"AGE" SPECIALS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1649, 1 April 1884, Page 2

"AGE" SPECIALS.

. (Phess Association. '' : '' ' "March 20.' : A rumor. 13 being persistently. circa-, lateel that Mr Gladstone 1 intends to resign his.ppsition as -Prime Minister, arid dissolve Parliament. ..March 20.

It is rumored that Major-General ScratoMey •'■ is .• to : be/appointed Her Majesty's High Commissioner for the Western Pacific in succession to Sir Arthur Gordon, who retired last November.. ..... . ■'.:';. . - ■ i'rli.i. -V March'2l. '

It is understood that numerous applications have been received by tho British Cabinet from gentlemen that are desirous, of succeeding tho Marquis of, -Norinanby as Governor of the Colonyidf'.Vicioria,'.but; the appointment as yet has only been officially offered to Lord Reay,-who'recently declined. . '■ .i ■ ■:' : .: -i; March 24. A company is being floated to be known as "Tho. London and Colonial Meat Company," with a capital of £500,000.- Its.object is to supply its members .with colonial frozen, meats at 'cheap rate's. The general public will also be supplied,; and'the meat will be delivered .from"'tho company's establishment in carts specially constructed for the purpose.- ■ March 25. _ Admiral'Hewitt, at present at Souakitn, has issued a notice ordering the whole"''of "the slaves who have run away, since the '.commencement of the insurrection to return to their masters.