BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 8789, 1 April 1892, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

The High School at Balolutha is to be opened with some ceremony on the 22 nd lost.

A Dumber of workmen having declined to work for a farmer at Gore on Sunday last were dismissed from his service. So the • Clntha Leader' declares.

Thank* to the activity of Mr T. Mackenzie, M.H.R., a public gymnasium is likely to be built at Balclutha,

The ' Clutha Leader,' which over ten years ago supported the establishment of Arbor Day, is glad to hear that the proposal is being favored by the Government, and that there is now a probability of it becoming a colonial institution. It is officially annonnced that the Government do not intend introducing a School Committees' Election Bill this session.

Mr W. Hutchison, M.H.R., has gone North to explain to the members of the police at Christchurch and Wellington the provisions of his Police Superannuation Bill. Acting on the suggestion of the Rev. James Chisholm, of Milton, a private conference of Presbyterian ministers will be held in Dunedin during Easter week. The object is to stir up one another to love and good works, and (adds the * Presbyterian') the idea has been received with the moßt cordial sympathy. For the eleven months ended February 20 the railway revenue was L 9.781 below the estimate. Trains resume running to Hakateremea to-morrow. The ' Presbyterian' regrets that the annual session of their Theological College is not formally opened with an address from one of the professor?. In the south-western islands of Japan the women are the laborers. Their hands are rough and tanned with heavy work, while the men's are delicate and white.