BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 8267, 12 July 1890, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

The young man Booker, who stopped a runnaway horse in Stafford street on Wednesday, will please call at this office, where a guinea, forwarded to him by the Taieri Milk Company in recognition of his pluck, awaits his acceptance Mr Carew reserved judgment in the case of Clark v. the Education Board heard yesterday. As showing the extent of the damage by the recent floods in New South Wales it has been reported that one river district alone suffers to the extent of L£ 0,000. A fatal accident occurred at the granite works at Cape Foulwind, John Dempster having been crushed by a stone, which fell from a face, and killed him instantaneously The first arbor day in Victoria was celebrated on June 21 by planting 25,000 trees in country districts. The picture of * The Traitor," which attracted so much attention in our Exhibition Art Gallery, is to be purohased for the National Gallery at Melbourne, | The Exhibition concert hall has been sold for removal to Mr Sandilands, the amount of his tender being L 350. A conference of delegates from friendly societies in Wellington appointed a vigilance committee last night to watch over legislaj tion affecting the various friendly organisations. Sir R, Stout leaves Wellington on Monday, and ia expected in town on Tuesday evening.

The jubilee of the hoisting of the British flag (August 10, 1S40) at Akaroa 1b to be fittingly celebrated by the unveiling of an obelisk, suitably inscribed. The Government propose to vote LIOO for the purpose, and it is expected that Admiral Scott will send one of hia ships to take part in the proceedings. The New Zealand Alliance have issued a leaflet on which is printed a colored diagram showing the sums spent by the people of this colony during 1889 on intoxicants and on articles of general consumption. The diagrams are based on the figures of Mr C. M. Gray. A tall, black column, which dwarfs all the others, tells that strong drink last year cost L 1,996,286, while the other expenditures were: Beef, mutton, pork, etc., L 1,428,816 ; bread and Sour, L 1.395,716; boots and shoes, L 728.200 ; tea, coffee, and coooa, L 422.025 ; primary education, L 377,638; imported books, L 173,775. By issuing such leaflets, the significance of which everybody can understand, the Alliance will do much good.