NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7539, 19 January 1886, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tx Kooti is expected in Tanranga shortly. oung trout have lately ,been seen in the Tnrakina River. Mr. J. F. Edgar, of Cambridge, has been appointed editor of the Tuapeka Times; Mr. Andrew Kay, J.P., has been appointed Chairman of the Kihikihi Domain Te Puru, one of the Tauranga great chiefs is laying seriously ill at his settlement, Te Puna. On Saturday, Bishop Barry, accompanied by Bishop Cowie, paid a visit to St. John's College. Complaints are made in Hamilton of the excessive valuation of many of the properties. It is stated from Wellington that the new Central Prison will be at Blaeskin, near DuneJin. Mr. J. M. Alexander his been elected one of the directors of the Moanataiari Goldmining Company. The Chairman of the Piako County Council has been appointed Conservator of Forests for Piako Connoil. A London publishing firm is announcing the issue of two editions of Dr. Barry's work on the Prayer-book. Great regret is felt at Cambridge at the resignation of the Presbyterian clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Evans. The Rev. Mr. Bodington held mission services at Inglewood, Taranaki, on Thursday and Friday last. A conger eel six feet long, and weighing 241b» f was found the other day on Sumner bench, near Christohurch. Mr. Fred. Fulton, of Dunedin, is said to be the coming man as a temperance lecturer. He was inspired by Booth. When Howard disappeared tbe Railway Benefit Society paid Mrs. Howard £15. Since his arrest this sum has been refunded. Some beautiful ornaments cut from pawa shell, are to be sent to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition by Signor Foselli, of Wellington. It is reported that the Rev. Mr. Dutton, F.R.A.S., intends leaving the Primitive Methodist body and joining the Presbyterians. Dr. O'Carroll is urging that the St. John's system of training nurses should be estab lished in connection with the New Plymouth Hospital. Mr. V. MaoLymont, of the Otago University,, has been selected to prooeed to the West Coast and there deliver chemical and mineralogical lectures to tho miners. . In his address at the Primitive Methodist Conference at New Plymouth, Mr, D. Goldie, the retiring president, contended that Methodiiim produced a better class of citizens than any other religious denomination. Deteotive Jones, of Auckland, has been engaged far some days at 11 Churchill, and Honl.ly, endeavouring to obtain some clue to the Churchill mystery, but without effect, and he has returned to Auckland. Messrs. J. L. Gillies and Robert Chapman are the first justices of the peace in Dunedin who have twice failed to attend the Police Court after being summoned in terms of tbe rota. Their names have been reported to the Minister for Justice, as provided by, the Act passed lust year. The managing committee of the Old Men's Home, Ashburton, lately met to investigate a complaint made by one of the inmates. It appeared that complainant was annoyed at the absence of new potatoes as a component part of his dinner. The committee were hard-hearted enough to dismiaa the complaint,