BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 9774, 2 August 1895, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

Mv Paulin reports that the rainfall during the last month amounted to 4.03 in at Opoho and to 4.44iu at Signal Hill. Mr Charles M'harlane, banjo instructor, has arrived in Dunedin from Tasmania. In that colony, and also in the chief towns of Australia,* Lc has succeeded in forming banjo clubs for the performance of orchestral work.

At a meeting of the Auckland Education Board a motion to the effect that no married female teacher whose husband is alive be employed by the Board was lost by a ma jority of one. The annual report of the Wellington Meal Export Company shows that, after writing off i‘1,809 from building and machinery and adding jCI,/»00 to reserve, a profit is shown of T'l.Udd. A dividend of fi per cent, is recommended. The appointment of Mr IV. C. Neill as United .States Consul at Dunedin is gazetted. The Canterbury W.C.T.U. have written to Inspector Broham stating that the Union demand that the sections of the Criminal Code Act, 1893, against disorderly houses shall be put in force at once, and all such houses within his district be suppressed. If not, the Committee state that the matter will not be allowed to rest, but further steps will be taken.

The tost selection piece for the band contest at Timaru arrived yesterday, and copies are to be sent out at onee.

The Kauri Timber Company state that they will have to shut up their mills if the Canadian treaty is ratified. Other timber companies endorse this view. A stronglyworded petition to Parliament is being signed by operatives at various mills. The Athol correspondent of the ‘ Southland Times,’ in referring to tho unusually large quantity of snow in tint quarter, advises owners of stock grazing near tho Mataura River to dear them off when a thaw sets in, as, he says, the river is sure to rise to a great height.