NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9116, 26 July 1888, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

It is said that the Mayor of Dunedin is likely to be nominated for a second term. Our Governor, says a contemporary, "is a fine specimen of the gubernatorial -species." A Blenheim bankrupt who filed three years ago has come in for a legacy, and the 1 Assignee has now paid the creditors 20s in • the £. .

• The Dunedin novel "Colonists" is said to be by Mr. Charles Umbers, of the Telegraph Office, "Gilbert Rock" being a norn de plume. ■ The Wellington Post says the success achieved by the Wellington Operatic Society in their presentation of "lolahthe" Is quite unprecedented. v.A Southern paper complains that Ofcago money is being invested in the Thames, instead of the Otago goldfields, which latter are languishing for want of support. The discovery of the 360z. nugget at Longwood has, says a Southern paper, infused fresh life into all the diggers about, and given the inhabitants fresh hope. The action of the Union Steamship Company in raising the freight on horses for Melbourne by £1 per head, will, according to a Southland shipper, prove prohibitive. A correspondent of a Southern paper fears that the operations of the Kauri Company will be injurious to the colony by destroying the forests " for mere commercial profit." The directors of the Wyndham (Southland) Dairy Factory Company have received advice that a shipment of 10 tons of cheese has brought a very satisfactory price in London. Three children — William, Nelly, and Richard Sherrett, seven, four, and three years of age respectively— from their home in Mechanics' Bay yesterday, and have been since missing. , " Too Long," a Chinese vendor of vegetables in Masterton, announces by advertisement that he has determined to pay a visit to his relations in China, and that he

will be absent about fifteen months.

The Post says a well-known Wellington firm of land agents Have received instructions to purchase £50,000 worth of rentproducing properties in the business part of - the city, and advertise for offers from owners. • The Feilding dairy farmers ridicule the idea of the Government sending round " an expert" to teach them how to make butter and cheese. "They are wondering if the State will send 'an expert' to teach the hens to lay double-yolked eggs." Crowds of Wanganui people have been going down to the Heads to see a 50 foot whale, which has been stranded on the south spit. Parts of the body had _ been _ eaten by sharks. The body was " picked all ever by the visitors for barnacles and pieces of skin and whalebone as relics. • On the 16th inst. a benefit concert was given to the Greenwood family, in the Protestant Hall, Sydney, a fairly numerous audience being present. Several well-known vocalists assisted, and the press notices were more favourable, one paper saying, " Taken throughout, the concert was most, successful" . A concert was given last evening in the *' Oddfellows' Hall by the pupils under the' tuition of Miss Love. About 200 of the. friends of the pupils assembled to judge of the progress made by those under her care, and were delighted extremely by the rendition of the various items on the programme. Miss Love received a well-merited compliment for the proficiency of her pupils, which is indeed a flattering encomium to her ability as a competent teacher.