BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXIX, Issue 201, 16 August 1893, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

Through communication from Auckland to the Waikato is not likely to be established for a fortnight. Mr Courtney's party of immigrant?, 72 adults and two children, arrived at Auckland by the Ruahine, and went on to New Plymouth by the Takapuna yesterday. The Auckland Board of Education have again rejected Bishop Luck's application that tbe Board's Inspectors inspect the Roman Catholic schools, and informed him that no private schools are inspected by the Board's Inspectors. At Napier a cremation society ie projected. There have recently been a good many deaths from diphtheria at FeildiDg. It is intended to institute a female Court of Foresters in Westport in connection with the Ancient Order of Foresters. A gold thief near Westport stole 40oz of gold from an unfortunate miner's boxes. " I have heard that the present Ministry is a one-man Ministry, and that man is not in the Ministry."— Colonel Fraser. The wallabies liberated Borne years ago by the late Mr M. Studholme on the Waimate Hills have now inoreased so as to afford good shootiDg. Mr O'Conor says the House keeps its officers workiDg for a length of time^ which any private employer would be put in gaol for allowiDg. A Wellington telegram says that a number of ferrets have taken up their abode in the Wellington cemetery. The present session of Parliament will probably be brought to a close in about a fortnight. It is reported in New Plymouth that the authorities have ordered Wallath to be kept in irons till bis trial. An agricultural editor says that the best article he evtr saw on milk was oream. Some city people think that it is not very widely copied.