NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7392, 23 March 1886, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

It, is Baid that there are J 300 empty homes in and about Dunedin. Considerable opposition to the Victorian Factories Act is being aroused. At the late Dunedin Horticultural Show £74 was taken at the door in two days. The railway journey from Adelaide to Melbourne is to he done in eighteen hours. Yesterday was the birthday of Kaiser, Wilhelm, and the Germans gloried in United Vaterland. • The Commercial Bank of South Australia lost £120 000 over one station, partly owned by an ex-director. The Blue Kibbon Gospel Army in Sydney iB doing good work amongst the prisoners who are daily discharged from gaol. Mr William Noble, thp founder of the Blue Kibbon movement, is to visit Sydney in April, to conduct a Gospel temperance mission. The Rev. A. R. Fitohett has been appointed to the governing body of the Duqedin High Schools, vice Professor Mac* gregor. The Dunedin Herald makes the ridiculous assertion that the North Island will never be able " to sustain in comfort the same population as the South Island." It is said thait Sir J. Vogel is treating Mr. Collis shabbily because the financial results of the Exhibition are bad, and Mr. Collis must be made a scapegoat. The Wellington Post is sorry to learn that the reef from which the Golden Crown Company at Terawhiti were taking stone for crushing has suddenly closed in and been lost. The usual meeting of the Gospel Temperance Mission was held on Sunday evening in the Protestant Hall, Karangahape Road, Mr. Edwin Wood presided. Addresses were given by Mr. Markham and Mr. J. Brame. The steamer Hauroto, whioh left Wellington for Sydney on March 16, had on board 99 horses, 00 head of oattle, and 1120 tons cargo, shipped at Southern ports. She took in about 90 tons of cargo here, chiefly oonsilting of produce. 'he Dunedin Star of' March 13 Bays "It is stated that the silver salver presented to the Escaped Nun on the occasion of her farewell locture in Dunedin was paid for out of the takings of the previous night's discussion with Mr. Fred. Fultou, the proceeds of which were to be devoted to the Home for Fallen Women, The piece of plate cost £13 10s,"