NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7403, 11 August 1885, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Professor Kirk is to visit the Wanganui district in September.

Mr. Bryce will shortly proceed to England in connection with hi* action against Mr.

RusdeD

Parcels delivery agencies have been established at all the railway stations in Western Australia.

The Legislature of Western Australia has announced its intention to appoint an AgentGeneral for the colony.

This is the most splendid season throughout Western Australia that has been known for the past 20 years.

In the Hebrew congregation in the South, allusion was made by the rabbis to the death of Sir Moses Montefiore.

At Faster time Wanganni will see the largest gathering of oavalry volunteers it has witnessed for many years.

Mr. Fronde believes that New Zealand will eventually be the finest and most prosperous of all this group of colonies.

Mr. J. Morton, of Waverley, Wanganui district, intends taking a shipment of 60 horses to Sydney by the Triumph.

Sir W. J. Clarke has been fortifying his mansion at Sunbury with a battery of Nordenfeldt guns, with one of his sons as lieutenant in charge.

The Wanganui Herald says that the state of the Patea Meat Preserving Company's affairs, as disclosed at the late meeting, is a very disheartening one.

At a meeting of the Mokau Coal Company at New Plymouth, the Secretary's report stated that at the present time the output is estimated at 50 tons weekly.

A Melbourne journal says :—"lt would be something of a calamity to our rapidly developing trade with the United States if the Pacific Company's steamers were withdrawn."

The Sandhurst Town Council have decided to request the Government to introduce the new system of reckoning time in the clock to be placed in the tower of the new public buildings.

John Moriarty, a member of a rifle company at Oamaru, was fined 5s and costs, 28s, yesterday, under the Volunteer Regulation Act, for absenting himself from parade without leave.

Mr. M. W. Green, formerly M.H.R. for Dunedin East, who has latterly been resident in Christchurch, is about to leave the colony, having received an offer of the pastorate of the Church of Christ in Adelaide.

The house of Robert Guthrie, Maitlandstreet, Dunedin, was burned down on Sunday last. The insurances are House and outhouse, £380 in the Equitable office ; furniture and effects, £150 in the same office.

Up to the present time the following is the full strength of the N.S. W. defence forces Permanent Artillery, 500 ; Volunteer Artillery, 985; Engineers, 121 ; Torpedo Corps, 246 ; four regiments of infantry, 3812; and a reserve force of about 2500 men.

Sanitary Conference at Sydney adopted a resolution declaring that the sanction of cremation should be introduced in any new Sanitary Act as a permissive clause, with a special application to the disposal of the bodies of those dying of infectious diseases.

There recently died in the Melbourne Hospital one Andrew Patrick Guerne, of disease of the lungs and starvation. Scarcely a particle of food was found in his stomach ; but in bis pocket were deposit receipts and other securities representing over £700.

The Christohurch Telegraph says that Mr. Brownell, who has been in charge of the Post and Telegraph offices at West Oxford for about two years, has been notified of his removal to Tuakau, in the Auckland province, and adds that his removal will be much regretted by a numerous circle of friends.

Little New Zealand seems to be able to dip her hand into John Bull's trousers pockets whenever she likes ; but no sooner does the old man's eldest daughter stand up for a little pocket money than she is told it is just about time she should think of repaying what she has already drawn, and that she is quite old enough now to support herself. The day of the opening of the New Zealand Exhibition was the 39th anniversary of the landing of the Imperial troops, who were sent from Sydney, at Porirua harbour. The settlers in and around Port Nioholson were then engaged in a severe struggle with the Maoris. At least one of the soldiers who then landed at Porirua is now in Wellington —Mr. Hewitt, who drives an express van.