NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7787, 5 November 1886, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Ik Viotoria, an attempt to murder is a capital crime. The Colonial Bank are about to erect new premises in Wanganui. Captain Edwin telegraphed yesterday at thirteen minutes past twelve p.no. tb»t there were indications that she glass would farther rise. At the Anglican Synod, meeting at Dunedin, an afternoon was mainly oooupied by a discussion in which the necessity for funeral reform waa itrongly urged. The Wellington Caledonian Sooiety have arranged to have a dinner on St. Andrew's Day. .The prizes at the Sports on New Year's Day are to be increased. The Shipping Gazette state* that information has been reoeived by the oommittee of Lloyd's that the port of Timarn is not yet a fit place for vessels of large tonnage. At a meeting of the Wellington Shorthand Writers' Association, it was reported that there were already upwards of 100 books and magazines relating to shorthand available for the nee of mem ben. The Lyttelton Times heads the correspondence between the Secretary of the Orange Sooiety and Bishop Cowie with the title "A Worthy Bishop." The Otago Daily Times heads it " A Well-merited Rebuke." On Wednesday night, at a meetinsr of the Thames County Council, it was decided to make immediate application to the Govern* ment for a loan of £12,000, under the Government Loans to Local Bodies Aofc, for roads to open up th« back country. A Dnnedin paper says:—" There has been a large inorease in the number of insolvencies of late. No less than five declarations have been filed in the iast six days, making nine for the current month, as against two for the whole of September." The prize presented by Mr. F. W. Franklyn for the best made man in the Wellington Football Club on the ground on Saturday last was awarded to Mr. W. Oopelaod, Mr. W. Pike being second. Drs. Hutohinson and Fell and Mr. A. D. Riley acted at judges. A bo/, while playing with gunpowder in Christohuroh a tew days ago, bad his face badly soorohed and his eyelashes burnt off. It is probable, too, that he will lose the sight of one eye altogether. He was spreading some of the powder with the same hand in which he held a fire-etlok, when the powder exploded within a few inches of hie faoe.