NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9083, 18 June 1888, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

■ New 863 story. ~ ~ , The Melbourne Exhibition bids fair to be t ereat success. An attempt is being made to establish a rolapfik Society in Sydney. Mr. Justice Gwynne, of Adelaide, who died recently, was full cousin to General Gordon. .„'.,. At the Salvation Army Barracks yesterday, Colonel and Mrs. Taylor, of India, delivered addresses. The vacancy in the Hansard staff has been filled up by the appointment of Mr. J. M. Geddis, of Auckland. The real property boom in Melbourne continues active, and a frontage to Flinderslane was recently sold for about £300 per foot. It i* proposed to shortly hold a loan exhibition of musical instruments, teaching appliance, musical curios, etc-, in Melbourne. A local butcher has been boycotted by the Port Adelaide working men on account of ' hi? having obtained his vegetables from a Chinese hawker. Mr. Wybert Reeve delivered a lecture on "The Pulpit and Stage." in the Unitarian Church at Adelaide recently. There was a crowded audience. The tin mines in the northern territory of South Australia are said to be doing well, and it is expected that a large tinfieid will be opened up there. Amongst the World's " Many Happy Keturns of the Day," appears the name of Sir George Grey, who celebrated his 76th birthday en May 9. " The Death Ship," a new and thrilling sea story, by the author of " The Wreck of the Grosvenor,'* will be commenced in Wednesday's Herald.

William' Ernest Elton, who was connected with Mr. Bland Holt's dramatic company, died on the steamer Burwah. The cause of death was heart disease.

The will of the late Henry Miller, of Victoria, has been proved : the real estate beinsr sworn under £728,714, and the personal property at £571.495. An experiment is to be made in Melbourne with electric street lighting. _ It it is found to be a success the system will be extended throughout the city. A subscription list has been started in Adelaide for the relief of sufferers by the Chinese floods, and £100 has been raised by the Chinamen of Adelaide alone. A 23 ton breech-loading gun, specially designed for South Australia by Sir William Armstrong's firm, has arrived at Adelaide, and will be placed in the Glenelg battery. The Victorian revenue for May amounted to £637,096, as against £517,459 for .the same month in 1887. It is expected that the returns will show a surplus of £500,000 on June SO.

Thursday Island is sending, amongst other things, a splendid trophy of 6 tons of pearl-hell to the Melbourne Exhibition. Seven hundred pounds worth of pearls will iL-o be exhibited in one group. Paitor George Muller preached yesterday morning in St. Luke's Presbyterian Church, Remuera, to a large congregation. In the evening at the City Hail he again delivered a deeply interesting discourse.on The Life of Elijah "' to a large audience. The petition of "Mr. John Flatt to the House of Representatives was stated to have been signed by him as "Gardener at Auckland Government House and Dunedin." It should have been "Gardener at Auckland Government House and Domain.''

The Australian Times and Anglo-New Zealander of May II says :—" Bishop Sutter, of New Zealand, is at Montreal for the purpose of trying to arrange with the Canadian Pacific Company to establish a line of mail steamers from Vancouver's Island to Australia and New Zealand."

' The Eureka skating rink wa.« well filial on Saturday evening. On next Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday there are to be mile races in heat*, the final i>;infr run on Friday night. Ladies and gerrdemen will both compete. On July 4th r.here is to be a fancy dress carnival, when no one will be allowed on the floor except in fancy dress. There are also to be a milo race in costume, and a polo match in costume. The Onehunga Public Library seems to be in a very Tsad financial position, and quite recently it appeared that the institution would be closed, a course which many supporters were adverse to. On Thursday evening last the Committee of Management met to endeavour to devise some means out of the difficulty, and it was resolved, " That a charge of 6d per month be made for the use of the reading-room, subscribers to the library and stranger? to be admitted free," it being shown that a large number of resident* availed themselves of the privileges of the reading-room without contributing in any way to the funds.