NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7402, 10 August 1885, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The population of South Australia on June 1 was 349,291. The Duuedin Harbour Board is spending £3000 upon wharf extension. L. Dillon has just closed a Berierof recitals in Wellington. Tie names of the J.P.'s who fail to attend to their duties in Wanganui are published. Mr. Matthew Burnett, the temperance lecturer, is at present in the country districts of OtagoThe Port Chalmers Naval Artillery recently celebrated their 23rd anniversary with a ball. There are nearly 1100 Post-offices in Near South Wales, and more than 12,000 miles of telegraph wires. The s.B. Wakatipu, on her last trip to Sydney, took 70 horses and 20 head of cattle from Southern ports. The correspondent of a Melbourne paper estimates that there are 74 actors now out of employment in that city. The value of the mineral products of New South Wales up to the end of 1884 amounted to over £64,000,000 sterling. Special services were held in the Dunedin Synagogue on the day following the receipt of the news of Sir Moses Montefiore's death. The Chinese of Sydney have subscribed £800 for the relief of sufferers by a serious flood that ocourred at Canton a short time ago. The Faust family, who will be remembered here in connection with Cbiarini's Circus, are at present performing in Wellington. At the request of Mr. Thomas Holt, now in England, Lady Augustus Loftus has distributed £500 amongst the Sydney charities. The N.S. W. Postmaster-General is opposed to the free postage of newspapers, and in his annual report proposes a charge of one halfpenny each. The number of sacks of grain received by rail at Timaruu up to the Ist instant, was 189,325, and by road 75,667, making a grand total of 264,992. Patents have been applied for an improved lawn tennis and cricket shoe, lubricator for wheels, reversible chain belting, all by New Zealand inventors. Saturday, August I, the exhibition day in Wellington, was the 39th anniversary of the landing of the Imperial troops at Porirua, Wellington, from Sydney.