NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7007, 2 May 1884, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mi£s JeNMiB Lee ia again playing "Jo" in Melbourne. . Sir W. Fox has been lecturing at New Plymouth on " Freethought." " The Circe is loading heavy blocks of .timber at Wanganui for Auckland. •- ■ . , Mias Genevieve Ward saye that ehe intends to visit New Zealand. *'Professor Payne's short season in Dunedin di&d. a natural death for want'of public support. . . Councillor Crowther is in favour of a street watering rate, to be paid by thoae, whose streets are watered. A'motion to close billiard-rooms at. the game hour as public houses was defeated at the City Council meeting last night. .."I'he Melbourne Argus argues that the drama in Victoria during the last few years shows a sensible and marked decadence. " What in New Zealand we call " distress" it: a condition which in the.East End of lyOndon would ■■ be reckoned one of very tolerable comfort. ■'~ ■ { , "It is painful when a man outlives his popularity. A writer in the Otago Witness sneeringly alludes to Sir Juiiua Vogel as " a descendant of.Abraham." . Too Warden of Thames, has notified that the big kauri tree at the head of Tararn, is required for public purposes, and that any one damaging it will be prosecuted. A Canterbury paper says that a considerable part of Mr. Rclleeton's speech on the land- question appears to have been taken v from old orations of Sir G. Grey. • -In: the;, polonies "■' (saye the Canterbury Times, -which ( ia given to saying stupid things) when a man 'advocates justice he becomes the tobjeot of ceaseless abuse and falsehood by implication. ' . : 'At-Wellington-a football player had Wβ trbusore entirely: torn off. His fellows formed a-ring: round him, and. thus shielding him from , .view, esoorted him to the pavilion, l where he was re-clothed; ; ■ . , ;;■-,_ :