NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9463, 6 September 1889, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

tTHEBBwere three prisoners in the lock-up tlast night, all for drunkenness . A plain and fancy dross ball will bo held #n the-Choral Hall on fcbo 14th insfc. The MostertOQ Agricultural Association llofcted prizes amounting to nearly £300 ion Wednesday. The special list includes a hraluabdo- cup from Mr. Kohn, of Wolling'ton. *, The Board of Education are now giving Notice of the Michaelmas holidays, and the ■week beginning Monday, the 30th instant, Si-ill bo observed as those holidays by the Schools of Class L V. The jurors summoned for Monday, the fbtb instant, are notified by the Sheriff by Jodvcrtiseinenb elsewhere, that their attendbanco at the Supreme Court will not be required on that date. Mr. Carpenter has resigned the office of tMayorof the Thames, owing to his appoiubBienb as Town Clerk. It is intended to npnarab a successor from amongst the Council tors at its next meeting. Mr. John Gibbons, an old Thames resident, has been selected from a largo number of applicants to till the position of knanmrer, at Rangitikei, of Fisher Bros.' Slax-tmll, one of the largest of its kind in tathe colony. We are glad {to learn that the Rev. W. *Fcbba, who has been residing for tho last low clays at tho Lake Takiipuna Hotel, is touch improved in health, and is expected to take part in the services at St. Matthew's next Sunday morning. Building operations nto the new Greyhound Hotel are being rapidly pushed on by the contractor, Mr. Newborn. The bricklayers are starting on the second Btorey, and as many men are being employed as can be judiciously utilised. The Otago University Council have got out of the difficulty with regard to the SBarewood run and Maaterion reserve, /which have been rushed by prospectors, by cancelling the licences of the lessees over 2000 acres and giving them grazing rights. . The following intimation* are from •Lloyd's Weekly of July "JI :—William Carr, abouti'twelve years ago left for Is aw Zealand, and last wrote" fromWaltbam; his mother 1$ anxious. John Thomas Contts left Mile-end in lS<i> for Lyttclton, Canterbury* N.Z.; his daughter Agnes writes. ' At a meeting of' the fruit growers of Canterbury, yesterday, there were received analytical reports on Keen's and Redwood's Ecale blight specifics from Professors Bickerlon and Wilkinson and K- \V. Faraday, which showed that the scale was unaffected jjy the tests made by them in July. It is not expected that the Poudrette Works at Avondale will be in operation before the early part of next month. The machinery is not all set up yet; and it is understood matters aro postponed till the season is more advanced, so that the {irepared material may be more readily dried. . The officers of joint stock companies and gold mining companies are required, by the loth of October next, to; furnish statements of property belonging to such companies to the Property Tax Department in Wellington, in accordance with the provisions of the Act.