NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9369, 20 May 1889, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The sum of £1192 has been received by the Brisbane central committee towards the Parnell indemnity fund. Experts agree that it is almost impossible that the recent fire at the Bijou Theatre, Melbourne, can have been caused by the electric lighting apparatus. The past year's operations of the Melbourne Harbour Trust show that the cash receipts amounted to upwards of £450,000, an increase of £39,000 upon the receipts for the previous year. After having had a few words with her husband, the wife of a watchmaker at Lismore, New South Wales, named Osborne, is reported to have jumped out of bed, and committed suicide by cutting her throat with a razor.

Trade between Australia and Japan will probably be opened, Mr. Murdoch, late of the Brisbane Grammar School, having been commissioned to report on the lines of Japanese produce likely to suit Australian tastes.

The Sydney Morning Herald states that Mrs. Lawson and those interested in the will of the late Mr. Lawson, of Pathamy station, South Australia, have begun an fiction against the National Bank for the recovery of £14,600. It is reported that Canon B. Wilberforce is about to undertake a temperance lecturing tour in the colonies. His visit will be in response to the request of the New Zealand Temperance Alliance and other organisations. We regret to learn that the Rev. Father Kehoe, of Gisborne, is ill. He is to come to Auckland for the benefit of his health, and will probably arrive to-day. The Rev. Father Hayes has gone to take his place at Gisborne during his absence. The whole of the plant of the Onslow Gold Company will, we are informed by the secretary, Mr. Jesse Percival, be erected shortly at the works, Grabamstown. The remainder of the Watson-Denny pans are expected to arrive by an early steamer from Australia.

There were seven persons in the lock-up last evening on charges of drunkenness : and Henry Spayne and Henry MacMahon are charged with a breach of the Shipping Act, IS-S7, by travelling from Sydney to Auckland on board the steamship Zealandia without paying their passage money. The application of a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales for admission as a solicitor in the Supreme Court of Queensland has been refused because the Chief Justice of that colony has been tcld by the Chief Justice of New South Wales that Queensland solicitors will not be admitted to practice in New South Wales. Three members of the Salvation Army have been sent to prison by the Sandgate, Queensland, Bench, for having refused to pay a fine of £3 and costs for playing musical instruments in the streets. The decision of the Bench in eight other similar cases was adjourned. The municipal authorities offered to withdraw all the cases If the Salvationists gave a guarantee only to march through the streets on Saturdays and Sundays.