BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 10182, 8 December 1896, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

The winter and autumn lambing returns for New South Wales this year show a substantial increase over these for the same period of last year. A Record Attendance Elizabeth Cowio, a pupil attending the Albany street School, has not once been absent from her class for eight years. At Mr M‘Lean'3 final meeting at Napier Mr J. Griffeu proposed the vote of confidence in the candidate, remarking that he had been taunted that morning by one on the opposite side with being MrM‘Lean’s “stable boy.” But his reply to his tormentor had been “ Yes, and I mean to turn him out so fit that he’ll take every hurdle in his stride, and I’ve told the jockey to make every post a winning post.” This rally was received with great applause, the motion being carried (remarks the ‘ Herald ’) amid a scene of the wildest enthusiasm ever seen in Napier, the ladies rising and waving their handkerchiefs.

Mr Justice Williams presided over the meeting of the Patients’ and Prisoners’ Aid Society held yesterday afternoon. The report (already printed) was adopted, and the following oliice-bearers appointed for Ihe ensuing year:—President, Mr Justice Williams ; vice-president, the Hon. Thomas Dick ; hon. treasurer, Mr Walter Hislop ; committee—Messrs George Fenwick, A. Barr, E. E. C. Quick, K. Chisholm, C. Moore, A. S. Paterson, Peter Duncan, W. Gow, E. R. Smith, Captain Thomson, Dr Hislop, and the Hon. W. D. Stewart, with power to add to their number. A fast-class judge of cattle, who has been attending shows in this and other colonies for twenty-three years, slates that the exhibits of fat stock at the show at Wellington were the best he had seen south of the line.