BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 10401, 24 August 1897, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

Sergeant Mulville transferred from Christcnuroh'to Wellington". The Governor has become patron of the Philatelic Society. The Alameda, with the English mails, left San Francisco on the I9th inst., her due date.

Mr and Mrs Danetord and Miss Frith, of Auckland, who have joined the Poona Village mission in India, left by the Westralia last evening for Sydney tn route for the Geelong Convention. It is probable that the Tutanekai will be sent to Australia to bring Mr Seddon and party to New Zealand. A movement is on foot to have representatives from all the fire brigades affiliated to the New Zealand Fire Brigades’Association in Wellington on the occasion of the Premier’s arrival in Welling-

At the civil sittings of the Christchurch Supreme Court, in the case of Hughes v. Clinton, a claim of £SOO damages for libel, judgment was given for £25 and costs. In divorce, decrees absolute were granted in the cases of Tosswill v. Tdsswill and another and Willis v. Willis. In .the case of Huree v, Hurae, a. wife’s petition, on the ground of cruelty and: adultery, a decree nisi, with custody of the children and costs, was granted.

Messrs Angus and Robertson, of Sydney, contemplate the publication of a volume of the old bush and camp-fire songs of Australia to be edited by Mr A. B, Paterson (“The Banjo”), author of ‘The Man from Snowy River.’ J So hospitable (says the ‘Daily News’) .were the City of London Corporation to the 2,000 persons privileged to see the Jubilee procession from the civic stand at St. Paul’s Cathedral that 1,350 bottles of champagne were opened there.

An Invercargill fishmonger was charged yesterday with exposing unwholesome fish for sale, His counsel contended that the fish, should have been submitted to the magistrate or a justice before the inform*, tion was laid, and that there wa#no proof that the fish condemned by rival tradesmen Were those- that were taken from the accused’s shop. The Court reserved their decision.

It seems that-Mr Ben Tillett was granted a; free pass over the New South Wales railways as a distinguished visitor. Questions were asked on the subject in Parliament, but the lines are under the Commissioners’control, and Ministers “ did not know.”

The Wellington Chamber of Commerce are collecting the portraits of their past presidents, and have already quite a gallerv of them. J

A Wellington up-country settler has willed a portion of his freehold estate to the Wellington Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in recognition of the good work achieved by them.