BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 9689, 6 May 1895, Page 4

BRIEF MENTION.

Mr Fish has been appointed chairman of the Domain Board.

Informations have been laid against Alexander Cunningham and Edward M Intosh for selling whisky and beer at the refreshment rooms at the Miramar (Wellington) trotting meeting on Thursday last.

H. Placke, a young Dutch swimmer, is anxious to make a match to swim Cook Strait.

Auckland shopkeepers opposed to compulsory Saturday closing show a disposition to fight the matter to the bitter end, and are forming a defence league for that purpose.

New Plymouth bondholders have requested the Hon. Mr Ward to agree to refer to arbitration the question as to the right of holders to regain the original land endowments, and are dissatisfied with his offer to refer the matter to the Government. Bondholders are pressing their claims urgently.

The Victorian Horticultural Society’s soft fruit ex- Thermopylae failed. The apples and pears, Ijowever, arrived in London in excellent condition. The major portion of consignment stores of Victorian raspberry pulp sold at £25 10s.

Butter (Austialian choicest) is increasing in demand at Home. The price is n noted as 80s. 1

Oscar Wilde has been admitted to bail, himself in £2,500 and two sureties in £1,250. The Canadian deficit amounts to four and a-half million dollars. The Government propose a duty 7 of hj per cent, per lb on raw sugar.

Count Kalnoky has resigned owin" to Herr Banflya, the Hungarian Premier, having prematurely stated that the former had protested to the Italian Government against the action of the Papal Nuncio in Vienna in fostering clerical agitation against the Hungarian Government.

The Afghans are willing to surrender Umra Khan to the British when it is desired, and it is expected that a claim will be made shortly.

The Dunedin Pigeon and Canary Club’s annual Derby Pigeon-flying Match resulted rn a tie between N. Reid and G. Fraser’s birds. In the fly-ofi G. Fraser’s Francotte won with a velocity of 1,220 : ’-yds per minute, N. Reid’s White Squall second with l,ol(j : i'yds per minute.

Hie Central Broken Hill Company have pvr- based tho Broken Hill Extended mine. Extensive deep sinking has so far failed to discover the lode on the property. The purchasing price is stated to be under £1,500. No trace has been found of Dooley, who murdered his wife and mother-in-law in Melbourne, though a report, which is not confirmed, says that he committed suicide by jumping overboard from a harbor steamer.

It is not generally known that the St Clair baths are the “property of the Ocean Reach Domain Board. At the meeting of that body on Friday last it was decided to write to the Cavorsharu Council for information as to the amount of revenue and expenditure in connection with the baths durino the past two years, and Mr Fish suggested that the Board should take steps to acquire the management of them in the future. Upwards of thirty Victorian farmers have settled in the Culcairn (N.S.W.) district, and 50,000 acres have been taken up. Others are arriving in the Wallawalla district every week, and the clearing of new land is progressing rapidly. The steamer Kelles, from the Solomon Islands, picked up three Frenchmen at Marua Sound. They slated that they had been aiiven froui \ i!a Harbor during a while fishing. They were twenty-two davs in the small boat, and endured terrible sufferings before they reached Marua. They refused a passage to Sydney, preferring to remain at tlie Solomons.

Tho missing fishermen fund will benefit to the extent of £7 Si 4d by the Engineers’ Baud open-air concert at St. Clair yesterday afternoon.

It is stated that the Municipal Corporations Bill will be reintroduced in the same form as it was printed last year. Portion of the expedition which left Dunedin on the 28rd ult. returned to town on Saturday night, well satisfied with the results obtained. Milford Sound and Lakes Tc Anau and Manapouri were visited. Tho overtaxed ratepayers of Oamaru are to have a reduction of Is in the £ in the rates for the ensuing year.