BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 9153, 7 June 1893, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

The salary of the chief inspector of .schools in Auckland has been fixed at CoUU a year. "Mr Friend, clerk of the House of Representatives, to seriously ill with internal inflammation. Mr 11. N. Brewer, formerly Collector of Customs at Ouehunga, died there on Tuesday ; aged eighty yearn. Sir Thomas Brown (Brown, Ewing, and Co.) is about to pay a visit to England, and will be away till the end of the year. The Baldwins are to revisit us in 1894. Mr K. Aherne, for many years reporting on the- staff vi the ' Lyttelton Times,' has joined a Christchurch firm as stock salesman. Young Macgregor, the heir to the Caithness estates, will be released from Napier gaol next month. Mr Utiku Potaka, a Maori resident at Rata, Kangitikei, has, it is stated by the 1 Advocate,"' engaged a teacher of painting and the violin to give lessons in these arts to his familv. ' Richard" Bede,' the New Zealand serial story bv Mr John \V. M'Dougall, the wellknown "Hawke's Bay Pressman, which has just been concluded in the ' Hawke's Bay Herald,' is to be published in book form in London and Melbourne very shortly. Mr John Christie, late of Oamaru, is reported bv the ' Oamaru Mail' to have been appointed editor of the Wellington 'Press.' The Uev. Father Donnelly was presented with a purse of sovereigns by his late parishioners at Hyde. The London wheat market shows a decline of 6d per quarter. The Colonial Stock Bill introduced by Mr Graham in the House of Commons will be

•helved for the Bestloa, ,*s the present Is regarded as a most inopportune time to raw th* question. , The witnesses Mr Bees wants examined in England are Mr C. W. Kennedy, who reported on the land tax valuations jn Hawke's Bay, and Chief Judge Smith, of the Native Land Court.

The Green Island School has now been closed for three weeks in consequence of the prevailing epidemic, but the Committee have decided to reopen it on Monday next with whatever number may be in attendance. The Gaiety Company never took less than £2OO a night during their Wellington «;ason, whieh resulted in a clear profit of close on £tJOO.

Wellington is crowded with clerks just now. The numbei- of people who hope to get on either as messengers in the wooden Building of as clerks -during the session: is, amazingly large, while the vacancios arc very few. S. M'Dowell, who was kicked by a horse at Ashburton on Saturday night, died in the local hospital next day. The Dublin Council rejected a motion that congratulatory messages should bo sent to the Queen and the Prince of Wales 0.the occasion of the marriage of the Duke Oi York to' Princess May. News from tho Now Hebrides states that an epidemic of dysentery is prevalent amongst tho Natives, and that 100 deaths are reported at Funa and iifty at Malo. Sir F. Dillon Bell is paying a brief visit to Sydney. "Ameina is worth -17,-t70,W0,000d01.