NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7175, 14 November 1884, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Sib Julius Vogbl's popularity is fast ebbing away. : : Sir George Grey is to receive an ovation at Gisborne. ~ " There are three candidates for the Mayoralty .of Dunedin. ' A Working Men's Club has been opened at New Plymouth. Over £700 were taken at the Christchnrch Agricultural show yesterday. There is some talk of Captain Morris being made a member of the Ministry. The Government have promised to take steps to open the Mokau country. Fifteen hundred invitations were accepted for Lady Loch's recent •'At Home." Tenders have been accepted for the erection of a dairy factory at Te Pake, Tauranga. Tenders for locomotives for the New Zealand railways will be called for in about a month. - . . - ' " His Excellency the Governor arrived at Christchnrch yesterday. His visit is a private one. The Pake and Duchess of Connaught are expected to visit Australia next year on their return fromlndia. A Christchnrch telegram says a wrestling match has been arranged between W. Hudson and W. Rowe for £70 a side. P. Louis, watchmaker, who was arrested, by the Russell police, charged with larceny, has been remanded to Auckland. The Trades and Labour Council at Wellington are advocating the establishment of a Government Labour Exchange. Tim "National Bank has erected new and

commodious premises at the comer of Devon and Brougham Streets, New Plymouth. The Rev. 3. H: Fletcher of New South Wales, has been elected President of the Weßleyan Australian General Conference. A correspondent of the Opotiki Herald says the young men of that place are devoted only to billiards, beer, bad language, and cruelty to horses. ~.-,. There was a sensation in Chiarini s Circus in Christchurch a few days ago. One of the monkeys was "in the straw." Mother and offspring are doing well. A Wellington correspondent Bays that the Government have made up their minds to be defeated on their land-tax proposals, and to go to the conntry on them. Major Pollard and Staff-Captain Matthews created a sensation on their arrival at Wanganui. They delivered addresses, and the Army is likely to have a career in Wanganui. \ . Anderson, the defaulting Liverpool Tvork-house-master, who was arrested a short time Bgo in New Zealand, is to be sent back to England in charge of a police officer, who is now on his way out. The New South Wales legislators, on the eve of the Melbourne Cup, were accused by one of their number of manifesting a desire " to go and grovel in all the deplorable immoralities of a racecourse."