NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6062, 22 April 1881, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Dβ. Simms, the physiognomist, is successfully lecturing at Wellington; '. Mr. Blackctt is hopeful of having the "iron horae" running as far as Hawera in. June. . ~..■••'• The American Commission on Bible Re-, vision says the revised Bible will not be ready for several months. Mr. J. Mackay, M.A., of Aberdeen, and 15 yearn at Nelson College, has been appointed head-master of Wellington College. Under instructions from Wellington. iiu-. thorities the police and the Bench are making a raid at present on the Industrial Schools in order to enforce the maintenance orders. The Sydney Coffee Tavern Company have leased the premises adjoining their present establishment, and have about twenty additional bedrooms. This is a sign of progress. -..-.. At the recent meeting o£ the South, Canterbury Education Board the Chairman mentioned that an individual had imposed on them by producing certificates that were subsequently proved to be forgeries. A Canadian paper asserts that Dr. Duff, son of the late Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church, has, with his wife and family, been received into the Roman Catholic Church in New Zealand. . Messrs. Guthrie and Larnach have been very unfortunate in the matter of fires during the past six months. The mill destroyed at the Manukau Heads is the third loss they have sustained during that period. _A requisition has been forwarded to Captain Jackson Barry by the leading residents of. Green Island, expressing their dosire to hearrone of hie lectures before his departure for New South Wales. . Kentucky holds the scales of justice level (says an American paper) by acquitting every white man who is known to have committed murder, and by lynching every coloured man who is suspected of having committed a disturbance of the peace. The Education Department is going to keep a black list. The Minister, has sent a circular to the several Education Boards them to . furnish him with a liat periodically _ of teachers who have been disBussed for disgraceful conduct.