NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6212, 14 October 1881, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A farmers' club is being formed in Tauranga. Fred. Lyster has gone in for management in New York. 1500 cats have been sent from Wellington to the Wairarapa. Dr. Sirnms is at Cooktown, en route for Java and the East. Miss Eloise Juno has been engaged to support Herr Bandmann. M'llle. Charbonnet has settled in Sydney, and is receiving pupils there. It is said that before long Melbourne theatres will be lighted by the electric light. The Lynch Family of Bellringers, after successful seasons at Bowen and Townsvillo, are now at Charters Towers. George Darrell, "the Australian actor," has been engaged as leading man for Fanny Davenport's American Company. The model of a new reaper and binder is being exhibited in Melbourne, which makes | the bands from the crop which it is cutting. Major Mair is at present at Tapapa, investigating a case of obstruction to the constabulary by a native, who makes certain claims. A writer in the Bay of Plenty Times says the Auckland people shut up the harbour as a port of entry, in order to get the trade to Auckland. Walter Reynolds, who is billed as "The English Actor-Author," appeared at the Sydney Queen's in "Tried and True," which has proved a financial success. The New South Wales Post-office authorities stamp envelopes for the public with penny and twopenny stamps free of charge, save the amount of the stamps. The Hon. Mr. Richardson, in a speech at Lyttelton, said he hoped soon to see Lyttelton a naval station, and the terminus of a line of steamers between England and the colony. The English judgment creditors of Henderson, of Ferret notoriety, are sueing in the Victorian law Courts for the bills and other assets in the hands of the detectives. A reward of £2 is offered for such information as will lead to the conviction of the person or persons who broke open and stole the contents of the offertory box at Trinity Church, Tauranga. A Tasinanian hospital scandal has occurred at Hobart; the services for the dead were read over an empty coffin, the body having been secretly delivered to the medical students for dissection. A San Francisco paper, speaking of an expected visit of Signor De Vivo with novelties, says that "De Viyo's boast was wont to be that he never invited the public to an entertainment that was not worth their attention." Mr. Arthur Sullivan is enjoying a cruise with the Duke of Edinburgh in the Reserve Squadron. The'popular composer will visit St. Petersburg/Stockholm, and Copenhagen. He will have every opportunity of studying effects for a new nautical comic opera. Mr. Dion Boucicault has taken his two girls, Patrice and Nina, from the school at which they were being educated in Germany, the one aged sixteen and the other fourteen, and brought them both out on the stage in London, in one of his pieces. He intends to I play them through the English provinces. /