BRIEF MENTION

Evening Star, Issue 10808, 17 December 1898, Page 3 (Supplement)

BRIEF MENTION

Those wbo have failed to pay their dog tax to tho Koalyn Borough Council are to be summoned.

As a result of the recent report by Inpector Uuilen and the traffic inspector the licenses of twenty-one Auckland cabmen have been cancelled and eight cabs have been condemned.

Tne appeal cases against convictionß for sly grog-selling at Clinton and Balclutha were called on ab the Supreme Court yesterday, when it was stated by Mr Fraser, who represented the Crown, that he had the previous day received intimation of the discontinuance of these appeals. Costs (seven guineas) were given against the appellant in each case.

The Auckland Masonic lodges under the English Constitution have unanimously decided to remain loyal to the Home lodge.

In a discussion on the state of the Auckland city burgess roll it was stated that City North was as bad as City South, and that there were thirty dead men on the Ponsonby Ward roll.

Mr R. Watson has been appointed the Roslyn delegate to the oonference for fixiug the weekly half-holiday. The St. Kilda Borough Council have decided to advertise for tenders both in the colony and at Home for the supply of iron pipes, etc., for the purpose of reticulating the streets of the borough with water ; tenders to be returnable within four months from date.

A sittiDg of the Auckland Compensation Court is now b.'ing held to hear a claim made by Alexander Watson, of Devonport, against the Minister of Public Works for £1,750 damages for land taken for defence purposes at North Head. The area is over one rood. The Government offer £7O(X Messrs Charles Riilttone and William Patton (of Otsgo) been granted certificates as mine mapagers.

During a thunderstorm in the Wyndham district on Tuesday and Wednesday a horse owned by Mr John Stirling "vas k'lled by lightning, and three sheep on ihn R'sburn Estate mp.t n <on»)l-ir f.v"c.

The French papers are making some comical mistakes oyer the new title of the Sirdar of the Egyptian forces, who is after all to be known as Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, and Aspall, in the County of Suffolk. (The latter title should dispose of the question of the Sirdar's birthplace.) They have, called him Sir Herbert, Sir Dar, and Milord Khartoum of Kitchener. Sir Gladstone has been heard qf., but Sir, Pat fairly takes the cake. Ore Smith, Glendining, ond Sidey havo been appointed by the Caveroham Council to draw up a statement of faota concerning the nightsoil contract and submit the same to the solicitors for their opinion. The St Kilda Borough Council have deolded to advertise both in the colony and at Home for the supply of iron etc., for the purpose of reticuUsag the streets of the borough water > tenders to be returnable within four months from date. The battleship Irresistible has been launched, at Chatham,