NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9450, 22 August 1889, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

■The Governor returned to Wellington yesterday. Major-General Edwards is not to visit QSew Zealand. The poultry, bird, and dog - show, at Wanganni, promises to bo a great success. George Hayward, aged 62, fell dead while •picking stones in a paddock near Templeton, Canterbury. It is believed that the closing of .17 hotels In Geelong, Victoria, will cost the Government £30, (XX). The Orchestral Society gave a very successful concert in St.George's Hall, Thames, yesterday evening. Mr. E." J. Dameu, of West Maitlatul, has accepted the position of tutor to the young Princes of Brazil. In Melbourne burglaries arc now of frequent occurrence. The other morning the Haymarket Hotel was ransacked. It is understood that there are still £150,000 worth of unsold produce in Oamaru district awaiting a market. A carman who knocked a child down in a Sydney street while driving, was ordered to pay £10 fine and medical expenses. Mr. Oscar Meyer has been appointed to represent New South Wales at the New Zealand Exhibition, at a salary of £700 per

year. The students who attended the lectures of the late Professor Andrew, of Melbourne, inteud erecting a memorial tablet to his memory. There is no change in the condition of Mr. John Lamb, who, stated in yesterday's issue, has been seized with an attack of paralysis. The steamer Lawrence has been purchased in Sydney on behalf of the Jilokihinui Coal Company for tho WellingtonMokihinui trade. At Nelson, yesterday, Sommerville, alias Perry, alias Smith, previously convicted at Auckland, was sentenced to six months' bard labour for larceny. At the Victorian, Poultry and Dog Society's Show the takings amounted to about £1000 for the gate money and commissions, irrespective of fees. A tender has been accepted for the Hurnnui traffic bridge (Canterbury) for £2796 5s 3d. Mr. J. W. Thomas, Amberley, is the successful tenderer. The usual Weekly meeting of the Burns' Club has been postponed, in order to make •way for "A Nicht wi' Burns," at the Beresford-street Hall, this evening. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 12.55 p.m. yesterday as follows : " N. to E. and S.W. gale within the next twelve hours, with heavy rain, and glass will further fall." Joseph Williamson, coach proprietor and driver, was fined £2 at Christchurrh yesterday for cruelty by over-driving a horse till it dropped dead in the street, exhausted. The townships of Otahuhu and Onehunga are to be enlivened by a visit frein Lev ere and Moore's Minstrels. They open at Otahuhu to-morrow night, find on Saturday at Onehunga. The Rev. E. H. Gulliver lectures to-night' at the Athena-urn, on a subject which should attract a good attendance, namely, " The Influence, Moral and Immoral, of our Colonial Surroundings." At the Wanganui Police Court, yesterday, three settlers, charged at the; instance of the sheep inspector with exposing lousy sheep for sale, pleaded guilty, and were each fined 30s, and 7s costs.

Feeling reference to the recent boat accident at the Heads was made yesterday at a meeting' of the Wellington Harbour Board, and a resolution of sympathy with the relatives of the deceased was carried.

An opinion given by the New South Wales Attorney-General is adverse to the adoption of by-laws for the lending out of books from the Sydney Free Library purchased out of funds granted by he Government.

The native team of footballers who are to play the Auckland "reps." on Saturday are expected to arrive early to-day at the Manukau, by the s.s. Wanaka, and will be met by a number of the local officials and players. At the annual meeting of the CnrUtcbrcxch Poultry Society the report showed that a profit of nearly £50 bad accrued from the Show recently held in the Rink. Tbe number of birds actually exhibited then was 743.

A lecture on " George Ticknor, of Boston, and Robert Dick, of Thurso," will be delivered by Mr. R. Campbell, in connection with the Devonport Mutual Improvement Society, this evening, in the Council Chambers, Devon port. A daring robbery was committed on the ship Marabout, lying at the cargo wharf, at .Newcastle. During the absence of the captain his stateroom was entered, and a cash-box containing £15 and the ship's papers were stolen.

We have received from Sir William Fox a. letter on the present position of the prohibition question in America in explanation of the statements we published yesterday from an American papers. We shall publish Sir William's letter to-morrow.

It has been agreed in Sydney to form a league the object of which is to secure the legislative prohibition of the manufacture, importation, and sale in New South Wales of all alcoholic liquors by the election to Parliament of known liquor prohibitionists. A resident of the Deniliquin district has invented an ingenious piece of mechanism for the instantaneous attachment and detachment of horses to and from vehicles. The value of the invention is estimated by the fortunate possessor of it at no less a bum than £36,W0 a year. A Children's Home has been opened at, Wanganui. The house has been built by Mr. J. Smith, a resident, at a cost of £150, and will be rent-free for three years, at the end of which period it will be handed over to the trustees for half the cost. There is accommodation for 100 children. At a meeting of the Dunedin Hospital Trustees, it was decided to defer doing anything in the matter of erecting a Nurses' Home and ward for diseases of women, until the money collected had been finally handed over, as had been arranged at a conference with the subscribers' committee.

The only prisoner in the lock-up last evening was Margaret Brew (on warrant), charged with using insulting language. It appeared that the accused was summoned, but did not appear at the Police Court. The Magistrate issued a warrant, and the result was her arrest as already stated.

|3allarafc has furnished the latest musical prodigy. Her name is Miss Maud Wilson. She is aged 10, and is the daughter of Mr. James Wilson, a gentleman of independent means. The little |*irl has shown so much musical talent that nor faJier has been advised to send her to the Berlin Conservatorium.

It is reported that when Princess Louise of Wales received the Queen's formal consent to her marriage, she threw her arms round her Royal grandmother's neck, and said, " Oh, I'm so glad you've let me marry Fife ; we've loved one another for over so long ; and, besides, I didn't want to be made to marry one of those poor German princes."

In regard to interruptions from the Ministerial benches in the House of Representatives during debate, the Catholic Times has the following "It is nob unamusing to observe that when Sir Harry is himself speaking, he is quick to note and comment upon any whisper that he hears. 'I cannot, sir,' he wailed the other day, ' I cannot make myself heard, owing to the murmur going round the House!' Sir Harry would possibly be speechless did he bear the murmur going round the country."