NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6821, 27 September 1883, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The "electric" circus continues to be lighted by gaa. Graphite, of pure quality, ha 3 been found at Port Lincoln, South Australia. Newcastle (N.S.W.) is anxious to become the terminus of the Orient shipping line. Since the beginning of July 2575 tone of sugar have been exported from Queensland. Australian wines have made a great impression upon epicurean palates in Calcutta. Lord Derby is averse at the present time to grant representative government to West Australia. The Victorian Academy of Arts intend to hold an art fair in the Exhibition Building at an early date. An important public office in New South Wales is at present vacant. The hangman, Gately, is dead. Inspector Secratan, of the Melbourne detective force, is to retire on an allowance of £225 per year. Nine Chinese have, it is supposed, been murdered on the Russell River, Queensland, by blacks recently. The Adelaide Municipal Conncil intend to try and stop the playing of tho Salvation Army band in the streets of that city. About 2000 acres of bu3h will be fallen this seaaon in the" Momohaki district, and about 4000 acres in the Hawera County. A review of public school children, in the presence of Lord and Lady Loftus, is to take place in Moore Park, Sydney, at an early date.

There is a slight decrease in the South Australian Savings' Banks receipts, but it is due to the depositors seeking other avenues of investment. The lad Busby, who was injured in Queenstreet on Monday last, passed a good day yesterday, but he,has not yet been pronounced out of danger. The Manawatu Standard noticss ;that tbo hop gardens on the Av/ahuri-Fieldiag Road have been largely extended this season, and that the poles ate now being made for the coming crop. About 1500 shares have now been taken up in the West Coast Meat Export Company. A plant will ehortly be ordered, and the necessary arrangements made for shipping to Wellington. Two medals have been presented by the Cobden Club to the University of Melbourne, for presentation to students showing the greatest excellence in studies connected with politicaleoonomy. The Hawke'e Bay Herald of September 21 saya that several persons in Napier claimed to have seen the new comet last night. As no other person has seen this comet, deep suspicion rests npon Napier. Under the title of "Land sold by the inch," the New York Berald states: "A

strip of land only eight inches wide, and lying between Nos. 9 and 11, Pine-street, '• was bought for 5000 dollars from Alexander Duncan by trustees for John J. Astor yesterday." Tho Haivke's Bay Herald remarks on the fact that during the last year a pair of braces were patented uuder the title of " suspenders," says that " one would hardly have thought New Zealand populous enough to justify the patenting of au article suoh as th<« last mentioned." Freezing for export will not be con6ned to sheep and cattle, and one farmer near Patea, and a director of the West Coast Meat Export Company, intends breeding pork for shipment. Hβ is convinced that it will pay better than mutton, as the pigs will be fit for market at six months of age. The Egmont Courier, o£ Saturday last, says Two hundred and forty Maoris marohefi to the Waiaua Bridge on Tuesday, and marched back again. On the following day the same programme was rehearsed by 190. Titokowaru was a prominent figure All were well dressed, and soveral of the . yoang men donned the blue ribbon." '<■