NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8072, 13 October 1887, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Dividends : South British payable to*day; Saxon to-morrow ; Cambria on Tuesday. Formal opening "of North New Zealand Woo Hen Factory, at Onohunga, next Saturday afternoon. A petition to be adjudged a bankrupt has been filed by James ;*tanton, Alten Road, carpenter and boarding-house keeper. Captain Edwin advised yesterday atl —45 p.m. ; East to north and north-west gales, with heavy rain, within the next 12 hours. _ The Balmoral Castle left for London via the South yesterday evening. From here ahe took but a small cargo of kauri gum, wool, etc. . . „ „x- t . During the sitting of the Native Lands Court at Ohinemuri, it disposed of 21 succession claims, and some of them wore very hardly contested. . Chief Judge Macdonald declines to grant a rehearing in the case of the Little Barrier Island, which has already been several times before the Court, Mr. J. Lawford, manager of the Auckland branch of the Bank of Australasia, has returned from his holiday in Australia, much improved in health. An inquest will bo held to»day, at eleven o'clock, at the Robert Burns Hotel, Unionstreet, into the causes of the late fira at Mr. McNamara'a premises in Wellington-street. It is very generally rumoured in regard to the forthcoming Mayoralty election that one of the councillors has had most encouraging offers of support from various district* in the city. Mr. Ewington makes an interesting statement respecting our lunatics, in another column, in giving an account of the official visit made by him and Mr. Stevenson (official visitors) yesterday. . The San Francisco mail steamer Alameda is due here with the London and American mails to-day. Her dates are from London to the 7th September, and from San Francisco to the 23rd of the same month. An elderly woman named Mrs. Annie Cooper, was adjudged a lunatic yesterday by the Resident Magistrate on the testimony of Dre. Coom and McMullen, and was committed to the Avondale Asylum. Mr. W. H. Wakeham has forwarded his petition to the House of Representatives containing his complaints against Mr. Reston and the gaol authorities to Mr. Withy, the member for Newton, who will present it in due course. A meeting of shareholders of the Waitoa Prospecting Association will be held to-day at four o'clock p.m. to receive the report of assays made by Messrs. Pond, provincial analyst, and E. H. Whitaker, and to decide on future action.

At the Papakura R.M. Court on Tuesday, four Germans were committed for trial for Alleged forcible eviction of Mr. W. A, White from a farm owned by Mr. Halliwell. The charge of assault made by Mr. Halliwell against Mr. White, was withdrawn. The 8.8. Richmond will leave this morning on her third cruise to the islands of the South Pacific with a full general cargo and several passengers. Her cargo contains, amongst other items, a quantity of preserved meats, corned beef, etc., live sheep and bullocks, dressed and rough sawn timber, potatoes, butter, soap, et«.