BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 9832, 22 October 1895, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

Constable Creeks, of Napier, endeavored on Sunday night to arrest several larrikins who were drunk and creating a disturbance, when he was knocked down and kicked, and had his collar-bone broken. John Legeyt, charged with inflicting the injury, stands remanded for a week. Mesdames Sinclair and Rossini were charged yesterday at Wellington with ander* taking to tell fortunes. Mr Martin bound them over to come up for sentence when called npoD. The Brough and Boucicault Company brought their season at Auckland to a close on Monday night with a "bumper" house, which established a record attendance.

Efforts are being made in Brisbane to purchase the libraiy of the late Mr Justice Harding, and to form the nucleus of a free public library. Everywhere but Dunedin. The racing ya'cht Valkyrie 111. carries a crew of forty hands, and it takes quite this number to reef her mainsail. Even with I his crowd she has only one man to every 3ft of boom, and that is about the allowance of hands on the topsail yard of a sailing Bhip. Professor Black starts to-morrow for the Thames goldfield to spend a three months' holiday^ Splendid rains have blessed the district about Ngapara, Mr T. Bracken has been adjudged bankrupt at Wellington. The Waitaki is in flood, therefore not at its best for anglers.