NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6818, 24 September 1883, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tasmania, is going in for a direct steam service. The Wellington boating season opens in the middle of October. The deer on Mr. McKellar's run near Tapanui number about 150. A volunteer review will probably tako place in Wellington on the 9th of November next. " That very respectable body " is how a Dunedin p.ipsralludes to the Auckland Education Board. The Rev. W. H. H. Jervois is at present travelling with the Bishop of Dunedin in the Wakatipu district. It is understood that Councillor Street will be a candidate at the forthcoming Mayoral election for Dunedin. An excellent sample of coarse gold was lately obtained from half a dish of sand taken from (-.he Karori stream, Wellington. A requisition ia in course of signature at Welliugton, asking Mr. E. Shaw, M.H R.,' to become a candidate for the Mayoralty. The Bank of New Zealand plans are in hand for handsome new premises on the site of the old Masonic Hotel, New Plymouth, Mr. Samuel Johnson, formerly of Blenheim, is contributing a series of articles, on New Zealand, to the Ashton-under-Lyne Reporter. Al the Native Lands Court, Kaiapoi, a native namd Natruahira Warawarutu put in a claim for a large portion of Canterbury and Ota go. At a recent sitting of the Divorce Court in Sydney orders were granted annulling seven marriages, chiefly on the ground of cruelty and adultery. The report of the Orient Steam Navigation Company for 18S2 says the net earnings of the company during the year, after paying all expenses, including interest on the dobenturea, amounted to £43,139. A severe hailstorm occurred at Dargaville on Monday last. The hailstones were larger than peas, and fell so thick that the ground in many places was white with them. It was several hours bsfore'they had all melted away. The storm was very local, only stretching about a mile wide. An American paper states that a brakeman has invented a new automatic car coupler, which has been adopted by the Erie Raill'oad, a contract having just been made with the Gifford Car-coupling and Manufacturing Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, to put the coupler on the freight cara of that road, numbering it ia said, 50,000. The cars couple automatically, and can be easily uncoupled by a chain on the roof. In operation at the Railway Exposition it proved efficient, and entitled to immediate adoption.