BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 9915, 29 January 1896, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

Dr Brown, of Dunedin, will bo one of the Government representatives at the Medical Congress. A conference of Australian librarians is to bo held at Melbourne on April 14, under the presidency of Sir John Downer, of Adelaide. It will then be proposed to found an Austrabs'anlibrary association on the l'nes of the Librarian Association of the United Kingdom.

The Hon. Mr Cadman will remain several days in the Waikato district, as he intends to look into the sugar beet question. At Aldershot the other day Private Pugh, South Wales Borderers, was watching a football match, when he laughed so heartily that he burst a blood vessel and expired immediately. An auction sale of Wellington City and suburban properties, under instructions from the Realisation Board of the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company, was held yesterday. None of the city properties reached the reserve figure, and consequently they were all passed in, but in some instances private offers are likely to be accepted. The suburban lots met with a ready sale.

Mr John Roberts when in London arranged for the shipment of twenty pairs of ducks (eight pairs golden-headed widgeon and twelve pairs English mallards) and twelve pairs partridges. These were put on board the Mamari on the 3rd December. On her arrival last Sunday at Port Chalmers the Otago Society received twenty-nine ducks and twenty partridges, eleven of the ducks and four of the partridges having died. Tho birds alive were in excellent condition. The ducks, half of which arc for the Southland Society, will have to be confined until after next moulting season. The ten pairs of partridges were liberated yesterday on the Taieri Plain