NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7921, 13 April 1887, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

, Mb. John Waymouth has now well recovered from illness. It is said that the spielers olearod £600 at Reefton races by the three-card trick alone. The Manapouri brought but a few passengers from Sydney, and only 50 tons cargo for this port. . On Saturday, the 12th instant, the ceremony of lighting the gas in Noumea was performed by the Mayor. Sir R. Stout looks upon his late speech in Auckland as a continuation of his work of "political education of the people." Excitement in art circles. The coming exhibition to be by far the best we have . had.. Auckland is nothing if not aesthetic. A fire broke out in a stable at Port Melbourne on Saturday morning, and six horses, ' which could not be resoued, were roasted to death. • Mr. Ballance spoke the other day of New {Zealand drawing population from Australia. It has been the other way about for several years. n . Greymou'ch has been unusually foil of Chinese this mOnth, they having flocked in for the purpose of celebrating the " Feast of the Dead." . There are 50 men at the Morialta diggings, S.A,, and the majority are making good wages; £*200 worth of gold was Bold to one firm since Saturday last. A meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board was called for yesterday afternoon, but lapsed, there being not sufficient mem" bers present to form a quorum. The Rev. Mr. Bunn, on leaving Palmerston North for Patea, was presented with a handsomely illuminated address by the members of the Young Men's Improvement Society, The Rev. A. Hardie has been empowered by the Melbourne Presbytery to visit Suva and Fiji, and to make a careful inquiry into the causes which led to the resignation of the Rev. L. Rennison. The Hobarc City Counoil has decided to celebrate the Jubilee by building a clock tower, and by illuminations at the Town Hall. There will also be a feast for school children, and a procession. The duty upon cheese in Adelaide is 3d per lb. and in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane 2d per lb. No wonder cheesemaking does not pay in New Zealand. Could we not get these colonies to take off the protective duties? The Sydney Evening News asks Is it true that when Holt was in Parramatta Gaol he varied the weariness of his confine- • ment by smoking cigars, drinking porter, and writing letters for one of the visiting officials ?" Among the new subjects which the committee of the Canterbury College recommend should form part of the regular course of instruction at the Girls' High School ore cutting out clothes, swimming, shorthand, bookkeeping, and ambulance work. Mr. F. G. Ewington acknowledges with thanks the receipt of a handsome fire screen, sent to him by the Hon. Colonel Haiiltain for the Lunatic Asylum ; also a large picture from Mr. JDe Courcy, books from Mr. Morley, papers from Messrs. Kiddand Wildman, •laud A Fri6i d. The Melbourne Argus of April 2 reports that a number of gentlemen met at the Town Hall on Friday afternoon, for the purpose of organising a benefit concert, to be given at 'an early date, as a suitable recognition of the rare musical talents displayed by the Joran Sisters, who are shortly leaving Aus- , tralia. The election of the Tapanul (Otago) • Licensing Committee has been declared void, principally on the grounds that the return- * ling officer scratched out of the voting paper the names of two of the candidates when he had discovered that they were illegally ; nominated, and that the names of these two ■were inserted on the polling papers when ' they ought not to have been there. ' — V,