NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8036, 25 August 1887, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Thi Colonial Bank has opened a {branch at Otago footballers had Otago weather for the match yesterday. ........ William Patterson,painter, Auckland, hied his schedule yesterday. Eleven hundred emigrants are now on their way from England to Queensland. Five hundred shearers are now on strike In South Australia, and 300 in New South Wales. The Thames Choral Society have put in rehearsal the sacred idyll "Kebekah," by Barnby. ~ , Maori whalers at The Brothers on Monday caught a whale 92 feet long. The estimated value is £400. ~ During last week 11 cases of typhoia fever and 11 cases of diphtheria were reported in Melbourne. The New Zealand Freezing Company have decided to shift their meat tinning plant from Waitara to Auckland. A strong requisition to Sir Thomas Moilwraith is in course of preparation, to induce him to re-enter public life. . We are sorry to learn that Mr. W. Errington, engineer, is confined to the house with an attack of acute rheumatism. It is said that the London agents of the Moanatairi G.M.C. have been authorised to accept £25,000 for the property. A Wellington publican recently advertised for a barman. He received 45 applications from representatives of all grades of society. In a Government Gazette issued on the ISth instant appears a long list of people for whom letters of naturalisation have been Israel Association has been established in Christchurch. Mr. T. M. Geo has been elected president, and Mr. S. Smart vice-president. The Victorian Premier has received no official intimation of the desire on the part of the people of Fiji for the annexation of the island to Victoria. We would remind ratepayers tbat,Tuesday next at noon is the latest time for nominations to be lodged for the various ward vacancies in the City Council. Mr. Groom has been a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for years, representing the same constituency during the whole of that time. Mr. H. Thomson, one of the candidates for Christchurch South, says that if any more money is borrowed, in the scramble all retrenchment will be forgotten. The South Australian Printers' Association are seeking to have the proposed ad valorem duty on printed matter imported into the colony changed to a fixed duty. The following section of land in the Auckland provincial district has been reserved as a recreation ground : Section 49. parish of Tsupiri, blcok 12, Rangiriri survey district. A Cbristchuroh fishmonger exposed for sale a few days ago English bloaters, haddocks, turbots, and soles, which had been conveyed in the freezing chamber of the s.s. Tongariro. Mr. Ewington acknowledges with thanks 20 racks of cards from the members of the Northern Club, and a parcel of magazines from Mrs. W., for the inmates of the Lunatic Asylum. District Court Judge Forbes, of New South Wales, is of opinion that the mere formality of kissing the Bible in a court of law will not deter an habitual liar from following bis usual practise. In the published report of the Auckland Benevolent Society the name of Mrs. Tebbs was omitted from the ladies' committee, and the name of Mrs. Koberton was misprinted "Robertson." The property occupied by Messrs. Gemmell, Tuckett, and Co., having a frontage to Collins-street, Melbourne, of 33 feet and a depth of 173 feet, was sold tha other day at £1500 per foot. There were three prisoners in the lock-up last night. A woman for drunkenness, and John Considine, for a breach of the Poi.ce Offencas Act, and George Henry Adams, for false representations. Captain Edwin advised yesterday at 12.45 p.m.:—Every indication of a hard gale between the south and east and north and east, and the glass will rise soon, with exceptionally cold weather. It is probable that Mr. Lalor, the Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, will shortly retire from that office, and it iB expected that the Government will propose a money vote in recognition of his services. A splendid collection of Maori implements, heitikis, carvings, etc., has been deposited at the Auckland Institute by Mr. F. P. Corkill, of Taranaki. They are a great accession to the Institute's treasures in that depart* meat.