NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6146, 29 July 1881, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Chari.es Dillon, the well-known actor, is dead.

The s.s. Piako is ashore amongst the rushes at Maketu.

The cultivation of tea is spoken of as likely to eventuate in the Napier district.

Mr. Fairclough. the tragedian, has received an insolvent certificate in Victoria.

The s.s. Katikati went right up the Maketu river to the Canaan landing last trip. The Otago Daily Times reports that chicory is being successfully grown in the Mataura district.

An Adelaide grain merchant has stated that Victorian wheat this season i 3 superior to their own.

The Ross newspaper concluded its report of tbe Financial Statement with the words, " Yours respectfully, The Treasurer !" According to the Brewers' Guardian, the attention of brewers is more and more directed to lice as a brewing material. There are nearly 100 children in the Lyttelton Orphanage; the exact number being fifty-four boys and forty-four girls. It is said that Mr. R. J. Feltus feels aggrieved at having had his petition thrice neglected. He has now petitioned the Governor.

Cape Egmont lighthouse will be lit on the Ist of August. It will be of the second order, visible sixty nautical miles in clear weather.

"The Press, the only portion of the community," wa3 a sentiment duly honoured at a banquet at Tenterfield (N.S.W.) recently.

According to the Dubbo Despatch the sign for a shanty on the railway line in that locality is a red petticoat and a sardine tin turned up-side down. Mr. J. C. Adams, who is now settled down in his new harness in Auckland, was (says the Taranaki News) ono of the chief movers in the proposition to establish a public library here, and since he left little has been heard of the matter.

Before Mr. William Forstcr left for England to assume the Agent-Generalship he was unable to realise £1200 for his property on the Parramatta. He has now (says a Sydney paper) sold it to speculators for £17,000, and keeps the pick. On the Burdekin, North Queensland, Mr. M'Millan intends to have 1600 acres under sugar-cane in 1883. At present he has a steam plough at work, besides 40 teams, all engaged preparing the land for planting. On the Herbert two or three Melbourne capitalists are forming two large plantations. ...

... In.. returning thanks lately for a testiiaonial^'Hr Walker, late cashier to Messrs. shipbuilders, Glasgow, [ s£ated;ffiab>ylienhe entered the office, thirty'ago, the pay of thirty-seven L-inen : -,th'eri in the establishment was £47 |"ls"-5!d; and when he retired, on the 31st l.Agarch, 1881, the fortnightly pay to 4020 nien amounted to £11,242 16s 3d. '

The Argus says that the Princes' may return in the Bacchante, via the Suez Canal, while the rest of the fleet-go by the Cape of Good Hope. On the. arrival of the Bacchante at Home Prince Albert Victor' will quit the navy and complete his education on shore. His.brother. will probably remain at sea until, like his uncle, he rises, to a position of eminence in the service. V '•■;'■ . "-' "'•'■".

■It is rumoured that' several Tauranga gentlemen are /seriously 1 'considering the question of Ughting the town, with gas. ■ Mr. E. Graham^of Lalse-House, Ohinemutjuj contemplates lighti[n^;Jiis r building with one of the Alpha patents," and, no doubt, the example set by. Mr. Wrigley will be .followed by many other hotelkeepera in'the district/ .■ . '