NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7897, 16 March 1887, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Dorio at Wellington. * Fryer's circus has arrived, and opeM to- - 4; now that the Kimberley goldfield is a failure. Mr. 1C O. Reid has assumed editorial control of the Dunedin Herald The newspapers generally are dissatisfied because Hall has not been hanged. Mr, J. M. D. Larnach, manager of the Bank of Victoria, at Fitzroy, died on March 3. Major George, the owner of Nelson, was a passenger from Sydney by the Walrarapa yesterday. A Victorian firm of vignerons has received an order from a London firm for 60,000 gallons of wine. Lord Sandhurst has been visiting the inntitutions in Sydney. He spent a considerable time on board of the Vernon. The Lovnka, schooner, arrived at Port Darwin on March S, from Wyndham with 70 disappointed Kimberley diggers. Rear-Admiral Henry Fairfax, C.8., the j jew Admiral of the Australian Station, is a much older man than Admiral Tryon. The typhoid fever cases reported in Melbourne are numerous. On March 8, 29 cases were reported, five of which proved fatal. On the Primate and Mrs. Barry leaving Sydney, a large number of friends went down to the wharf to bid them good-bye. The Government of New South Wales expect to save £12,000 a year by dispensing with the services of assistant clerks of petty sessions. The official returns just published show that the estimated population of Queensland on the 31st December was 343,768, being an increase of 3565. Entries for the events at the Auckland Plumpton course on the 9th are to be received up to Friday, ISth instant, at the Queen's Ferry Hotel. In connection with the excursion to Otorohanga on St. Patrick's Day, it is notified that vehicles, saddle horses, and guides will lxs ready at Tanner's accommodation house, Otorohanga. The Minister of Defence of Victoria has received information from London that 12 quick-tiring Nordenfeldt six-pounder guns will b« shipped to Victoria during the preBent year. The lawn tennis match between the Hamilton and Cambridge clubs will not come off on St. Patrick's Day, the former club declining to play on other than their own ground. At a conference of the metropolitan munipolities of Victoria, on March 9, it was decided to ask the Government to secure the repeal of the early-closing clauses of the Factories and Shops Act. At the special meeting of the Melbourne Presbytery, on March S, the Rev. A. Kardie was appointed a commissioner to proceed to Fiji, to make an inquiry into the state of the Presbyterian Chuirch at Suva. In order to meet the convenience of the mercantile public, the Railway Commissioners of Victoria have decided to issue annual through tickets between Melbourne and Sydney, for first-class passengers only. The prices will be £75 each. March 3rd being the second anniversary of the departure of the Australian Contingent for t»e Soudan, the occasion was celebrated in a fitting manner by the members of the B Company of the Contingent by a dinner and muScid evening. The twenty-second annual session of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Charch of New Souitj Wiles was opened at St. Stephen's Churdj, Phillip-street, Sydney, on March S, by \he retiring Moderator, the Rev. Andrew Gydiner, M.A. Chaffey Brother intend commencing irrigation operations to the Mildura run immediately the agreement is signed. Skilled labour will be imposed from America, but ordinary labour, togetjer with the neeeaaary machinery, will be Stained in Victoria. .The work will be commenced simultaneously in Victoria and South Australia. At the Alexandra TheaVe, Melbourne, on March 6, a wrestling matife in seven styles for the all-round championshp of the world and £100 took place between Ronald Dinnie and Cannon. Each won three'alls, and the deciding fall was left for the\collar-and-elbow style. The men struggled desperately for one hour and a quarter, and at midnight, by the advice of those on the stage,* draw was agreed to. ' \ The Inspector-General of Police of Sftney has reported to the Immigration Department several cases of the abuse of the recefyy stopped food relief system. On Friday aid Saturday five of the list of drunkards, upo\ being searched at the lock-up, were found in possession of not only sums of money, but in each instance of two Government food tickets, which had been issued to them on the ground of their being " unemployed and without food." _ It is understood that the recent negotiations for the amalgamation of the Victoria Sugar Company of Melbourne, with the Colonial Sugar Refining Company of Sydney, have now been completed, and will take effect in July next. The mills in New South Wales, Queensland, and Fiji, and the refineries at Yarraville and Pyrmont will thus pass into the hands of the new company. The business of the Victoria Sugar Company, which was founded in 1857, will be continued in Melbourne as heretofore,