NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9108, 17 July 1888, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Jonathan Roberts is still at large. A theatre is about to be built in Feilding. . ' There is a small exodus of Christchureh * citizens to the Melbourne Exhibition. !, ; ,; Sir George Grey is . mad on industrial training in primary schools, so says a contemporary. A man in Masterton broke a lamp to ob«tain lodging and food, and was accommof dated, with 14 days. , , ,-, r There were but two cases of drunkenness ' and the youth BasilHerdson for larceny in | the police station last evening. "Wise Words" is the title given by a . Southern paper to an extract from the New Zealand Herald on the craze for education. '"'>i •••'".•""

': Notwithstanding the much spoken of hard times, the building operations all ovei Wellington are going ahead 'with remark able vigour. .

The rivers of Central Otago are very low list now, and dredging operations, especiilly on the Molyneux, are being actively, pushed ahead. Members complain of the cost of answer-. ing telegrams. One received no less than; 353 on the tariff question, all of which he was expected to answer. j A movement is on foot, says a Southern: paper, to have the printing done in the districts where it is required, instead of at the Government printing office. A. selector near Burrows, New South v Wales, named James Murray, died on the Ist instant from the effects of drinking carbolic acid in mistake for rum.

A southern paper referring to the Welman dredge says : —" We await with feverish anxiety the result of a week or two's work, as on the result rests mainly the prosperity of the district." ;

At the meeting of the Savage Club last «evening it was announced by Mr. Keep, i who presided, that Sir Frederick Whitaker had intimated his willingness to become president of the club. *" . . Flax cutting at Rahotu would appear to ■■ be a lucrative employment. It is said that . two lads a week or two ago cut no less than 36 tons in the week, for which they received 9s per ton, or £8 each. As showing the severity of the frost in the South lately, the water in the graving f dock at Port Chalmers was completely covered with a thin coating of ice. This, says a Dunedin paper, has never occurred before. ' " '""*■

A lost; child was reported at the police station last evening. , He is named Percy "West, is three years old, and 'resides in Surrey-street, Surrey Hills. The child was dressed in blue jersey, with Tam-o'-Shanter of the same material. "" You are no stevedore: you cannot stow 4 a ship." For using these slanderous words regarding a master stevedore at Lyttelton, a Christchurch shipping clerk has been ' adjudged to pay £40 by way of solatium. .He was asked for £200. , ' , « One of the oldest settlers in the Whanga- ' rei district, Mr. R. Reyburn, was a 5 passenger from London in the Rimutaka, ; arid came up -by s - the Rotorua yesterday. Mr. Reyburn has" been in England for: the last eight years, but now intends to return for good to Whangarei. . The following is the state of Her Majesty's prison, Auckland, for the week ending July 14th, 1888 -.—Awaiting trial, 6 males; boys, ] 4; penal servitude, 43 males, 3 females ; hard labour, 109 males,, 25 females imprisonment, 1 male; default of bail, 11 males, 1 : female ; received during the week, 14 males,! -X female; discharged, 17 males, 2 females; ; total in prison ; 174 males, 29 females. , '