NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7514, 18 December 1885, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A son of Wi Tako's hit died, aged 20. Fruit growers in Taranaki complain of the beetle. The furniture and library of Sir W. Fox are advertised for sale. A State School Teachers' Union of Victoria is now in process of formation. The Caledonian Society at Blenheim will hold sports on New Year's Day. In Wellington two districts are squabbling over who is responsible for a pauper named Wilson. The Wairoa paper says the bar is now worse than it had been for a long time before. A Wellington paper says :— * The ' unem ployed ' in Auckland appear to prefer attending meetings to going to work." The Sydney University authorities show a credit balance of £2541, The total amount disbursed last year was £10,539. It is stated in Taranaki that a gentleman is coming from Auckland to give another trial to the ironsand works at the Henui. The value of the timber exported from Auckland is returned at £135,952, or more than five times as much as all the rest of the colony put together. The New Zealand Times makes the outbreak of cholera at Townsville the text of a sermon to the authorities at Wellington to look after the drainage. The natives of Cambridge have procured a monkey, which affords them no end of entertainment. They call it " Pakeha," out of compliment to the Europeans. During the voyage of the steamer Aberdeen to Australia eleven goats were slaughtered for the sustenance of a tiger consigned to the Sydney Zoologioal Gardens. The Dibbs Government intended to introduce a Bill to amend the Licensing Act. It was not to contain a provision to prohibit the employment of females aa barmaids. By the Oreti and Penguin, on December 14, 40,0001 bs of butter were exported from New Plymouth, which at the price paid the farmers means the introduction of £1500 of outside money into the place. What becomes of the sour beer? This was a question that wan put in Court the other day in Nelson to three brewers, all of whom were pressed hard for an answer, but the only one that wan forthcoming was, "It is utilised." Yes, but how The Crown grant for the Heretaunga block, Hawke's Bay, was issued nearly twenty years ago, the litigation about it ever since has filled the pockets of a generation of lawyers. It remains for New Zealand, amongst its other glories, to beat Jarndyce v. Jarndyce. It is probable that a rule will be introduced into the Civil Service making it compulsory on all candidates to be able to aspirate the letter H before being admitted. A clause will also be inserted in the Education Act making it apply to schoolmasters and pupil teachers. Members of Parliament and of public bodies to be strictly exempt. At a recent meeting of the Melbourne University Council it was resolved, "That, in the interests of the University and of the professors, it is expedient that houses be erected for the professors within the University grounds ; that the funds available for building purposes be at once applied to the erection of nuch houses.'' The Poverty Bay Herald says:"Some Gisborne legal praotititioners are it seems being kept in countenance by a Wellington lawyer of the Sampson Brass stamp, as a telegram elsewhere states that proceedings for malversation of clients' money are to be taken. Gisborne has not a monopoly of the rascals who stick to clients' money and have to be sued before it can be got, and not always then."