NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9091, 27 June 1888, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Auckland Savage Club'a next meeting will be on Saturday next, June 30. A petition of insolvency has been filed by Henare Tikitini, of Puniu, near Kihikihi. There were two cases of drunkenness in the lock-up last night, Michael Breen and Hugh Gibbans. The missing Mrs. Best, of Pukekohe, has been found. She had cast in her lot with the Salvationists.

No information has yet been received as to the appointment of a director for the Christchurch Museum. Sonne spelling and geographical bees were held lately in Wanganui, competitors in the latter having to answer ten questions on New Zealand geography. A pig race took place recently at an Oaraaru skating rink. The local paper says the scene that ensued was truly disgusting and a disgrace to humanity. The Salvation Army hold an "Indian meeting " in the barracks this evening at a quarter to eight. It will be led by " Colonel" and Mrs. Taylor in Indian costume. The Os,s Company in Christchurch have reduced the price of the city lamps after July 1, to £5 per annum. Auckland is paying £7 3s 4d, or nearly 50 per cent, additional.

Mr. Fulton's conviction is that the Premier is too prone to listen to the views put forward by certain newspapers in the large centres, and to imagine them to express public opinion. The following is from Lloyd's Weekly of May 20: —George and Ellen Cottrell were last heard of IS months ago, when they were residing in Upper Queen-street, Auckland. Their mother is anxious about them.

A man named John Coffey died yesterday morning at the Lunatic Asylum. An inquest was held yesterday afternoon at three o'clock, before Dr. Philson, coroner, when a verdict of "died from natural causes" was returned.

The Rangitikei Advocate notifies that it will devote all the half-crowns received for birth, marriage, and death advertisements towards the" East London food mission. Each half-crown will supply a meal to GO starving people. The Wei man dredger on the Molyneaux is now in working order, and great things are expected from it. On a trial being made, a stream of water and gravel was upraised that completely bewildered those who were fortunate enough to be present. Among he passengers by the Rotomahana word Mr. J. L. Wilson, of the New Zealand Herald, who returned from a trip to Australia, and Mr. C. V. Houghton, manage] of the New Zealand Shipping Company, who has come back trom a business trip to the South. The Hawke's Bay Herald says:—"The mass of shingle thrown up by the sea at the root of the breakwater is enormous, thousands of tons lying there in an immense heap. The force of the waves also threw up quantities of the large boulders put down as an apron." The local agents for the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company have received advice that Madame Adelina I'atti and party have secured passages in the lonic from Rio to London. The lonic sails from Lvttelton on 21st July, and from Rio about 11th August, being due in London on 31st. The roads from the Narrow Neck and Fort Takapuna, which were recently in a bad state, are now being repaired. The (government have contributed £15 for that ooject. The Defence Department intend in addition to put on prison labour to repair that portion damaged recently by the carting of heavy defence appliances. The chairman of the Brunnerton Licensing Bench recently opened proceedings with a "little prayer." He invoked a blessing upon his fellow Commissioners, upon the clerk, the police, the widow whose case was to be heard, aye, upon the two members of the legal profession who were present. The audience were "convulsed with laughter." The following is the state of Her Majesty's prison, Auckland, for the week ending June 23rd, lSSii :—On remand, 6 males ; awaiting trial, 1 male ; boys, 4; penal servitude, 43 males, 3 females ; hard labour, 116 males, 24 females ; imprisonment, 1 male ; default of bail, 13 males, 1 female; debtors, 1 male; received during the week, 16 males, 4 females ; discharged, 14 males, 3 females ; total in prison : ISS males, 28 females.