NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7404, 12 August 1885, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The present income of the oity of Melbourne from licenses is £9525.

It is stated that Mrs. Hampsou contemplates paying another visit to Australia. The Victorian tanners are agitating for a reduction of freight on tanning and leather material.

Mr. M. J. Ennis has been appointed organist of St. Joseph's pro-cathedral, Dunedin.

The bootmakers of Adelaide are agitating for enoouragement for their industry by Customs duties.

Mr. Donald Reid, jun., who has just been eleoted for Bruce, is a lawyer practising in Milton, Obago. There has been severe weather on the East Coast, and the Hokurangi range has been covered with snow.

Six steamers are now on their way from London to Brisbane, bringing a total of nearly 3000 immigrants. Meetings of the unemployed continue to be held at Adelaide, the men seeking aid from the Government.

At Alford Station, Ashburton, Canterbury, a few days ago, at seven a.m., the thermometer registered only 20 degrees. A proposition has been made by Mr. H. J. Scott to supply the West Australian Government with camels for use in that colony. ,

An effort is being made by a section of the country Press to secure the restoration of the Press free-pass system on the Victorian railways.

In the Melbourne Practice Court Mr, Justice Holroyd refused to hear Mr. A. Skinner in a case because he appeared without his robes.

The Victorian Railway authorities are making arrangements whereby they will be able to convey 8000 people to Flemington racecourse in eiuht minutes.

Messrs. Sh?rland and Co., manufacturing druggists, Auckland, In their circular of the Ist instant, state that " the Customs are now levying 27£ per cent on Fuller's earth, regarding it as a toilet requisite.

The Hot Lakes. Chroniole states that a gentleman connected with the Bank of New Zealand at Wellington arrived there suffering from lumbago, and after using the Priest's bath for some time went away completely cured.

A Melbourne paper says So great has been the inorease in the number of telegraph messages since the establishment of the sixpenny telegram that the Public Service Commissioners are now advertising for forty additional messengers.

The Gear Company, of Wellington, have just slaughtered three magnificent bullocks from the station of Mr. W. C. Buohanau, M.H.R., Tupurupuru, Wairarapa. The largest of these animals turns the scale at 18001bs., and the other two are within a few pounds of that weight. The Mutual Imps' Club, which has now been in existence nearly three years in Melbourne, numbers about 500 members. The motto of the fraternity is "Friendship and Hospitality," two qualities whioh are kept alive at the various social and entertaining meetings held at the club rooms in the Eastern Arcade.