BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 9501, 25 September 1894, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

The Harbor Board met yesterday and approved of the chairman's action in advertising the local Bill providing for an increase of the harbor rate from 3s to 5s per ton.

The charge of child desertion on which John Buchanan was committed to take his trial in Invercargill has been abandoned. It is stated by the ' Southland News' that notices of action have been served on the Commissioner of Police on behalf of Buchanan, claiming £SOO for alleged malicious prosecution and £SOO for alleged false imprisonment. The Government have informed Mr Carncll that the Napier lighthouse will be removed to Cape Kidnappers. It is believed that recent disasters to vessels bound to Napier would not have happened if there had been a light there. The Hawke's Bay branch of the Educational Institute urge teachers in the district to reply in the negative to the circular from the department asking if they wish to be brought under the Civil Service Insurance Act.

Daniel Munro was arrested in Wellington last night on a charge of being concerned with two others in robbing the cook of the Metropolitan Hotel on the reclaimed ground. Mr T. M. Hardy Johnston, a well-known Indian civil engineer, who has resided in Christchurch for a number of years, died yesterday, aged seventy-eight. It is reported that a party of British and American naval officers quarrelled and came to blows in a hotel in Honolulu, with the result that those engaged were confined on board their respective ships until the latter left there.

The total quantity of wool catalogued in London up to date is 67,200 bales, of which 58,400 have been sold. Cross-breds are >rery firm, and scoureds are selling well.