NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7552, 3 February 1886, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are now 212 registered race clubs in New South Wales.

'the date of the. Adelaide" Jubilee Exhibition baa been fixed for June 20 /nest year.

The revenue of Western Australia for IBSS was £329,213; the expenditure, £308,848.

The annual meeting of the General Presbytery of New Zealand will open on Tuesday next at St. Andrew's Church.

The New South Wales Minister for Mines intends establishing timber reserves in various parts of the colony.

His Honor Judge Ward and Mr*. Ward conducted services at the Invercargill Baptist Church on Sunday, the 24th ultimo.

The late Mr. J. Struth has bequeathed £6000 to the Sydney charities, the Presbyterian Church, and the Salvation Army.

It is reported that the Dean of Melbourne, the Very Rev. H. B. Macartney, has tendered to the bishop his resignation as an archdeacon of the diocese.

Lord Colville, of Culioie, on whom a peerage has been conferred, is a brother-in-law of Lord Carinjztou, the present Governor of New South Wales.

The Sydney water police made a seizure of 150 boxes, containing 10.725 valuable cigars, which were being smuggled ashore from the Meesageries Company's steamer Sydney. The Rev. A. Reid says :—" Tried by the moral test, the missionary spirit test, or any other test, there was not a country under heaven which was more eminently Christian than Fiji."

The income of the see of Manchester, to which Bishop Moorhonse has just been appointed, is worth £4200, The Bishop will not for the present, however, be entitled to a seat in {be House ot Lords.

The following is the atate of the Auckland Lunatic Asylum, for the week ending Jan. 30, 1886 :— Remaining last week, 343 ; admitted since, 2 ; discharged, 1 ; remaining, !i26 males, 118 females : total, 344.

The Bishop of Ballarat (writes the Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald) hae invented a prayer to be said in churches beseeohing the Almighty to send us honest members of Parliament in the coming election.

A handy little publication hag just been issued from the Government Printing Oilice — viz,, a "Time-table of Mails." It is a little portable book of stiff card paper, and is got up in a novor and most excellent style, and reflects very great credit upon Mr. Didsbury.