TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9307, 9 March 1889, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The Wellington Club give a 'farewell dinner to the Governor this evening. It is proposed to hold an inter-provincial draughts match in connection with Dunedin Exhibition. The Defence Minister has promised £200 to Otago Volunteers for the purpoee of an Easter encampment. The Chelmsford lefb Opotiki for Auck. land at, J0.30 a.m. yesterday. The Permanent Artillery do not return this trip. Mr. E. W. Mills has been elected Chairman, and Mr. D. T. Stuart Vice-Chairman of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Bernard Sloane Lawson, late of the s.s. Tongariro, has been selected from five candidates to be resident surgeon of Timaru Hospital. A leading chief of the Ureweras has jusb arrived at Opotiki, and reports all quiefc among his tribe. They will take no further action re Te Kooti. At Dunedin R. M. Court the action Havord v. Sutherland was dismissed. It was for recovery of £200 damages for alleged assault by defendant (a schoolmaster) on the daughter of plaintiff. The land revenue up to tho end of December was better than for the four years previous, and as several large blocks will be ' sold this month, the Department expect tv have a very good record to show for th, year. The Canterbury Acclimatisation Society yesterday fixed the dates for opening and closing the shooting season as follows :— Native game, March 30th to June 30th; pheasants and quail, May Ist to June 3Qfch; haree, March 30th to July 31st. A meeting of consignees at Christchurch yesterday passed resolutions in favour oi the work of Customs examiners being done there instead of ab Lyfctelton, reduction of railway rates between the two places, and calling the attention of the Government to the arbitrary measures adopted in respecb of debateable questions respecting interpre" tation. * Customs Tariff.