NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6271, 22 December 1881, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tiie latest invention in Dunedin is a steam buggy, which has been designed by Mr. R. J. Scott. The New Zealand Times expresses regret at the departure of Dr. Ncill to take charge of the Dunedin Lunatic Asylum. An application—the first under the new Licensing Act—has been made to the Queenstown Court for a New Zealand wine license, the fee for which is liOs. The Thames Warden notifies that all mining claims, rights, and privileges will be protected from Saturday, 24th December, to January 4th, both days inclusive. Waitekauri is now attracting the notice of miners to a great extent, and almost daily families are removing from the Thames and betaking themselves to this new goldfield. During the past quarter the Otago Kailway Employes' Benefit Society have disbursed £103 as nick aliment. There is a sum of £11S1 13s lid to credit of the society. The road through the Komata is now all but completed, and vehicles of every description will be able in a short time to proceed from the Thames to VVaihi, Tauranga, and Hawke's Bay. Mr. O. Carew Fitzgibbon, son of the late postmaster of the Thames, is suffering from internal hemorrhage, brought on by rupture of a blood vessel, and lies in a dangerous condition at the Thames Hospital. When speaking on tho subject of temperance at the raeetiug of the Dunedin Diocesan Synod lately, the J£ev. R. A. Kerkham stated that the number of convictions for drunkenness in Dunedin for the past year was 1713.

Christmas Beef! Christmas Beef!— Received two first-class prizes and a piece of plate at the Auckland Show for fat oxen. List of prices : —Wholesale : Qr. or side of beef, 2Jd ; carcase of mutton, 2Jd; pigs, a.Jd and 4d. liotuil: Mutton, 2d, 3d, 4d j roast beef, 3£d, 4d, 5d ; pork, 3d to 6d ; lamb, from 2s per qr.; veal, lid to 5d ; large quantities of ox tongues, corncd rounds or beef, salt legs of pork, Canterbury hams, suet in any quantity ; corncd beef, 3d ; in barrels, lOOlbs, 2001bs, and 3Qolhs, 2£d, delivered on boird or railway ; atmospheric sausages, 4d per lb; German sausages, Gd, Discount to the trade. Warrant everything the very best quality.— Gkorqe llulmk, Butcher, Quccn-strcet, Auckland.— fudvt.J In another column will be found a number of fresh testimonials which Professor Gusscott, herbalist, of Sliortland-strect, has received from various individuals, for curing them of dyspepsia, rheumatism, neuralgia, dropsy, asthma, bleeding piles, &c. He announces his maxim as "no cure, no pay," which is one which all professors of the healing art, unfortunately, do not adopt. Professor Guascott states that, unlike othor birds of passage, in the same line, who have preceded him, ho intends to settle permanently in Auckland, and has purchased both landed and household property in the Mount Eden district, which fact should satisfy the public of hU bona fldt* in entering into business here.