NEWS IN BRIEF

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6816, 21 September 1883, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF

A chkss tournament is projected at the Thaires. Mr. J. Lomas has. arrived at Opunake as Wesleyan missionary. Wahanui ie at present at Mokau, where a large Maori meeting will tako place. The railway between New Plymouth and Motu'roa is to be proceeded with at once. A woman in Adelaide has committed suicide while suffering from religious mania. A magnificent Aurora Australia was witnessed in Auckland or.e morning this week. £90,000 has been passed for Stats echool buildings throughout the colony of Victoria. At Melbourne a woman has been sent to gaol for a month for setting a dog on a canstable. Mr. Bowron, the Government lecturer on cheese and butter factories, ia to visit Feilding shortly. It is expected that the steamship Doric will be ready to sail for Wellington and Lyttelton to-day about noon. Mr. S. Thorne George, will address the electors in the Public Hall, Warkworth, on Tuesday evening next. Daring last week there was shipped from Waitara, for Onehunga, upwards of 200 head of cattle, 1400 sheep, and 20 horses. The Adelaide cleigy are supporting the Hon. J. Colton in his efforts to render tho laws against violation of women more stringent.

Men are employed getting the Domain ground iu order for the cricket season. The grass has grown nicely, and a good tarf ia promised. Dr. VV. C. Palmer, of America, well known in religious literary circles, and as an evangelist working in connection with his wife, died on the 20th July. Whampos, Cbang-cbow, Woo-sung, and Hoi-how are the names of the new steamers of the China Navigation Company, to trade between China and Australia. It is reported that some of the girls in the Melbourne factories work thirteeu and fourteen hours » day for a wage of 5s a week. Th<?y prefer this to " service !" Berry and Cal aghau, the racing candi-. dates at the New Plymouth Municipal election, triumphed over Davidson aad Ward, who were backcd by the " unco good " folk. Mr. Albert Bayly, a fuw days ago, purchased 159 hoiß<s froui the natives at Witiora and Umuroa. .£1 per head all round is the Btated price. Mr. Bayly intends shipping the lot io Auckland. During this season, Mr. H. G. Walmsley has Hhipped from Opitiki 3635 sacks mnize ; Mr. C. Dette, 400 ; Mr. J. F. Connelly, about 1700 ; Mr. I). Mills, about 100. There were several other shippers. Captain Metcalf.!, of the Doric, has made good use of his time in viewing Auckland and its vicinity, and 'he fine weather we have had during the l;:st few days has made his rambles very pleasing to him. Large numbers of natives are travelling up tliG coast, en roula to Parihaka. They talk of camping in hundreds at the Waiaua river, if not permitted to pas'. September is the anniversary of To Whiti's gospel to the tribes of New Zealand.

The trout ova at the Inaha, Hawera district, are looking well, and it is believed that the prospects of a successful hatching-out are favourable. Dp to the present, there has been scarcely any mortality. The young fry will probably begin to hatch in about a week or ten days.