NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7919, 11 April 1887, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The coursing at Papatoetoe on Saturday a BU A eß te'am laundry has been established in Wellington. assembled at Taranaki have The volunteers assembled at Taranaki have been very rowdy. „,.'. . . The Taranaki club will just clear itself by the late meeting. _ . , t . „«. Sportsmen have been fairly successful at the Thames in duck shooting. Mr Cowio has been appointed manager or tho Whsnganui Meat Company. The Island Bay Park, Racing, and Coursing Company, is to be wound-up. The Wellington Association of Spiritualists have commenced a series of services. _ Weather still continues fine. Good for Easter encampments but bad for the grass. The Hokianga County Council regard the success of the village settlement scheme as assured. A theatrical company, under the management of Mr. McGowan opens at the Thames to-night. .. "• . , , The Grey River Argus says that bad weather is the terror, of show people on the West Coast. ~ , . . '_~ Mr. George Aldridge, evangelist, of Auckland, is to visit New Plymouth on his return from the South. „„i,,„ Rev. Mr. Bates' discourse to the volunteers yesterday at the Lake was a model for such an occasion. ~ The public library in Chnstchurch is said to be "a chronic source of grumbling and dissatisfaction." , ~ The Wellington Post advocates that the offer of Ashcroft and Co., to light the city by electricity should be accepted. At a late election meeting in Wellington it was stated that there were in that city about 600 or SOO persons out of employment. This evening a concert and dance takes place at Panmure, in connection with the pupils of Professor Townsend, who will give his services on the occasion. On Saturday the notices were distributed to the policyholders in the Government Insu ranee Association, showing the amount of bonus which Is comiDg to each. The wheat crop this season in the W hanganui district has been saved in very poor condition, most of the grain being shrivelled and discoloured owing to rust and blight. The rabbit proof fence at the southern boundary of Hawke's Bay is now twentyone miles in length, and material is nowbeing carted for a further section of four miles. ~ The Eiversdale estate, about four miles from Asbburton, comprising 2367 acres, with the necessary buildings, sold a few days ago for £17,550, the purchaser being Mr. Strange, of Christchurch. . The March number of the Australasian Medical Gazette contains an article by Dr. Caro, Napier, on "The Remedial Effects of Priest's Bath at Rotorua (N.Z.) in Cases of Spinal Paralysis." The accomplished tenor, Mr. Tom Eurnlam, sang for the last time in St. Patrick's ihoir last night. His acknowledged vocal gifts and musical attainments made him a valued member of the|choir. The insurances in connection with the Stanley-street fire are:—On Mr. W. S. Laurie's building: £500 in the South British Insurance Company, half of which wss reinsured; stock in ditto, £1000, of which £750 was reinsured in several offices. The Taranaki Herald says:—"lt is averred that one or two Taranaki boys have been making a rare harvest during the race days, in doing what is called ' bearing up ' for the magsmen and speelers who have recently been polluting the atmosphere of this ■most Edenlike of localities."