NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9075, 8 June 1888, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Kumara _ miners have been idle through want of water. - _ 30000 ferrets are to bo turned out in the South Island, it is said. j Professor Thomas is said to be " our most able biologist in New Zealand." ( In Dunedin ib is intended .to have a volunteer night alarm shortly. A brilliant meteor appeared in the southern sky on Wednesday evening. Bishop Suter, of Nelson, was highly pleased with the educational institutions of San Francisco. There is talk of holding a dog show at Wellington. Entries from all ports of the colony will be allowed. The dramatic troupe of the Christchurch Working Men's Club are rehearsing the drama of Gilded Youth." Captain Edwin wired at 1.19 p.m. yesterday ; " North to east and south-east gale, with heavy rain, and glass falling. Mrs. Ross, of Waipu, a sister of Mrs. H. F. Anderson, and daughter of the late Rev. Norman McLeod, died on the 26th of last month. , _ T r , The Otaki subscribers to the New Zealand penny dinner fund have sent to England £25 for the poorest school children in London. The match with the English footballers resulted in a loss of £27 14s to the Taranaki guarantors, and there's been a little squabble at the squaring up. At a Lacrosse match in Christchurch lately between " England and the Colonies," the English team were beaten by three goals to two. The Minister of Lands has authorised the Auckland Commissioner of Crown Lands to spend £1600 on road works for the benefit of Auckland special Peltiers. It seems tho petition of Gilbert Rock, of Dunedin, for protection to local literatuie, was a hoax, wh'.ch was taken in all seriou. - ness by the House. Two boys—named Joseph Wilson, aged 14 years, and Joseph Cummings, aged l.'i years—have run away from the Kohimrramara Industrial School, and are still at lar^e. There was nothing special at any of tie rinks last evening. There were fair attendances, but the blustering and threatenii g weather had tended to thin the attendance at all of them. The local option poll in the licensing district of Newton, held on Wednesday, resulted as follows :—Publicans' licenses : For an increase, 3; against, S4. New Zealand wine licenses : For an increase, 3 ; against, 83. The prizes for carbine shooting given to the "A" Battery of Artillery by Mr. M. Gallagher have been presented as follows : —Gunner J. D. Webster, Ist prize Gunner Bottrill, 2nd ; Gunner Kearsley, 3rd ; Henderson, 4th; Gunner Doughty, sth; Gunner Ward, 6th. , Mr. Coleman Philips has read a paper on " The Wairarapa Rabbit Disease," in which he quoted Sir James Hector as saying thas the North American Continent was kept clear of rabbits by this disease, which swept; them off by millions. It is the immature of a kind of tapeworm. The Christchurch Telegraph complains of the dirty bank notes in circulation, and says: —" More filthy-looking things than some of these notes are, it is impossible to conceive. It is difficult not to see in many of the bank notes in circulation a medium for disseminating disease of all kinds."