NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Issue XXI, 15 May 1884, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A violent storm is predicted. The borough of Hamilton has an overdraft of £576. Pheasants and quail are scarce this season at Nelson. T Business on the Stook Exohange yesterday was very dull. Mr. Hursthouse, M.H.R., is making a tour of his district. Hops are being successfully grown at Wairoa, Hawke's Bay. The railway from Hamilton to Morrinsville is being pushed on with rapidity. A map of the Soudan will appear in the Hebald supplement next Saturday. A bell bird, or korimako, now rare, was brought into Wanganui a few days ago. The experiment of pouring oil on the waves has been tried with complete suocess at Now Plymouth.

The Liberal party will not put up a candidate for the Hawke's Bay district as against Captain Russell. The Waikato Times would like Mr. J. C. Firth to publish the balance-sheet of the Matamata estate.

Symes, the Freethought lecturer, at present in Australia, was edacated for the Wesleyan ministry. Mr. Grant, who along with Mr. Poster acquired the Te Arohaßpecial settlement a few years ago, is a bankrupt. The Napier Borough Council are about to erect a Town Hall. - The councillors are discussing the plans sent in. The men's version of the circumstances in the dispute with Messrs. Garrett will be found in another column.

The Nelson Colonist states that several people there are endeavouring to get Sir George Grey to pay Nelson a visit. The Timaru Herald, referring to Sir Julius Vogol, says:—"We admire his talents while we abhor his prinoiples." /His Excellency will attend the theatre on Friday night for the first time during his present visit to Auckland. ■ He has been kept-pretty busy in one way or another. The Northern .Luminary suggests that Mr. Mitchelson, in exploring the railway route, is looking out for the great timber bushes. Two .well-known.minUtera of the Wesleyan Church of Viotoria,' the Kevr. Kalph and J.J. Brown, are starting for a year's holiday tour round the world. . The Marlborough Daily Times is quite surprised at tho number of Oxford men who were applicants for the positions of masters at the Borough School. Mr. Booth, R.M., and Mr. R. J. Gill, of the Native Department, paid £12,000 to natives .at i Omahu, Napier, a few days ago, on account of the Otamakapua blook.

The Uawera Star says of the Wairaate Plains land" In 1878 land was sold in this district at about £15 per acre, whioh would not now realise more than' £10."

An Otago paper urgeß that there shocld be separate carriages on the. rail ways for women, and says the praotice has been adopted on the New South railways for many years. The ' Wellington correspondent of tho South Australian Register soya that publio feeling reaoheß to strong indignation against the Insurance. Department, and demands large, modifications or total abolishment. A special report upon the employment of barmaid? 'in hotels has been drafted by Major Binitb', : M.L.A., Victoria, Chairman of the Shops' Commission, and, when printed, will be submitted, to-.the commissioners for approval.