NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6956, 4 March 1884, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Very hoavy floods have been experienced ill Queensland. (sharks are.said to be very numerous in tho harbour.at present; Recent sales of land on the West Coast have been failures'. The agitation,in New, South Wales against: ..immigration is extending. The funeral of the late Sir Charles Sladen was very largely attended. The Tablet all Catholics to sign the. petitions.against the Education Act; The price of tobacco and cigars in Sydney haßadvanoed; owing to the new tariff; It is;'said that Professor Payne intends to use a wax' figure in shooting' the apple in future. The alleged race between tho Wairarapa ' and Adelaide has been, much talked: about in Melbourne. The winding and .pumping machinery ordered from England by tho Moanataiari Extended Company; arrived in Auckland by the 8.8. Ruapehu. Great distress and loss of proporty have been, occasioned in Queensland by extraordinarily heavy rains. It is said that it was Mr. Mitchelsbn: who suggested doingaway with the Colonial: Architects' Department. The various up-country railway stations in: -Victoria are being: crammed with wheat,. ! ready for removal to the metropolis. The death of the late Thomas Bolam, formerly Inspector-General ,of Schools in Victoria, was caused by anoverdoseofchlorodine.. ... I here is. a man in New Snuth Wales who, for the trifling sum of £30,000, will disclose the real Author of Shakespeare's plays. The Sydney electors have no respect for persons. They threw rotten eggs at the Hon. G. R. Heidi when he attempted to address tbem. Rev. Lcong On. Tong goes to China, accredited by. the Wesley an Conference, to open up a mission amongst his heathen countrymen. North Melbourne ia to have a new and im- . posing railway station; The present dilapidated building is to give place to some archi- ; tectural beauty. Alfred Groves; formerly a clergyman of the : Church of England, in Victoria, ha,a . been j committed for trial at the Sydney Police. Court for systematic swindling. A movement is on foot in New Plymouth to petition the Union Steamship Company to bring all their boats,. , calling in the roadstead, alongside the ' breakwater for the discharge and receipt of cargo. The Caledonian Society in Wariganui is making-good progress; There are now. over one hundred . names ■on the roll of subscribers, and inoro are expected. The: date , of the opening meeting has been fixed for April 25th. -