NEWS IN BRIEF

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9013, 28 March 1888, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF

The Herd Laddie is at Oamaru. The Thames Advertiser says that the talk is of syndicates. ■ The" present month has been one of the wettest months of March on record. The Stock Exchange was closed yesterday on account of the funeral of Mr. Morpeth. The last words of the Emperor William were, "Fritz ! lieber Fritz !" (Fritz ! dear Fritz) ! Laing, the pugilist, arrived in Auckland the other day. Matthews is being trained at Ellerslie. Sir John Coode's scheme for improving the navigation of the Clarence river is estimated to cost £580.000. The revised Midland Railway contract has been sent to London for the signature of the London directors of the company. The chief measure to be introduced into the Victorian Legislature next session will be an Electoral Bill and a Customs a I ill Bill. , , ~ Mr. W. R. Wilson, the purchaser of the New Find and Silver King mines, was a passenger for Sydney by the Te Anau yesterday. Mr. Poland, the second teacher of the Devon port school, is to be Mr. Airey's successor as second master of the Thames High School. . There were two prisoners in the lock-up last evening, nnmelv, one for drunkenness, and William O'Brien for being drunk and disorderly. A young girl living near Wilcannia committed suicide with poison. She had been despondent in consequence of the death of her lover. — Specimen stones from the South Australian rubv mines have been examined in London, and are pronounced to be garnets, worth 2s a carat. At the Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. Collins and Buddie. J.P. Patrick Dougherty and Benjamin Scott were lined 5s and costs each for being drunk. The Government intend to deal with the case of deferred payment settlers who are in arrears with their" rent in a special Bill to be introduced early in next session. A correspondent at New Plymouth writes that the schools have been the great spreaders of diphtheria, but the blue-gum steam treatment has been invariably successful. The Australasian Insurance and Banking Record considers that the effect of Mr. Goschen's conversion scheme may be to cause more money to.tlow to the colonies. _ M. Joseph Gaut, landscape and portrait painter, who has been travelling through the northern portion of New Zealand for some time past', is at present in Wellington. The local option }\ill took place in New Plymouth vesterday, but only 78 voters availed themselves' of the privilege. The votes were against any increase in licensed

houses. The Auckland portion of the direct mail brought by the Ruapehu. which arrived at Wellington on Sunday night, is on board the* Wainui, which is expected to reach Auckland this evening. A Southern jxuxjr recorded a threshing machine accident by which it stated that the muscles of a man's face were torn badly. A local paper corrected, and said that it was merely the res of his pants that suffered. Complaints are becoming somewhat frecuer.t lately that the Thames harbour is fast silting: up. and it is suited that banks of tailing# ate now accumulating at the end of Goods Wharf. In consequence of this, the s.s. Rotomahana is often unable to get away from the wharf at her advertised time. Mr. Keischek has written to Mr. D. H. Hastings, secretary of the .media Chamber of "Commerce." asking him to forward him samples of wool and cereal? crown in Ocago. as on his return to Austria he intends civinc a series of popular and scientific lectures on the colony in the principal towns of Euroi>e. A grand stool of hybridised white Tuscan wheat is being exhibited at Oamaru. The bunch or stool grown from a single seed has :>"> stalks. and bears the enormous quantity of 2.50.3 grains or berries. Stools of wheat have been exhibited in the Old Country containing 1 x '» grains, but this exhibit beats these hollow. It will be remembered that at the marriage of the Princess Royal of England and the present Emperor of Germany, the Eton boys manifested their loyalty and enthus'' -m by taking the horses out and drawing the" carriage with the bridal pair to the railwav-station. Amongst the Eton bovs the Hon. Charles Robert Carrington was one. The bride has become the Empress of an Empire whose present state was then but as a dream, too bright for realisation ; and the Eton boy whose name is mentioned is now Her Majesty"? representative in New South Wales, the" Right Hon. the Lord Carrington.