NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2077, 29 October 1885, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, Tuesday. \t the Magistrate's Court this afternoon i chaigc of perjury preferred against Daniol and Mtry Ry*n by their mother, \. Ryan, was partly heard, and adjourned Mil Thursday The offence is alleged to >ia\e b-'en committed in a recent divorce iiiit, in which Mrs Ryan petitioned for a hvorce from her hmband. Tlio American warship Enterprise will lca\t> here on November 4 for New York, via Valparaiso. Bishop Redwood leaves New Zealand in a few daya in order to atteud the Epii* copal Council m Sydney. The Governor entertained the officers of the American warship at dinner tonight. To-morrow night they will be entertaiued at the Wellington Club. On Friday nie;ht Mr Levin, the American Consul, will give a ball in their honour. A party consisting of members of the Go\ eminent, Colonel Sir G. Whitmore, md others visited the Enterprise this morning. The Hon E. Richardson leaves for Christchurch to-morrow, he will be absent for a few days on private business. The Hou Mr Tole returns to-morrow. The Government have not yet decided who will be the Royal Commissioners representing New Zealand at the Colonial Exhibition in London, but they will be chosen from among the many colonial residents who aro now at home, and will probably include Sir F. D. Bell, Sir John Hall, Sir E Stafford, and Sir W. Fox.

CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. The Kaiapoi Woollen Factory, at their annnal meeting, declared & ten per cent dividend, and carried £4300 to the reserve fund. It was decided to increase the capital to £200,000 in £3 shares ; 20,000 new shares are to be created.

DUNEDIN, Tuesday. The Hussars have gone under canvas for their yearly trainiug, which is now proceeding. At a public meeting, at which representatives from nearly all denomination! •*pr>ke, it was resolved to form a White Cross Society.

Elizabeth Stpart'.s Piielps' new story, "An Old Man's Paradise," is said to be one of the best things she has ever written. "Hl'.s a man of extraordinary good memory, I've been told." "I don't believe it." "Why not?" "I've heard him talk in class-meeting." ''Well, what of that ?" "He don't seem to remember more than half the devilment he'a ever

Bcn.s, as a rule, are a nuisance, but there is always something about oar onn that makes them a little superior to others. They are of a finer quality I of m iterial, nnd the noise they make is not the hiish and nerve-destroying kin.l that ot 1 or boys make.— Texae Sittings.

Dor*. White, a Western advocate of additional lights for her sex, demands that divoice shall be made easier for women and entirely impossible for men. There should lie no delay in giving Dor* the earth, with a hair-pin fence around, it.