NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9445, 16 August 1889, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

H.M.S. Ramiu.kr has reached Port Darwin. A Chinese leper has been found in a revolting condition near Perth. The Sudest goldfield, in New Guinea, is reported to have been worked out. . An immense silver-bearing lode is reported to have been discovered at Castlerag. . Typhoid is reported to have appeared in Xhinedin ; but there arc not any dangerous cases. A syndicate has been registered in London with the object of exploring British Guinea. The rate for freight to Southern ports per the s.s. Hauroto is announced at 5s per ton ! What next? The whole of the debentures of the Land Company of Australasia placed on the London market has been subscribed. Mr. Francis William Stokes, formerly a membor of the South Australian House of Assembly, has died in England. The proposed alterations in the Victorian tariff are viewed with extreme dissatisfaction by the business men of South Australia. Captain Edwin advised at 3.15 p.m. yesterday ; —"Heavy gale as wired yesterday, with "very cold weather, and glass will rise." By the s.s. Waihora, Messrs. J. C. Firth and J. H. WitJieford left Auckland yesterday for Lyttelton and Wellington respectively. During the past four weeks 21S cases of diphtheria have occurred in Victoria, 7- of which were fatal. Of typhoid coses there were 144, of which '24 were fatal. Mr. R. T. Chatfield, who some time ago was appointed vice-consul at Samoa by Colonel de Coetlogon, British Consul, has, it is reported, been removed from the position. There is now, in the Free Library, Sydney, a total collection of 82,343 volumes. Of these, 55,504 are in the reference branch, 23,921 in the lending branch, and "291S in country libraries. Sir William Macgregor, in bis researches in New Guinea, is said to have collected a large number of rare, and in some cases hitherto unknown botanical, entomological and other specimens. The total amount of aid which the Sydney National Art Gallery has received from the Government since its establishment in 3576, is £64,175. Tho number of visitors daring ISSS was 195.000. The oranges, citrons, <!tc,, from Chnmberlin's Island, referred to in yesterday's issue, are being exhibited in the show window of Mr. Ellis, bookseller, not Mr. Wayte, as inadvertently stated yesterday. Mr. David Christie Murray, the novelist, was a passenger for Melbourne by the steamer Aorangi. He is accompanied by Mr. James McMahon as business manager. Mr. Murray's stay in the colonies is limited to three weeks. Two claims of 60 acres each have been pegged out on the Barwood Estate, near jNenthorn, and a company is being formed to work them. The land is the property of the University Council, which has granted protection licenses. The topic of the present week in social circles has been the approaching ball to be given in the Choral Hall this eveniug iu connection with the St. George's Rowing Club. The committee have been most energetic in their endeavours to make this the dance of t-he season., and the affair promises to be a groat success.