BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 9878, 14 December 1895, Page 4

BRIEF MENTION.

The recent scale of work at All; Saints' Ladies' Guild, together with other contributions, resulted in the sum of £l4O being applied to the reduction of the debt. , The recent race between automobiHc' carriages from Paris to Bordeaux and badfe again seems to have proved the incontestable superiority of the petroleum, which can ;be run for five or six hours with a fewypints of gasoline, and will maintain an average rste of speed of fifteen miles an hour. The cjtfriages are so light that they can .he/inn on rubber and even with pneumatic tyres, ;A writer in one of the magazines ventures'to anticipate that before many years are over the cab-horse will have become a thing of, the past, and that, with noiseless vehicles in the streets of London, the city will become las silent as it is now deafening in its neverceasing roar of traffic. ', A young man was charged at the Palmer* ston Court on Thursday with furiously riding a bicycle. The facts showed that defendant was riding down a hill at a good bat with his feet off the pedals, when be lightened a horse, which jumped up in the tap and then fell dead. The magistrate reserved his decision. •.>."■;

Dunean Campbell, belonging to the brigan tine M. A. Doran, waß drowned from the vessel at Aratapu (Auckland). The evidence showed that Campbell had been drinking with others till cross a plank about 9in wide, used as a gangway, be was thrown into the river by the plank slipping on the deck, and was drowned despite the effortß of the men on board to rescue him. A verdict of "Accidentally drowned while under the influence of liquor " was returned. Deceased had been discharged from the schooner G|eanor recently at Wellington. Mr Timson will, as usual, have charge of the music on the s.s. Tarawera during the West Coast Sounds excursions.

The Kaikorai School breaking up takes place on Wednesday next l —the infant classes to be dismissed in the afternoon and the senior classes at 7 p.m. The ceremony will be held in St. John's Hall.

Captain Fairchild's departure for London to bring out the new cable steamer 'is postponed until January 16 The Kaikorai School Committee- met last night. The master's report showed that the numbers on the roll >. for the month were: Boys 418, girls 405 ; t0ta1,.823. The average attendance was 759. It was decided to give prizes for the gymnastio class as usual, the arrangements being•.; left in the hands of the chairman. Messrs DijnoiMi arid Moir appointed, a visiting oointnitteo for i he ensuing month. Wi''.°" At the invitatlon : of Mr ft. J l . TendalJ, Mus. Bao., organist of Ohristojmroh Oathedra', Mr Jesse Timson will give an organ recital in the above cathedral early in. January. - At a meeting of the Council of the Institute of Accountants, held at Wellington, it was resolved that the first examination be held in May, 1896, at which only those seeking admission as fellows should sit. It was also agreed that the questions in mathematics and law should not be too stiff, but that the purely accountancy Bide of the paper should be of a high standard. The first examination for associates and students is to be held in June.