ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1819, 21 October 1884, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Mr Michael Heymanson, well known in Bnnedin, died in London on 3rd September. Tho European Mail says it is noteworthy that the Orient steamer Luaitauia, from Sydney, on 19th July, and the New Zealand steamer Ruapehu, from Lyttleton, on 27th July, arrived in Plymouth Spund within an hour of each other on 9th September. The former came via Suez, Mie latter via the Horn. The comparison is a startling one, the passage from Sydney occupying eie;hfc morej days than from New Zealand, not-f withstanding that the canal route was adopted in the former. Major Te Wheoro has been engaged in drawing up laws and regulations for the Good Templar' Lodges which Tawhiao proposes to establish in the native districts of New Zealand. Th,e douumnnts are being prepared in the Maori language. The Bishop of Nelson, has appointed the Rev. T. Rural, 8.A., late of St. James', Leeds, to tho incumbency of St John's Church, Westport, Isabella, Stuart, Countess Delbanio, who boasts to have the blood of the Pretender in her veins, and has for years disappeared from society, is Mother Abbess of a Polish convent at Carala, in Roumania. She' is at present in England. The list of cricketers who will accompany Shaw to Australia has undergone a somewhat important alteration 1 The team as it stands at present is composed as follows:—Ulyett Bates, Shaw, Scotten, Shrewsbury, <* Flowers, Barnes, Attwell,' Maurice, Reid, J. Lillywhite, and Pilling. Sir John Hall attended the meeting of the British Association in Canada.