BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 10149, 30 October 1896, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

At the usual weekly practice of Trinity Wesleyan Church choir, hold last evening, Mr E. D. Mas n was presented by the members with a handsome lamp ami shade ou the eve of his marriage. Mr A. Beck, vice-president, ma le the presentation. Twenty-two truancy eases are set down for hearing at the Police Court to-morrow. The case against Leah ]?ergin, charge 1 with arson at Auckland, was dismissed without.calling for a defence. The volume of postal and telegraph business during the last quarter shows a steadyincrease as compared with the September nuarter last vear.

* The various schemes for the destruction of rabbits received in response to the notice which appeared in the 'Gaz.ttc' for some months were submitted to a committee consisting of Sir James Hector, Messrs W. Fraser and T. Duncan, M II R s, for investigation. The claims numbered forty-six, and the Committee have reported as follows: —•-"That, after having carefully considered the suggestions for the extermination of rabbits made by claimants for the reward ottered by the Government, we are of opinion that no ore of them satisfies the conditions prescribed, consequently we are unable to recommend that any award ha made.''' Tne Christchurch ' Press ? is responsible for the following :—The result of a notice published in Mr Sorrell.s vestibule, to the effect that fortwo days any baby brought to the studio woul.lbe photographed free of charge, was thattlie street was bo blocked with perambulators that a policeman was obliged to clear the entrances to the places of business on cither side.

A breach of promise case ami an action for defamation of character, from Bak-lutha, are set down for hearing at the December civil sittings. The site now chosen for the Bruce Woollen Factory was originally selected by the Mosgiel Woollen Company twenty-six years ago, and was then considered as the best Bite ia Otago for a woollen factor}'. Unfortunately for the Bruce district, negotiations fell through, and a site was selected at Mcsgiel.—' Bruce Herald.'" The names of W. H. Baker and D. W. Kennedy were omitted from the list of pisse3 (second class) in junior Latin at the rec°nt University examinations. The South Australian revenue for the September quarter shows an increasa of £50,0)0 as compared with the corresponding quarter of last, year. The railway receipts are wholly responsible for the increase. The expenditure shows a comparative increase of £37,000.

Miss Margaict Loriincr, M. A, of Christchurch, lias been appointed by the Wellingtin K tU'Mtion IF-:iml as In.ad-mistress of the Mount Cook Girls' .School.

The Lyndon (o..':lvrnmy) the properly" of Mr I>. I>. M'Farhine «*eis destroyed by tiro on Tuesday night. It is believed that a nuni'if-r of shearing machines and a largo quantity of stores were also destroyed.

At 'the Christcluuch Hospital Board a motion asking religious bodies to hold " Hospital Sunday '' annually was lost, the majority of memb?rs thinking the various denominations already had their hands full, and that as a public institution the hospital had no right to call upon the churches for assistance.

The Canterbury Land Hoard have put on record their appreciation of the manner in which the Commissioner (Mr J. W. A. Marchant, who is being transferred to Wellington) hid cairied out his duties