BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXIX, Issue 183, 26 July 1893, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

To relieve the unemployed m Napier the Borough Council deoided to start at once the laying of mains for new waterworks plant and thirty men wera put on m the town. A Rifle Association has been formed m Auckland for the promotion ol competition rifla praetiea with the Australian colonies. Provision is made foi Bending teams to England if needed. A peculiar case h«s arisen at Johnsonville, a village near Wellington. A public meeting was held to consider a statement made by a resident that one of his children had died from a cold contracted through being made to sit near a broken window _m the State school. A motion waß carried exonerating the Committee and teachers from blame. Cardinal Mortn's illness is said jto have been caused by overwork m connection with his history of the Roman Catholic Church m Australia. News from Central America states that the President of San Salvadorn has executed twenty-three of the leaders m the recent revolt. For assisting the lonio when she broke her Bhaft off Capetown the Hawarden Castle has been awarded £7000. Of this amoont £5600 goes to the owners, and the rest to the captain and crew. The Auokland Employers' Association has agreed that the present Shop Assistants Act gave every facility to assistants m shops for a weekly half-holiday. The remains of a Mrs Limmer, the wife of a settler at Motueka, who was suffering from melancholia, and left her home m May last, have been found concealed m a gorae hedge. The flesh was off the bones, but the clothing was identified. The jury returned an open verdict with a rider that gross negligence had been shown by those who had chsrgs of her. The Church of All Hallows, London, still possesses an income originally given to it for the purpose of buying faggots for burning heretics. Curiously enough, says an exohange, the two newly elected members of the House ol [Representatives, Sir Robert Stout and Mr Willis, are vice-presidents of tha Naw Zealand Free-thought Association, The medical men of Christchurch are said to charge the lowest fees of any practitioners m New Zealand. Their scale of charges is stated to be 3s 6d to 59 6d a visit, as against 7s 6d to 10s 6d m other towns.