BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 9771, 30 July 1895, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

A Macleay (N.S. W.) clergyman possesses a Leghorn hen which has set up a record for egg-laying. No less than ‘2-80 eggs were laid in quick succession. Dr Mirb-ioh, formerly of Woodville, has returned to Russia.

In a letter to Sir Henry Burkes, Lord Jersey states that the governorship of New South Wales cost him £7,000 a year, which is understood to mean in excess of the salary. Among the new sculptors exhibiting in the new gallery, London, this year, is Miss Agatha Catlev. of Nelson. Mr Basil Tebbs, who was educated at Auckland Grammar B’ehool and Auckland University, was placed iu the first class of the natural science tripos at Cambridge. He is on the books of Queen’s College. Sir Robert Stout will defend Somerville charged with the Masterlon murder. Mr K, J. Mules, a son of the Bishop of Nelson, has passed his B A. degree at Cambridge. He was an ex-pupil of NeknU College. Mr T. M. Harrison, a member of the Canadian Bar, has settle l ! at Auckland. A large consignment of imported “ cognac” from Sydney was seized at Melbourne as being unfit for human consumption.

, Mr T. Callender, “ the father of curling, has been presented with a silver hot water kettle and drinking cup by the Mount Ida, Otago Central, Upper Manuhcrikia, and Blackstouo Hill Curling Clubs. While the late John Walter was alive the London ‘Times’ always ignored the Newspaper Press Fund. But last month a report of the Fund’s annual dinner appeared in the columns c-f the Thunderer—a remarkable break in tho continuity of the tradition in Printing-house square. Mr J. T. Phillips (surveyor) and party have returned to Auckland from the Uriwera country, the triaugulation of that district being practically completed. The Christchurch City Council have expressed the opinion th.it the Rating on Unimproved Values Bill is mwa/led for.

Mr F. Ncwcombe, M.A., if Auckland, has been appointed head-master of the Waverley (Wanganui) School. The Lowborn School Committee have selected Mr David Stewart for the position of head-master. The New South Wales Government Savings Bank authorities have decided not to permit municipal councils to deposit at interest sums exceeding £2OO.

The costs of the Dean Commission in Sydney will be. say, £‘2,500 The yearly salary of the judge, who baa caused this ex cense to the province is £2,000. Perth (Western Australia) is suffering from a brick famine, the supply having been completely exhausted owing to the extensive nature of b dkling operations.

There has been an increase of 24 per cent, in the number of dairy cows in the colony during the past year, and an increase of 22 per cent, in cattlo and IS per cent, in milking cows. Melbourne annually eats 80,01)0 cattle and 1,200,000 sheep and lambs, yet, according to T. K. Bennett, a leading meat man, there is inspectorial supervision at only one of the abattoirs.

The idea of a carriage drive to the Springs, Mount Wellington, Hobart, to be constructed by prison labor, is once more revived. The Surveyor-General thinks it might bo continued up the mountain. Charlotte Taylor has died at tho Castle-

Maine Benevolent Asylum, in Victoria, at the age of ninety-eight. The deceased belonged to a long-lived family, her brother having reached the age of 100. Finlay v. Thomson, a libel case in which £IOO damages are claimed, is to be heard before Judge Ward at Queenstown tomorrow. Mp Hanlon is retained by the plaintiff. Fifty-three cases of Martini-Henry rifles came out by the Tainui for the Defence Department.