NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6288, 12 January 1882, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Bishop Moran is expected in Dunedin this month. A gooseberry tree near Oamaru measures 57 feet in circumference. We believe that Plummer will be sent down to Lyttelton Gaol to serve his sentence. It is stated that the Chrislchurch volunteers are taking steps to obtain a new range for rifle-shootiug. The Ven. Archdeacon Butt, of Marlborough, is making a trip Home, after forty years in the colony. He leaves his family here. Herr Wilhelmj, who has been delighting us with his violin playing, is an enthusiastic numismatist. He ie the possessor of a goodly collection of old coins. We hear that a good many deaths have occurred in Newton from fever. This is said to be owing to the bad drainage, and there being no water supply. Mr. George V. Stewart is at present on the Thames, and has, with the object of starting a fish-curing industry at Tauranga, engaged the services of men on the Thames acquainted with the business. Here is a specimen sentence from a New South Wales legislator:-—" The foul fiend that has stalked through a damning catalogue of crime iD all the ages up to the throat in gore of the innocent and the pure." A few dayg ago an attempt was made to plant a swag, containing six bottles of brandy, 300 figs of tobacco, and parcels of tea, coffee, cocoa, pepper, and mustard on the works, at Pentndge by a discharged prisoner. ■; ; ' . . The number of declarations of insolvency filed in the Supreme Court of the colony during the year 1880 was. 7.77,, the assets in ■.which,: as shown by lists-,and statements filed, amounted in the aggregate to £600,525 17s Id, and the liabilities to £689,428 16s 2d, the deficiency being £88,902 19s Id. A wretch in the : male form (says the Melbourne Mail), describing himself as a husband's friend, writes in a Sydney paper that "the intrinsic value of a five-guinea bonnet i» about 7s 6d or (say) 10s, eren reckoning the labour." He calls the balance " unearned increment." '