NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6997, 21 April 1884, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Hawea brought the Suez mail yesterday. Mr. Charles Bright is leoturing in Christchurch. Herr Schmitt purposes giving some concerts at the Thames. Mrs.,Denton is about to write a biography of her late husband, Professor Dsnton. The keas are doing immense damage to the sheep in the Mackenzie country, Canterbury ;> - ... - ... A West Coast paper states that a woman lately found a quantity of fine gold in the stomach of a flounder. Mr. Speight, Chairman of the Victorian Railway Commission, is a member of the Methodist den'omihation. * . The London Printer's .Register, noting the rfcturh of ttid Argus' expedition from New Guinea, places Cooktown on the west coast • of Africa. . A proposal has.been made to place a permanent, tablet at the spot from whioh Burke and Wills started on their memorable expedition, 1860..

Mr. E. Morrison, who went on an exploring tour to..New Guinea, is proceeding to Scotland for .the purpose of studying for the medical profession.

An American paper has discovered a remarkable Australian colonjst. His name is Baron Rupertawood, and his wealth something like £20,060,000. ./ "Honolulu.public schools are to jje searched for pupils showing indications of~leprosy, so great is the dread of the disease on the part of the white resident of the kingdom. - The Phrenological Maga'zihe has an article phrenologicarly delineating Bishop Moorbouse attd the Premier (Mr. Service). The characters of both are highly spoken of. A .Banjoewangib paper; applpgises for obituary notices being crowded out of its columns By the brief announcement, ''A number of deaths unavoidably postponed." Only three_small applications for aid came before the Victorian Shipwreck Kolief Society last year. There was ah 1 exceptional immunity from marine disasters involving loss of life, '