NEWS IN BRIFF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9021, 6 April 1888, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIFF.

♦ * : ; A pmsf- display of game wan made at . Dhristcharch at the opening of the season. Three fawns have been sent to Mr. Hood : it the Chatham Islands to be turned adrift to'breed. " * - _, » Mr. W. P. Street, formerly Mayor of , Dunedin, is about to reside permanently in . \ Melbourne. „ ; Wire nails, from 1J to 3 inches, are now - being manufactured by a company at Heath I' Cote, Christchurch. _" ~ \ • Principal Warder Bratby, of the Dunedm Gaol, has received the appointment of gaoler S- . at Laveroargill. _. In the draughts match between Otag© Mid Canterbury, Otago won by 556 games bo 17 15 games were drawn. . ■•. ■ It is stated that the man Buck, who was seriously injured by falling off the step ot a tramcar, is now in a fair way of recovery, at , the District Hospital. ..- Among the rinkers at the Rink last . evening were same of the "devils own They always have a proclivity, for doing ' business " wheels within wheels. ■ No less than 53 certificates of marriages were issued in Dunedin during March. With one exception this is the "beston record "for upwards of a dozen years. The late mission of the Kev. J. c>. Hill at the Thames was interesting and successful. The meeting held in St. George's Church on ' the evening of Good Friday will long be remembered. , ,' . ■ ■•.' , , The Mangare bridge is getting unsafe for heavy traffic, and the public are cautioned against driving or riding over it at other than a walking pace, or driving mobs of - cattle over it. ■_ The Dunedin Herald has passed into the hands of a new proprietary. In an article it etates that it has a mission. The planks of its platform are—Protection, the Rights of Labour, the interests of Otago. For the month of March there were reported to the Sanitary Inspector 33 cases of infectious diseases, of which 28 were typhoid and three scarlet fever. Over half the number were in the Ponsonby Ward. The Rev. H. T. Rob Johns, E.A., is on his way to Auckland from the South to take 5-i part in the annual meeting of the British 1? and Foreign Bible Society, which takes place on Monday, 16th instant, in St. James Presbyterian Church. A meeting of. Justices will be held in the Resident Magistrate's Court, to-day, at noon, in order to revise the jury list for the ensuing year. Those persons who desire to have their names removed from the list on the ground of over age, physical infirmity, or other causee, should be in attendance.