NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6824, 1 October 1883, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Timber is being exported from Foxton to Australia. Mr- T. H. Parkinson, an old Canterbury colooist, is just dead. Mr. Langtry will appear in Australia in the first week of August, 1884. Melbourne appears to be suffering from an epidemic of burglaries in churches. The Doric, , while at Wellington, was visited by a large number of persons. It is stated that Councillor G. D. Carter will ba the next Mayor of Melbourne. During last year there were 3147 persons confined in lunatic asylums in Victoria. A discovery of manganese has been made near Mikkira, near Port Lincoln, South Australia. The meat placed on board the Doric at Wellington is said to have been in excellent condition. The members of the Chnroh of Christ have erected a neat and comfortable church in Wellington. Possibly Mr. J. C. Richmond may be the member of the Upper House who will be made a Minister. Mr. Ashcroft, formerly editor of the Otago Daily Times, is about to become editor of the Dunedin Morning Herald. Another association has been formed in Melbourne for marine assurance purposes, with the title of the Melbourne Lloyd's. The Education Board in Otago and the Dunedin School Committee are' having a row about the money allowed to the committee, i The New Zealand Insurance Company have purchased from the Bank of New Zealand a portion of the land in New Plymouth on which the Masonic Hotel stands. The "Blue Book" of Western Australia just published gives the estimated acreage of uncultivated land of the colony at 626,054,632 acres, and the acreage of cultivated land 56,691 acres. The experiment made by the Gear Meat Preserving Company in bringing live stock overland to Wellington from the West Coast settlements has so far proved eminently I satisfactory. . y? The officers of the Western Australian survey ship Meda report that when off the North-West • Cape, about 1000 miles from Sunda, showers of calcined sand fell on the deck about the time of the eruptions at the latter place, The City Butchery Company in Dunedin have been, selling frozen mutton. In appearance the carcases differ very elightly from those hot subjected to the freezing process, but this slight differencs is decidedly in favour of the frozen meat. If this experiment seams to bit the publio fancy, it is probable that a good deal of frozen mutton will bo offered for sale daring the enmmer months,

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