NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7863, 4 February 1887, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Gold found at Whananake, north of Wha« Egarei. Trout have been seen in the Orona river, near Feilding. There were two prisoners in the lock-up, both for drunkenness.

A number of cases of sunstroke have lately occurred in Canterbury. The Queen's assent to a number of Acts passed last session is gazetted. A Napier paper strongly urges Sir Julius Vogel to try the baths at Napier. Messrs Hoffman and Sons, of Auckland, have opened a business in Napier. The F;sk Jubilee Singers have had a series 0 successes all through the North Island.

The Gazette notifies that Mr. Charles Rhodes has been appointed assayer of gold.

Mr. Edwards, the amateur tenor sioger, left for Melbourne by the Te Anau yesterday. Hastings, Wanganui, and Gisborn®, are said to bo the most du3ty towns iu New Zealand.

The next excursion of the Auckland Fishing Club will take place to morrow, starting at 1.10 p.m. The spread of the typhoid fever contagion in Me!bouru» appears to be increasing at an alarming rate. The appointment of Mr. Thomas Jackson a3 R.M. for the district of Waikato and Radian is gazetted.

The Bruce Herald says that the Rev. Mr. Bowies' "faith-healing" persuasion is simply the tllect of softening of the brain.

The Auckland Presbyterian ministerial and lay representatives who are to attsnd the Presbyterian Generel Assembly at Wellington, left yesterday by the Te Anau. The Scorpion has gone hence to Tahiti. Whilst here her officers surveyed a large portion of the harbour and its entrance. The Congregational congregation at Lawrence have decided to give a call to the Rev. E. D. Cecil, a new arrival from England.

No living writer or public man in Great Britain has proposed, directly or indirectly, to tax the colonies for Imperial purposes.

'The melon plant in Taranaki is this season being attacked by an aphis very similar to the parasite which is found on rose bushes.

A number of the Southern members of the Wesleyan Conference returned home by the as. Te Anau which left yesterday afternoon.

The barque Brunette arrived last evening from Newcastle after a passage of 47 days. Very heavy weather was the cause of this long voyage. 2s' ot withstanding the hard times, the deferred payment: settlers in TaraDaki are meeting the January half yearly payment promptly. At the Island Bay races, Wellington, a dozen speelers were playing the three-card trick, while half-a-dczen were told off to watch the police.

The Gazette notifies the acceptance of the resignation of Major Pitt as member of the Examination Board for militia and volunteers, Auckland district.

The Westport Times says th.it the water famine is general i.long the coast. In Grey mouth and Hokitlka the fire-engines are utilised to replenish the tanks.

Captain Northcroft, Resident Magistrate for the Waikato, has arrived in Wanganui to relieve Mr. Ward, who .baa been granted three months' leave of absence.

The Rev. C. E. Ward returned from the Wellington conference yesterday. Many of cur readers will be pleased to learn ttiafc Mr. Ward is re stationed for the Franklin Road church of this city, and will conduct service there on Sandav next. 'I he future of Australia (says the Argus) vrill depend on the men and women born tcre; and the more speedily, the more earnestly, and the more generally they learn to an interest and a part in all that concefes the welfare of the colony the better. One of the chief obstacles to the irrigation of the northern areas of Victoria lies in the qa'it oa as to whether that colony has the right to draw an unlimited quantity of water from the River Murray, which flows through the territories of South Australia and .New South Wales.