NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7648, 27 May 1886, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Wellington papers have been wrangling about " what Mr. Bryce's reception means." Mr. G. W. Basley, Deputy-Registrar of the Supreme Court, admitted yesterday as a barrister. Mre. Mitchell, vocalist, formerly of Auckland, has lately given a successful entertainment at 'Jamaru. The expense of patenting any invention is said to be greater in New South Wales than in any part of the world. A coach has been laid on from the Thames to Waiomo, in consequence of a find having recently been made there. The Anglo-German Convention with regard to the Pacidc Islands cornea into foroe on July 1, and will last till 1892. At the Brisbane Police Court recently, four New Caledonia escapees were brought up, and ordered to be returned to Noumea. An East and West Coast Railway pamphlet is about to be issued in Chrietchurch. It gives the history of the movement. The. Rev. H. C. M. Watson, incumbent of St. John's, Chrietchuroh, returned in the Kaikoura, having been on a trip to England. In laet census the County of Waitemata had a population of 4523. This timo it is expected that it will not be far short ef 7000. The Victorian Premier said at the Mayoral luncheon in Melbourne that he was confident the New Hebrides would ultimately belong to Australia. The Victorian Minister for Education says that the public school teachers in Victoria are better paid than those in any other country in the world. Mr. Dickson, the Queensland Treasurer, eaye that had it not been for Mr. Griffiths the Federal Council meeting in flobart would have resulted in a fiasco. Parties have been prospecting for gold near the Pentland Hills, about twenty miles from Waimate, Canterbury, for some time past, and some of the precious metal has been already found, At the Turua Sawmills, the Agnes Donald is now loading for Lytttlton with 50,000 feet white pine. The brig Siren is also expected to load there for Queensland with 150,000 feet white pine very shortly. The Oamaru mail referring to the statement of. Mr. Stout about the adjustment of representation, says:—"The country looks for something more than the mere patching up of the Representation Act to make it fit in with the altered distribution of population." The Timaru Herald says :—" Great activity is manifest everywhere along the line in railway business just now. At every wayside station drays are coming and going all day long, each heaped with grain and flour to be forwarded by rail. The railway officials have their hands just about as full as they can be/^Mr. P. Skerritt, who for many years has been the obliging usher at the Supreme Court, Wellington, lately successfully passed the necessary examination to entitle him to be admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court, has been appointed by the Minister of Juatico to be clerk of the Bench at Waipawa, flawke's Bay.