NEWS IN BRIRF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7342, 1 June 1885, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIRF.

1 {l -i - ♦—V < ' v. ; • A ; Pahliamentaky Union has been established at Titaaru. T., - * A. turkey has been shown at; Wellington which'fcurnedthe scale at 19lbs. • _ A f lot of dynamite has lately' disappeared from the New Plymouth breakwater. The Te' ; Aroha is to cease running on the Thames, owing to the failure of trade. There is great bustle in clearing up the Parliamentary Buildings for the coming session. A boy died lately in Canterbury from tetanus, but how that disease came on is not known. The date of the trout fishing season in Canterbury has been fixed from Ist October to 31st March. Judge Gillies was amongst those who had the privilege of private entree at the Dirthday levee at Wellington. Lord Carington, the new Governor of New South Wales, is an enthusiastic sportsman and lover of the turf. The Bishop of Adelaide iB in favour of the "Local Option" principle being applied to the religious education question. The new organ for Beresford-street Church has been delivered, and operations for its erection will be commenced in a few days. Mr. F. Wells, batcher, Thames, was on Friday thrown from his horse through colliding with a cart, and had his ankle fractured. New Plymouth wants a new courthouse and the local Law Sooiety has made, strong representations to the Government in the matter. The principal subject of discussion in the southern papers just received is Major Atkinson's speech. _ It meets with general approval. The natives at Waiwakaiho, near New Plymouth, are constanly infringing the game laws. In one week they shot no less than 400 tuia and a hare. There is considerable enquiry for furnished houses at the Thorndon, Wellington, caused, no doubt, by , the near approach of the Parliamentary session. At Messrs. Robertson's sale of stud cattle at Oamaru a few days ago, a bull was knocked down at the handsome figure of 525 guineas. The first day's sale realised over £8000. In the colony of Victoria the Licensing Aot, in express and unmistakable terms, assures to every licensed victualler, without exception, a renewal of his license, provided he hag conducted bis house properly. , The Oriental Fair in aid of St. Mary's Church and Parsonage, Pariiell, closed on Saturday night, the . receipts being £232, making a total of £1314. The remaining articles will be sold by auction to-morrow (Tuesday) afternoon at half-past two. The Thames Star says:—"There is a report extant to the effect that the Queen of Beauty mine is to be floated into an English company, with a capital sufficient to provide machinery capable of materially aiding in prospecting the deep levels of the field." A woman charged at New Plymouth lately with attempt to provoke a breach of the peace, tried to get off by flattering the" justice. She winked at them, and alluded to their pretty faces. She was much astonished when she got a week's imprisonment. At a meeting of the Council of the Canterbury. Acclimatisation Sooiety, it was resolved to write to the various societies in New Zealfr- .. requesting them to join in an applioaiitj to the Government for a subsidy to send Mr. Farr home again about August next for a further supply of ova. The Chairman of a Sohool Committee in Otago wrote to the Board asking " what power he had of compelling the members of committee to keep order in the event of their Obstructing business, using very bad language, and balling each other liars." It has been 'suggested that the meetings should be held in presence of the scholars. It has been decided by persons assembled, at a public meeting held at the Bluff, that a canal from Fortrose to Awarua Bay is most highly desirable and necessary." The estimated cost is a mere trifle— £17,338. Of course the Government are to be asked to do it. An artistic piece of woodwork has just been exeouted by one of the early settlers of Wellington. It is in the shape of an inlaid view of a scene which took place at Petone as far back as the year 1839, when Colonel Wakefield concluded the purchase of Wellington with the influential chiefs Te Puni and Warepori.