BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Volume 8505, Issue 8505, 2 May 1891, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

Lord and Lady Onslow have arrived at Dargaville, having travelled overland from the Bay of Islands, The two seamen of the barque Broomhall, who were arrested at Auckland for alleged broaching of cargo, have been discharged. The creditors in the bankruptcy estate of Mrs Letitia Brown, of Auckland, hotelkeeper, "have decided to take legal proceedings against Mrs Thompson, a debtor, for the recovery of LIOO. This money was delivered by Mrs Brown to Mrs Thompson, but the latter states she lost it in the street, Mr H. L. Christie, of Saddle Hill, was yesterday appointed ranger for the Taieri County Council. There were thirty-nine applications for the appointment. Further evidence in support of the charge against Captain Verney, M.P., has been taken by the London Bench, and the accused committed for trial. The Court fixed the bail at L 15,000, and as Captain Verney succeeded in getting sureties for that amount he was liberated.

The Taieri Poultry and Canary Show has been fixed for July 25. The Dunedin Poultry, Pigeon, Canary, and Dog Society will hold a social on the second night of their show. The president, finding it impossible to proceed to Christchurch as a delegate to the Kennel Club, Mr Carlton will go in his place.

The following “par among the chit-chat in the column's of the ‘ Glasgow Herald ’ of March 7: —“ I have just seen a letter from J. L. Toole to a Scottish friend, in wbich be mentions that of all countries on the other side of the world he likes New Zealand best.”

Mr Carnoross, M t H.R., will represent Mosgiel Borough at the Municipal Conference.

Sergeant-major Towler, who has been transferred from Mosgiel to Dunedin, will have charge of the defence stores. Inspector Bain has furnished the Taieri County Council with an exhaustive report on the present condition of the premises adjoining the Eaikorai Stream, and has been instructed to take legal proceedings (after consultation with the county solicitors) in any glaring case of pollution. At auction in London on March 10 a pound of tea leaf from Ceylon was sold at the rate of 212s per lb. The precious “golden tips,” as the extreme ends of the small succulent shoots of the plant are called, came from Gartmore, and were disposed of by Messrs Gow, Wilson, and Stanton in the Commercial Tea Sale Rooms. The first offer was LI Is, but the price and excitement of the dealers soon rose, until the latter reached the point of fever heat, and the former the unprecedented figure of LlO 12s fid per lb, at which it was purchased by a Ceylon tea company in London. Miss Jessie Higgins recommended for the vacancy in the Round Hill School staff. The rabbit and stock inspectors in charge of. provincial districts have not only been reduced in status but in salary, The ‘Tnapeka Times’ mentions that Chiefinspector Douglas has been transferred from Dunedin to Timarn, and his salary lowered from to L2OO a year. This rule has been applied all mpufi. Mrs Worth, wife of the great Parisian dressmaker, dresses as plainly as a Bibleclass at a Martha’s vineyard camp meeting, and looks as quietly innocent as If she never saw a fashion book or read the dry goods advertisements in the papers.