NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7004, 29 April 1884, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Bishop Barby intends to improve the Sydney Cathedral. All the New South Wales volunteers went into camp at Windsor Park at Easter. The Melbourne markets have been leased this year for £3000 more than last year. General satisfaction is felt in Queensland at the result of the recent newspaper libel case. It is proposed to give a public reception to Mr. Mitchelson on his arrival ia New Plymouth. The bag question is agitating grain merchants and produce dealers in New South Wales. Captain Ted Wright is to open a Salvation Army campaign at Palmerston North on the Ist of May. R. T. Booth will commence his temperance mission in Sydney on May 4, in the Exhibition Building. Mr. Frankland has had a conference with the members of various Friendly Societies in New Plymouth. _ There is a project for the establishment of direct steam communication between Australia and India. A movement is on foot for establishing a corps of militia in connection with the Melbourne University. The Government of Viotoria now consists of eleven members, three of whom are members of the Upper Chsmber. The barque Lanarkshire, from Mouriligan hatbour to Lyttelton, went ashore in the Flinders Passage, bat was got off uninjured. Milk in Sydney, in consequence of the drought, is selling at 8d per quart, whilst vegetables from tho same cause are very dear. A young girl named Bridget Kennedy, aeed fifteen, committed suicide at Lithgow (N.S. Wales) the other evening, in a most determined manner. In the Mulbonrne County Court the other week His Honor Judge Cope had occasion to deter a person from " whittling" the new furniture with a pen-knife. Mr. A. G. Taylor, a member of the New South Wales House of Representatives, has been suspended under the new olotnze rales recently brought into operation. Miss Lydia Amelia Harris, on reosiving her B.A. degree, at the Melbourne University, was received by the BCudents with the song, " She's a jolly good fellow.'* Sir Henry Brougham Loch is not a stranger to Melbourne. He was there in 1850 with the Hon. Stuart Wortly. He became during his stay in the city a social favourite. The Bawera paper says:—"Some of the restless souls in this district are anxioua for a little excitement, and are oonßidering the advisability of inviting Sir Julius Vogel to contest the Egmont seat with Major Atkinson."

It is shown by the Returns of land in cultivation in Waimea and Collinpwood Counties that there are in these two aounties 919 acr n s in hops, of which 832 acres are in the Waimea County alone. The Wanganui Herald of the 23rd says :— "A fishing smack, of some 10 or 12 tons capacity, arrived from Eaipara thiß morning, the trip down having taken about four days. The crew, which consists of two men, intend taking up the outside fishing, whioh their smack should be well' suited'for.