NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9324, 29 March 1889, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Premier visits the West Coast next ' W The Tauranga settlers don't know what to do with then" fruit. The new volunteer dress regulations appear in this week's Gazette. A sitting of the Court of Appeal will be held in Wellington on May 6. Mr. F. Woollams has had a paralytic stroke, affecting his left arm and side. A fanner in Canterbury reckons the profits on his grain crops this season to be £•25,000 The Westport negotiations for the settlement of the Cape Foul wind labour dispute are broken oil". The .Jubilee Singers left yesterday for a short, tour to Cambridge, Te Aroha, and the Thames. The Town Clerk of Newmarket is about to issue a number of summonses for nonpayment of rates. Shag Point mine, Otago, was sold yesterday, as a going concern, for £500, to John Da vies, as agent. Father Egan, on retiring from the temporary charge at Opotiki, was presented with an address and a purse of money. The matron of the Upper Refuge desires to thank Mr. McArthur, of Remuera, for gift of apples for tile use of the inmates. The Sydenham British-Israel Association have been discussing the cause which led to the separation of the kingdoms of Jadah and Israel. A meeting of the creditors of H. M. Bradbury was held yesterday at the Otiicial Assignee's office, but the proceedings were no' made public. An old man named J. O'Dea was found dead in a field near his residence at Ross, Otairo, yesterday. He had been in a feeble condition for pome time.

W. Lancaster, charged with forging a promissory note for ; 10 on the Colonial Bank in "Mrs. Mullens' name, has been arrested at Christchurch. We understand that it is the intention of the liquidators of the Union Sash and Door Company to pay a first dividend of l'2s fid per share on' the 17th proximo. The Rev. C. Melville Pym, well-known by many in Auckland, died at his rectory Cherry Burton, on the '27th January. He conducted evangelistic services here for some time.

Mr. J. C. Plaisted, for many years accountant of the Colonial Bank at Palmerston, Otago, and afterwards manager at Wyndham, died a few days ago of valvular disease of the heart.

In reply to "Inquirer," who wants to knew how to proceed in the registration of a trade mark for New Zealand, we would advise him to have the clerical work done by his solicitor. "There were three prisoners in the lock-up last evening, namely, a man named McWilliams for larceny, Margaret Bedford for obscene language to William George Garrard, and a man for drunkenness. At a meeting of the Wellington Equitable Investment and Building Society, the committee reported against taking advantage of the Mortgage Debentures Act, and the shareholders accepted the report. The Opotiki Herald says:—" We are credibly informed that Te Kooti has announced to his men that it is still his intention to visit Poverty Bay, but lie only intends to take from 15 to -0 followers with him."

Business on the sharemarket yesterday wis slightly more active than on Wednesday, but the only stocks operated upon were Saxons, Trentons, New Moanataiaris, and Cambrias. Several parcels of these changed hands at, prices a shade lower than those quoted the previous day. A man named Frederick Pegler was arrested at Christ-church yesterday, charged with violently demanding various sums of money from Philip Ernest, who, he alleges, L-ommitted adultery with Pegler's wife. Accused had purchased a revolver and used it in a threatening manner. The Ashley County (Canterbury) Cricket team played against the Phoenix Club, Dunedin, yesterday, and won. In the first innings Ashley County scored 59 ; Phtenix, 44. Ashley wer2 all out for 53 in the second innings, and Phuenix had two wickets down for 31 when time was called.

Daring the hearing* of an action in the Dunedm Supreme Court for impounding cattle, it was mentioned that a person Could recover for actual damage done by cattle on unfenced land, but he could not impound ; but in Canterbury the reverse was the case, as there a person could impound cattle that strayed on unfenced land, but could not recover damage.