BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXX, Issue 40, 16 February 1894, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

Thk s.b. Bimutaka arrived at Rio on the 18th instant. 114 women were sWuok off the Wairaa rdll, and 124 off the Waimea-Bounds for not voting. The arrivals m New Zealand m January irers 2733, and the departures 1748. The Auckland Education Board, are about lo undertake a searching enqairy into the system of conducting standard and eoholarahip examinations. A writ claiming £3000 damages for libel has been issued against the proprietor of the Auckland Star, at the instance of Mr T. C. Kary the New Guinea explorer. Martini ammunition is to be obtained from Melbourne, by the Government at once. The Governor received a "hearty reoeption ' at Gisborne yesterday. The usual addresses, •t0.,. All the rivers were ctoieable this morning. A youth named Thomas Wilson, licensed ont from Burnham Industrial School to a farmer at Springaton, died at the Hospital yesterday from peritonitis, the result of eati>g unripe fruit. A the new rush at Crayfish Island. PreMrvation Inlet a party secured 44ozs m nine days. A 13£oa nugget was found. An eighteen months child m Wellington fell into a closet, and was suffocated. The Mayor of Wellington told the counoil ihey had no control over the licensing eleotion, but would have to pay the cost, estimatsd at £100. . General indifference is being shown throughout the Colony to the lioensing •lections, whioh take place next month. Over £150,000 has been advanced by Messrs Lovell and Christmas, of London, for bmtter and oheese made m Taranaki daring the season.— Taranaki Herald. Arobdeacon Harper, of Timaru, is being put forward for the Deanery of Dunedin. Mrs Dedbroke : " What is meant by preferred creditors?" Mr Dedbroke: "The ones that don't bother you, usually." Mr Jnstin McCarthy, M.P.: "The House of Commons is almost the noisiest and rudest Legislative Assembly with which I have any manner of personal acquaintance." A ratepayer writes to the Southland News oomplaining of the nuisance caused by a man who insists upon delivering at Mb door copies of a paper called the Prohibitionist. •' Why is a bald head like Paradise ?" asked ths father of the lately deceased Earl of Derby. The answer was, " Because it is a bright shining place where there is neither parting nor dyeing " Nearly all the greatest men of the world m all ages have had blue eyes. Quite correot; we have 'em. It is stated that Mrs Femmel, of Wellington, who gave her child an overdose of morphia for dysentry, resulting m his death, will be prosecuted for manslaughter. The Wellingon publio have enjoyed a treat with the Brough and Boaoicault Company's performances, and showed their appreciation by packing the htuses night after night. Active resistance — alike on ecclesiastical, architectural, archaeological, and artistic grounds— is being organised to the proposed demolition of several old city ohurohes m London, which have virtually no congregations, and whioh block the way to desirable improvements. The latest form of the reBißtance consists m the simultaneous offering of speoial prayers to the Throne of Grace 1 There is some talk of the Auokland Trotting Club importing one of the new starting machines recently tried with success m Victoria. The Dnke of Portland is said to have an inoome of £30,000 per annum from stud horses, the original outlay at most not being £500 m all. In Sydney, says the Australasian Star, there is a jockey by the name of Death (a New Zealand boy, by the way). At Wyndhaos, on Saturday, a man named Coffin rode a horse called Thornbury, The value of the stakeß won on the British turf during the year J893 amounted to £457,939, of whioh £428,391 represented England's share, £18,441 was run for m Inland, and £11,107 m Scotland. Advertisement from Melbourne Argus :— 11 A regularly ordained clergyman is prepared to marry couples for 10s 6d, wedding ring 5t 6d extra."