Mr Wm. Brown, for many years a partner in the well-known firm of Brown, Campbell and Co., has retired from that firm, and the business will in future be conducted under the old title by Mr J. L. Campbell. Mr Brown has been resident in England for many years. The fine clipper brig' Vision,' 160 tons, belonging to Mr T. flarrell, of Auckland, arrived on Tuesday ovening from Gtrafton Biver, with'a cargo of 1,900 bags maize. The •Vision'has been purchased in Sydney, and will at once|be registered in Auckland. She is, without doubt, a valuable acquisition , to our Auckland shipping/ She was builc on the Clyde River, N.S.W., and has hitherto been engaged in the tea trade between China and Melbourne, and is reported to have made rapid passages. On his birthday lately, his Holiness the Pope received upwards of one hundred thousand letters from various parts of the Christian world, and above two hundred telegrams.— Sir Charles Gfavan Duffy, who arrived by the Australian mail, is at present in Italy, and will not reach London before the end of the month. —The following gentlemen were presented at the late levee:—Lieut.-Colonel Harington, New Zealand Militia (late R,M,t.1.), by the First ■ Lord of the Admiralty: and Mr James A. ' Youl, on appointment to O.M.GL, by'the Earl t of Carnarvon,—Mr Henry Bell, the eldest son . of Sir F. Dillon Bell, of Otago, has been called at the ;; Middle Temple.—Mr M'Arthur has ' given notice of motion, to como on early in * July, on the annexation of Fiji, She feeling 8 here ia in iavour of annexation,