NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9015, 30 March 1888, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Summer weather again. Prohibitionists beaten in Ponsonby. Tho building trade is very active in Wellington at present. Mr. Spreckels, of San Francisco, is expected by the Alameda. The mail by the direct steamer Ruapehu was delivered yesterday morning. The Rev. J. S. Hill is conducting a mission at> the Thames. Large congregations. An unusually large number of tourists have visited Mount Cook during the season. Mr. James Jordan, clerk in the R.M. Court, Auckland, will be transferred to the Thames. . Mr. J. E. Hansen has opened a subscription list at the Thames for the sufferers by the Norse wood fire. _ An order h«vs been issued that mails arriving in ellington on Sunday shall not be sorted till Monday. We understand that Mr. Joseph Barber has been appointed secretary for the North New Zealand Woollen Company. A farmer at the Hutt was offered "djier pound for his wool, but stood out for 7id. At the February sales in London it realised Another volume on the Islands of the South Pacific will shortly be issued in England. The writer is Mr. Vines, so well known in Auckland. Mr. W. P. Moat, M.H.R., who has been ill for a month from the effects of a sunstroke suffered by him while working at his place at MahurangK is again about, having almost entirely recovered. The I.aing and Matthews' fight was stopped by th? police. Matthews came off second best, and it is said that if the tight had not been stopped, he would have been knocked out in a few minutes. In consequence of the retirement of Mr. J M. McLaren. Mining Inspector, Mr. George Wilson, of Te Aroha. will remove to the Thames and assume charge of the whole of the Hauraki Gold fields a* Mining Inspector. It is said that if Mr. Cecil Raikes is appointed Governor of New Zealand, the Bill reducing the salary of the office will not be allowed''by the Home Government, on the ground that the appointment was virtually made before the Bill was passed. The liabilities in the estate of ManMason, boardinghouse-keeper, Wellington, are set down at £110 15s t>d, as follow : — Samuel H. W ebb, Auckland. £69 15s lid ; Mrs. Leatham, £22 ; Alex. McDonald, £4: A. G. Price, £10: Mrs. Walker, Auckland, £5: total, £110 15s 6d. The assets are nil. The Greenwood family were unfortunate in meeting with bad weather on their way to Greymouth. It took them nearly a week to accomplish the journey, owing to the Mawhera being obliged to run for shelter off Cape Farewell, and then not being able to cross the Grey for several days. Mr. Bracken," who, in conjunction with Sir Julius Vogel and other gentlemen, is making arrangements for the Picturesque Pacific Atlas, lias returned. Mr. Bracken has spent several weeks in Sydnev and* Melbourne, appointing canvassers and doing other work to forward the interest of the enterprise.