NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9095, 2 July 1888, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Theeb are now sixty-two Bills on the • order paper of Parliament. The Onehunga Rink still continues to draw Is.rge crowds nightly. The (jxports of coal frcm Greymouth last week amounted to 3771 tons. The amount paid to the holders of the New Zealand Cross is £180 a-year. - ■ A very heavy thunderstorm passed over Greymouth early yesterday morning. It is stated by a St. Petersburg correspondent that General Boulanger is a natural son of Napoleon 111. Miss Malcolm, formerly of Auckland, is lecturing in Wellington under the auspices of tho Evangelisation Society. Frank Ryan, the man wiio was attacked by ervßipelas after having a tooth pulled on the Golden Chariot, is in a fair way to recovery,. The encroachment of the sea on the railway near the New Plymouth station is so great that it has been advisable to shift the station. Pigeon-shooting this season in the Hunterville (Rangitikei) district is affording excellent sport, as the bush i 3 said to be literally swarming with them in parts. Them were five arrests for drunkenness on Saturday and yesterday. The names of the offenders are—Robert Sargeanb, Elizabeth Best, Sarah Clarke, Henry Clarke, and Bachael Vollan. The man Patterson, who was injured in Karangahape Road on Wednesday night by collision with a cab while on horseback, bus

been unconscious J most ever sines., end as*. only spoken a few words. A Napier paper says :—" Wk-*t a spit;; • did climate Napier possesses mr» bo judg-v.-d from the fact that in Auckla'-i and Wellington, during May it rained o/i wunty and eighteen days respectively.' A correspondent of a Dune; in paper writes, complaining of the s^."ead r>f opiumsmoking among the Europeans ai ehat city —a habit eag-31-ly encor.i ? .ed by the Chinese opium sellers, who jffer novices free smokes. At P.almerston on Saturday a man named Charles Henry, formerly in business as saddlet at .Feilding, and who recently filed a petition of bankruptcy, was arrested, as It was alleged he was about to leave the colony. The committee of tho Auckland Financial

Association have inserted an advertisement

in another column calling a meeting for half-past nine this morning at 316, Victoria Arcade. A full attendance is requested, as the business is of great importance. The Hawke's Bay Herald says:—"The greater portion of the Victorian ' jam , now being retailed in Napier is absolute rubbish, and some of the New Zealand brands are as

bad. The major portion of the stuff offered under the name jam ought to be called 'potted pumpkin." , - The effects of Mr. Dudley Eyre, the Wangnnui levanter, were submitted to auction the other day in presence of a considerable crowd. One of his creditors consoled himself by securing, for a trifle, a sample of the scripture texte with which the levanter'f? office mantel wa:s adorned.

It is stated that the Earl of Seafield will will shortly leave for Scotland to ' take , possession of his family estates. I His family will not accompany him; and as he contemplates taking up his residence permanently in North Otago, a handsome mansion will be erected during his absence. The following from a Southern paper refers to Sir. George Grey's recent visit to Grcwiouth:--Scone, Gray town. Toady (looVitor) :. ic .'i am perry you have to hurry off so ijarly, S'J? George! 1 could have go* one of the officials, who is a tenant of mine, to delay the train a little." Sir George : *" Oh ! I Suppose his rent is in arrear." " It will be seen by our Wellington news," says the Hawke's Bay Herald, " that a commission to examine the damage done to the . Napier breakwater is mooted, to report as * to whether it is worth while to continue the •work. The trouble may all be saved, as the . people of this province have the power by ■ law and the will by nature to decide that ; C ! .l3stion for themselves." .»,•,;