NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7649, 28 May 1886, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are said to be 2000 factories in Victoria. A great many horses have died in Queensland from a disease which cannot be ascertained. A man has been arrested in Sydney on the charge of absconding from his bail sixteen years ago. The Hon. E. C. J. Stevens has been elected president of the Christchuroh Horticultural Society. The late Mr. H. P. Lance was about 55 years of age, and was tho son of a Somersetshire rector of old family. The Waikato Times says :—" Sir Robert Stout's name ought to have come after those of 'Sir Harry Atkinson' and 'Sir John Bryce.' " The new buildings of the Australian Mutual Provident Society in Dunedin are to be commenced at once by Mr. James Smales, contractor. The Gear Meat Preserving and Freezing Company have taken a contract for the supply of all stores to the Japanese man-of-war Tsukuba. It is said that when the faots come out about the purchase of the district railways, there will be some revelations as to how " the oracle can bo worked." With a population of 23,000, Dunedin has four members ; with a population of 26,000, Wellington has three ; with a population of 33,000, Auckland has fonr. In future gas-pipes and plant for local bodies are to be carried on the Auckland, Napier, Wellington, and Wanganui Railways at the classified rates for class D. Some of the members at Wellington are, it is said, very anxious for a short session, that they may go home to London to spend their honorarium in seeing the Exhibition. Thus Captain Edwin, the insatiable, at four p.m. yesterday :— Every indication of glass falling soon, and strong winds between north and east and south-east, and rain after twelve hours." One of the four new American cars on the Pulman principle, nude at the Addington railway workshops for the Wellington and Masterton railway, is now temporarily in use on the Hutt line. The Grey Argus stigmatises a reply sent by Mr. Maxwell, manager of railways, to a civil request made by a public body as "official puppyism," and predicts that before another year is over Mr. Maxwell's management will receive more attention and criticism at the hands of the publio than he will care for. A marriage took place on May 19 at St. Paul's Cathedral, Wellington, between Sir Norman M. A. Campbell, Bart, and Mrs. Cotterell, widow of the late Mr. George Cotterell, and formerly Miss Isabella Carandini. Only a few friends were present. The bride was given away by Mr. W. H. Levin, and the wedding breakfast took place at hiß house.