NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9066, 29 May 1888, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A claim at Walomo ia named "The Saurian Monster." . . .Roberta, the escaped Timaru convict, is Still at large. . •• Tono-ariro is more active than it has been during' the past 19 years. Several whales have been seen lately off the Brothers in Cook's Strait. Captain Edwin predicted yesterday north to west and south-west gale, with rain. A' consumptive from Sydney went to Napier specially to be treated at the Napier Hospital. m About twenty minutes past nine last night a bright lunar rainbow was visible in the western sky. A Typographical Association has been formed at Christchurch, and 60 members have already joined. ~ • The New Zealand Shearers' Union issaid not to be a success. They were £400 in debt to the head office. A number of revolvers were stolen from Mason and Struthers ironmongery shop, Christchurch, last week. The sawmillers in the Wairarapa are said to have reduced the rate of wages paid, owing to the depression in the trade. Only 12 votes were received at the local option poll at Northcote last Saturday, 8 being against an increase of licenses. The railway authorities are said to be trying wood in place of coal on some Canterbury lines with very satisfactory results. The deer liberated some years ago on the Otekaike run, Oamaru, are said to be prospering. They are in splendid condition, fmd very wild. Yesterday Miss Francis Davis, recently of the Newton East School, left for Taraxiaki to take up the position of assistant teacher at the Manaia School. A shipping clerk at the Thames Wharf •was severely hurt on the face the other day by being struck with the loading of a heaving line thrown from the 8.8. Rotomahana. It is stated that quite a number of young men have lately left Cambridge for Australia and the "mining centres, in consequence of work being scarce in the Waikato. The manager of Mr. H. Reynolds' creamery at Pukerimu states that in the past season he has been making a pound of butter from 221b 2oz of milk, a feat to be only beaten by Jersey stock. Search has been made by Constable Foreman for the body of the man Kenny, who was drowned in the Kaipara Harbour, but without result. Deceased is said to have left a wife and three children in Ireland. As showing the value of rabbit-proof fences, a colony of rabbits was found four miles inside a rabbit-proof fence in the Hurunui district. They are supposed to Lave been carried there by some malicious person. A sale of country lands was held yesterday at the Crown Lands office by Mr. Percy Smith. Competition was dull. Many pieces were disposed of at the upset price, and a considerable amount was not disposed of. An old offender, John Henry Donovan, was sentenced at Christchurch yesterday to 25 months' imprisonment for obtaining money by falsely pretending that he was collecting subscriptions for the starving families of the unemployed. A Southern paper says:—"The Government has ' scooped a pool' already of £10.000 •in fees under the Bankruptcy Act. This nice little stocking has been emptied into the consolidated revenue, and this Act was meant for the relief of creditors ?"

Mr. Duncan Wright's services at Wairoa South have been much appreciated. On Priday last he brought to a close his week of interesting meetings. On each evening large congregations assembled and were pleased and edified by his gospel addresses.