BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 10783, 18 November 1898, Page 4

BRIEF MENTION.

An arrangement has been com« to between the Wellington Harbor Board and City Council by which a reserve of five acres is to bo set apart along the foreshore between the present Te Aro baths and Fitzgerald’s Paint. New baths aro to be erected on this reserve, and the remaining park is to be sab aside for boats and yachts. Much public satisfaction is manifested in Auckland at the decision of Commissioner Tunbridge in reinstating Constable Skinner, one of the victims of the Albion Hotel episode. He is to report himself at Napier, when he will be placed on duty. It will be remembered that in the fracas at the Albion Hotel Skinner was on street duty. His comrades called upoa him for assistance to arrest one of the civilians in the fracas. Skinner was liable by regulations to heavy penalty if he had refuted to assist.

A woman was convicted of drunkenness at Auckland yesterday for the 120 eh time, her sentences totalling twenty years. A fresh compensation court is to be constituted to hear the Hatun.a Estate case de novo. Each side will appoint G a new assessor, and another judge will be appointed to act as president of the court. It is expected that the rehearing of the case will lake place early next year. Richard Rotting, with 53 votes, elected councillor for West Ward lu the North-east Valky Council. The other candidates were R. D. Thomson (SC votes) and E. Chaplin (15 votes). The election of Mr C. C. Rawlins as member for Tuapeka is gnzuted. An anonymous donor, said to be Colonel Oliver H. Payne, of New York, has just given £350,000 to Cornell University for the endowment of a medical school, to be erected in the City of New Y r ork. The English Postmaster - General (the Duke of Norfolk) is so far satisfied with the iiccesa of the motor mail carts that ha has resolved to extend the experiment. Within the next two months motor postal carts will be seen in the slreote, not only of the metropolis, but of provincial cities. The additional motor cars will be restricted to the parce' post. An ifl irt is being made by Messrs Bell and Rjunlree, settlers on Sunday Island, Kermadec group, to develop the resources of that island.