BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 87, 17 April 1895, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

Lovely waather now: a calm after the storm, The weather was good all over the colony this morning. Bealy (38), Queenstown (42 ), and Christchuroh (43-) were the loweßt temperatures. Blenheim stood at 51*. 11 Calm" was registered at a great many places this morning ; at otber stations the wind was still southerly. Easter Sunday is always the firßt Sunday after the first Friday following the first full moon after the 22nd Maroh. The recent gale haß been rough on the fruit trees. A great many have been damaged, or torn up by the roots. A well-known member of the Batepayers' Association wrote on his oheque for rates the other day, " Pay these d rates." The duok liar is greatly m evidenoe jußt now. Out of 141 candidates for the Sydney University matriculation examinations, 111 passed. Locusts are very numerous m th 6 Mildura distriot of Viotoria, and are eating tbe raising whioh are m prooesß of drying. In the Houae of Commons, referring to the new Speaker, Sir Wm. Haroourt considers the opposition to Mr Gully as a portion of a long intrigue which has created an evil preoedent. He says Mr Balfour has been guilty of a departure from the best parliamentary form. The Canterbury Bugby Union now numbers 2000 members. A shark 10ft lung was oaught off Oamaru j Breakwater last week. A man named Samuel Annear was drowned at Yamba, New South Wales, the otber day, while about to engage m a swimming matoh. About 50 new members have been eleoted to the Wairarapa Hunt Olub. The export of hops from Nelson last month amounted to 326 bales. The approximate value of silver ore exported from the west coast of Tasmania duriDg March was £18,720, Cook (who has an attaok of palpitation as she is walking down the street) :— " Dear, dear, how my heart beats. There must be a barraoks somewhere near. The loss of the New York banks by the stealings of their own offiaera during the past ton years has amounted to £1,500,000. The indemnity demanded from China by Japan amounts to nearly £73,000,000. Between 1870 and 1890 over 7000 patentß were granted m Europe and America for various devices oonneoted with eleotrio lighting. A Palmerston hotel-keeper bas offered to provide a site almost free of oost for the construction of an opera hou3e m the borough. A game of fan tan down South the other day was varied by a fight, during whioh a Chinaman got his nose bitten througb. Oscar Wilde had a distinguished University career. He gained a scholarship and tbe Berkeley gold medal at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Oxford oarried off the Newdigate prize for English verse.