NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9047, 7 May 1888, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Kemp's victory very popular. _ Captain Edwin keeps predicting heavy rains. . ~ , A skating rink h-\s been established Hawera. The English footballers arc carrying all before them. Germany has withdrawn from the Samoan convention. It is proposed to introduce electric light to the Thames. There have been sharp frosts in Christchurch in the mornings. The ante-Chinese agitation in Invercargill is becoming threatening. The Government have decided to delare all Chinese ports infected. There has been an unusual export of barley from Nelson this year. The New Plymouth. Borough Council has been reducing expenditure. _ A Hindoo nirnod Rer Nundo Lai Dors, has been lecturing in Wellington. The exports from Grey mouth for last week of coal, colw, fire bricks, and fire clay were 4678 tons. Wages at Broken Hill aro £3 a week to good miners, and to labourers 40s. Board is 35s a-week. ThePatea chief, Taurua, who was friendly to the Europeans during the war with the natives, died a few evenings ago. Mr. Ross, a settler from Wanganui, has lately been buying horses in Taranaki, it is presumed for troop horses in India. A Masterton tradesman gave a solicitor £40 worth of debts to collect. He gathered £11, and charged his client £13 Is fordoing so.

It is stated that during tho last 14 years the Chinese on Round Hill goldfields, near River ton, have taken £20,000 a year from the ground. The Roman Catholic body in the Palmerston district intend erecting a handsome church there, converting tho present edifice into a schoolroom.

Cavorsham Borough declines to pay its contribution to the Charitable Aid Board, on the ground that it is a case of the poor supporting the poor. The Southland Times says from all parts of New Zealand the Waihora last Friday took 234 passengers for Melbourne, made up of 73 saloon and 161 steerage. At South Dunedin the Salvation Army have been turned out of a hall that they have used for a couple of years, in order that it may be converted into a skating rink. In response to an appeal from the Central Branch of the Irish National League £30 has been contributed by residents in Tokomairiro, Otago, who are in sympathy with the object of the League. The Occidental Hotel, Vulcan Lane, has again changed hands, and is now occupied by Mr. Lowton Lowten, late of Napier, who hats commenced a systematic improvement in the internal arrangements of tho hotel. The officer of the Thames Board of Health, Mr. A; Fleming, reports only two cases of fever existing within the borough during the past month, and also adds that tho borough is now free from any infectious disease.

At the meeting of the Harbour Board tomorrow, Mr. Niccol will move the following resolution :—" That tho Harbour Master be instructed not to board vessels for the purpose of , berthing same, until the vessel is brought up at the usual anchorage ground.' A Wellington correspondent says: " Speaking from an intimate knowledge of the telegraph service in the sister colonies, I am bound to say that the New Zealand Telegraph Department is far and 'away the most capable and efficient in Australasia." , .. , . .