BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 10851, 8 February 1899, Page 1

BRIEF MENTION.

Judgment lus been reserved in the jpp' - union lo the Validation Couoci! at GM'ornc in remove the Hon. J. drroll and Wi I'cri as trustees in a Native trust est at p. Tfce shortening of the Sin Franci; c > mail lime by two day* fiom the colony lo London wsll probib'y be inaugurated next month by the which *ii! not leave Aucl--iandualil Monday, ih« 2ikh prox., in place i,-f the pievou3 Saturday. The change will reduce tha through mail time to Lonoon lo •.huty d:.\s. Th\ Warrimeo brought 350 Virginian quail for the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, and Columbian salmon ova col■>igued to the Minister of Marine. The annual meeting of the 0 ago L*w 3>c;ery was held yesterday at the chamb r room in the Supreme Courthouse. Theie was a good attendance of the members of tl e urofessinn. The following iffije-bearer* were elced for the ensuing year:—Preedent, Mr W. U. Mai-Gn-gor; vice president, Mr J. A. Gj. k ; ;.oa. «-cr-tary and treasurer, Mr F. J. tiuilicg ; m mbers of council—\iewsra S. Bient, F. CaUvr', A C Hauler, J. H. Hoiking, W. A Sim, F. J Siillirg, ind J. F. Wuodhouae.

John Lunion, formerly a member of the House of Rtpruseutativea for the Bay of Islands, died at the Auckland Hospital yes t*>'day of heart disease after a few diy*' illness He arrived io the W»-stmmeter in 1813. He -.erved in Colonel N ; xon's cavalry in tho early part if the Waikato campaign, and w:.s afterwards captain of the Onehanga R fl;s. He took u prominent pirt in local politics in the early days, and was a membtr of the Provincial Council. Durug Sir R. Stout's Premiership he went to Samoa to endeavor to secure annexation of that island to New Zealand. He formed a special settlement north of Auckland. In a test case brought at Stratford to decide whether the local rifle range is saf« the S.M. imposed a fine of Is, and condemned the range in scathing terms as a coastant source of danger and detrimental to property in the vicinity. No_reasonable expenditure could make it safe. ' The club lose heavily by the decision, as large sums have been spent on the range.