NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7976, 16 June 1887, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Wellington Chess Club is In a flourishing condition. _ ■ „ . . , The Christchurch Poultry Sooiety expect a successful show. Rain continues. So far this has been the one of the wettest winters on record. Rawiri te Mamaru, a Maori chief resident at Moerakei, died a few days ago at the age ° f The Christchurch Bicycle Club have decided to take part in the Jubilee procession, and to wear fancy costumes. We have received from Lady Jervois circulars with respect to the establishment of a Queen's Fund in New Zealand. ... c Mr. H. W. Brewer is gazetted Collector ot Customs at Christchurch, and Mr. W. J. Barley to be warehousekecpor. , Mr. Robert Lee, Inspector of Schools lor fcho Wellington educational district, is about to leave for England on a holiday trip. Major Boddam has just inspected the defence works at Lyttelton, and tho material lately received from England, including the six-pounder Nordenfeldt gun. Salvationists in Christchnrch are making extensive preparations in view of joining in the general procession on June 21. Several Maoris and others are to take part. The North Otago Times states that at present 500 men are employed in the Morth Ofcaco district in digging and bagging potatoes, and are earning S3 a day on the The'officers of the Durham-street Wesleyan Cnurch, Christchurch, have decided to celebrate the Jubilee by a free tea to the unemployed and all others in need during the eventful week. £>*."< , , At the Salvation Army Barracks, Wellington, the other night they had a "Happy Married Couple*' meeting," when as a novelty, the meeting being public, the husbands were allowed to speak first. In New Zealand there are 10- Roman Catholic priests, of whom 1 is 1 * colonist, 3 Germans, S English. IScotch, -1 French, and 64 Irishmen ; o Bishops, of whom 1 i 3 an Irishman, and the other _ Englishmen. . One of the Maori houses which were exhibited by Sir Walter Buller at the late Indian and Colonial Exhibition has been forwarded by the owner to Wellington, and has within the last few days been erected in the Colonial Museum. . - The following is from Lloyds Weekly Newspaper .—Thomas Albert Bishop, who was last heard of seven or eight years ago, when he was addressed, Bishop Park 1 l»n tation, Neakon, Rorotoaga, Cook's Groups, South Pacific," is sought by his mother, who is very ill. _ , At Christchurch Mr. Douglas WynnWilliams has passed the examination for a "barrister previously admitted." The law examinations for a barrister have bean passed by Mr. Louis Cohen, and those for a solicitor by Messrs. Frederick Edward Cobby and Charles H. Franks. _ Mr. Brabner, coachbuilder, of Lhristshurch. has just constructed a remarkably fine drag. Toe vehicle is intended to carry 22 passengers comfortably. The timber used in the carriage consists of kauri, red gum, Iron bark, and English ash, while tile poles are of American hickory.