NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9026, 12 April 1888, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Still fine weather. . " . ' Suburban land sales are the rage in Wellington. r • • ' Major, Jackson, M.H.R., came to town last evening. ~, . , ~. 5 The Herd Laddie has now worked his way up to Christchurch. The resignation of Maior-General Sir Geo. S. Whitmore, K.C.M.G., as commander of the New Zealand forces and Under-Secre-tary of Defence, is gazetted. It is reported that a prospecting party from Waitdra, who have been in the country near the head waters of the Wan ganui, have found copper ore. The Napier Park Racing Club made a profit of over £500 by the last meeting, and a number of improvements to the course and appurtenances are to be proc&cclocL with. The Otago Daily Times, in a leading article, strongly urges the claims of Inspectors Shearman and Weldon to exceptional treatment in the retrenchment

scheme., .. , The Thames Advertiser says: Two of our best known mine managers are in receipt of cablegrams from Silverton offering ' them £500 a-year to assume the same duties over there." . , , _ , • News has been received of the death of Mr. John M'Gregor, the discoverer of the Lake Wakatipu gold diggings, Otago, at his residence, Balmenach, Strathspey, Scotland, on February 15. • At five minutes to four p.m. yesterday Captain Edwin telegraphed as follows: — " North-east and north and west gale after 12 hours from now ; glass further fall; indications of rain." The Dunedin Herald contends that our local banks should be protected against competition by banks not belonging to the jolony, and says: Patriotism and protection are synonymous terms." The railway revenue for the year ended on March 31 is £60,000 less than was estimated by Sir Harry Atkinson in November lasi, and no less than £110,000 under Sir Julius Vogel's estimate of the previous May. Mr. T. M. Lawlor is gazetted clerk of the Resident Magistrate's and Warden's Courts at Te Aroha; Constable J. W. Moar, as clerk of the Resident Magistrate Court at Mangonui; and Mr. James Jordan as a cadet 'in the Resident Magistrate s Court, Thames. We are informed that Mr. J. C. MacCartiewho has been connected for the last six years with the Dunedin Brewery— is about to leave for Melbourne to conduct and edit 4 ' The Australian Brewers' Journal," a prosperous and widely-circulated trade publication. At the last, meeting of the Sydenham British Israel Association, Mr. R. Bell read » paper on the " Multitudinous Seed promised to Abraham," arguing that that promise could not have been fulfilled till after the death of Jesus, who came " to confirm the promises made to the fathers " (Romans xv., 8). . Some interest was caused in Wyndhametreet yesterday forenoon by the appearance of a group of wedding carriages in the • street. These had assembled for the conveyance to St. Patrick's Cathedral of Mr. Lush and Miss Margaret Lonergan, who were united in wedlock at that church by the Very Rev. Father Hackett.