NEWS IS BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8949, 13 January 1888, Page 6

NEWS IS BRIEF.

A. bicycle olnb i« about to be formed in Lookliart, bui'/ar, Otahuhu, has filed his schedule; Father Gillon of Auckland is to snoceed Father Mahoney at Taurf'aga, Captain Darenry has 'resigned the secretaryship of the Northern Club. Major Dane is na'w in town, having re« turned from bis Northern toar. Some natives /com op river sold £400 worth of woo! in Whanganui a few days ago. Fifteen thous/ud one hundred pounds given for a block tfi land, 60 feet by 93 feet, in Brisbane. ?' The Whanganui Herald contends that it is a mistake do abolish the cavalry volunteers, as seams to be tended. ' The Rev. Dr, Harvey, of Whanganui, will leave f'r England in tijo Kaikoura, accompanied by Miss Harveyc The U'hatiganui Ckonlols is publishing a aeries of excellent, descriptive articles entitled, 11 A Trip W Taupo." The hay crop lias been got well in, «md is on the whole Vary good. The little rain last week did mo/a good than barm. A man nCmed Jones sent a challenge to Harry LaMig, but L&ing is not willing to do business for less than £50 a-side. Sharks are plentiful in the harbour, yes* terday one of about six or seven feet was caught near the Queen-street Wharf. TXe crops throughout the Waikato are Irving exceedingly well. Cereals, especially Wheat, give promise of a heavy yield. Curing bis address at the opening of St. Mary's Church, Tauranga, on January S, Bishop Luck described Tauranga as a 4l lovely little place." Last Saturday a lad named White was killed in Melbourne by the sudden descent of -a lift. His head was completely severed from his shoulders.

Captain Edwin advised at twenty-five minutes past twelve p.m. yesterday, east to north and N.W. gale and heavy rain within next twelve hours, and further fall of glass. By the f Uuroto, from Dunedin for Melbourne, on. January 4, Mr. William Hastie, of West 'laierl, shipped a splendid lot of 25 mares and geldings, and also some buggy horses. The seven public electrio lighting companies of New York have, by competition, brought down the price per arc lamp per hour from 7d to figures ranging between 5d and 21.

The question of the New South Wales and New Zealand 'cable rates will be one of the moat import/jt subjects under consideration at the forth/'jming conference of PostmastersGeneral.

There was not » single charge of forgery in the criminal calendar for trial at the Supreme Court in Christchurch. This is the more remarkable as this has not been fhe case for many years, the crime having been particularly rife. Designs are invited by the Sydney Government for a Centenary Challenge Race Cup, made of pure Australian gold, of the value of £500, to be competed for by the yachts on the 26th instant— day of the centenary of the colony. The VVhanganui Rifle Association is is a rather bad way financially. Last year the pri"js were small, and there appears to be a idling that unless the amounts be made ' .irger a meeting would have little attraction for a largo number of the shooting men. The natives, being up to all the European sports, had Aunt Sally ait the races at Wairoa, Taaranga, a few (lays ago, which cansed great excitement, and the proprietor was well patronised, but had to close on account of the stock of pipes having run out.

The Bruce Herald says: "Judging by some samples we have been shown, our staple Otago crops ought this year to be something grand. On one ear of oats, Mr. Middleton, of Milburn, counted 325 grains. Mr W. Moore, of the same district, counted the grains on one plant; there were six ears, and they averaged 230 each."