NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7106, 26 August 1884, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tux Hawera Star speaks of Vogel 'as the " Wandering Jew." Professor Anderson was performing in Invercargill last week. Judge Cope, of Melbourne, was formerly a reporter on the London Times. 302 bales of Nelson hops have been exported by the lonic, for London. The Rev. J. Bachanan is lecturing in Dnnedin on "Bush Mission Life in Australia." A Society for the Prevsntion of Cruelty te Animals is about to be established in Wellington. Rumours of " gold " are still in the Masterton atmosphere, sajs a recent Wairarapa exchange. Some fine samples of Hokianga lemons were left at the office of the Wellington Post recently.

A skeleton of a human being in a partially sittiog position was recently discovered on Mr. Watman's run, Masterton.

Several fresh-water springs have been observed welling up in the sea a couple of chains from shore, near Timaru.

Salvation Army Weddings in Launceston are characterised as "a perfect farce—a theme of ribaldry and blasphemy." The R*v. Dr. Roseby has been leotaring in Dunedin on "Other Worlds than Ours: Revelations on Spectrum Analysis."

A fashionable marriage in Auckland this week—Miss F.Wbitaker (youngest daughter of Sir F. Whitaker) weds Mr. A. Baker.

A compositor was fined 5s and Is damage, for disfigures by pencil marks the Wellington Provincial BuildiAcs on Wednesday last. Mennie and Dev'a biscuit faotory at the Thames is being demolished, as the firm are about to remove their business to Auckland.

A cheese factory at Wanganui forwarded a cheese to Mr. Ballanoe, that it might be E laced in Bellamy's for the benefit of memera.

A large number of the unemployed, according to the Wairarapa Star, are swagging it in Wairarapa North. They are lookiog in vain for bnshfalling.

A burglarious attempt was made to break into the Bank of New Zealand at Waipukurau, Hawke's Bay, at two o'clock on Sunday morning, 17tb instant. A pane of glass was blown out of a saah a distance ot nearly a hundred yards at Panmure on Saturday last, and was picked np off the grass undamaged.

Daring the late storm in Panmure, some of the old houses which have been built 36 years, stood the buffetting far bctttr tban many of the modern ones lately erected.

The Government expenses conneoted with the late general election have not yet been paid. Money ii pretty scarce in the Treasury, and there is nobody to take charge of anything. At a late sitting of the Dunedin Parliamentary Union, a vote of no confidence in the Government was bronght down, but defeated, it was denounced as "au nnseemly scramble for the Treasury Bcnches." It has been suggested, aa so many sightseers visit the Triumph, now in dock, that a collection box should be plaoed at the dook entrance in aid of the' local charities, or for the Australasian Shipwrecked Seamen's Fund.

At the Oourt, Wellington, .the other day, several persons were charged with using disgusting Ungnage, and the Clerk objected to rea'd out the words.' His Worship, however, had no suoh compunction, and read out the exact words as stated in the information.

When the news reached Dunadin that Beach had beaten Hanlan in the champion boat-race at Sydney it' if as recti red with a good deal of enthusiasm. At the Princess Theatre Miss Smithson announced tho resnlt from the stage amid much cheering, and at the Parliamentary Union the Speaker interrupted the business to impart the intelligence. " '