NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9469, 13 September 1889, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The resignation of Lieutenant 'Lodder, ,Uew Zealand Torpedo Corp?, is gazetted. 16 is announced in Christchurch that th© official gazette oi the Salvation Array is to be enlarged. Mr. J. M. Alexander has been appointed chairman of the Board of Directors of the Moanataiari Company. Mr. Andrews, the Registrar-General of South Australia, retires with one .sir's salary and ft retiring allowance of £3000. Mr. E. Murphy, M.L.A., who has been clewed Mavor of BallanU Hast, has expended more than £11,000 in mining in the district- . . From a private telegram received in 'Auckland yesterday, we learn that Mr. D. M. Luckic'was in a fair way of recovering from hid i tin ess. The meeting of the Auckland University College Debating Society, which should have taken place to-night, has been unavoidably postponed. Captain Edwin at 4.13 p.m. yesterday, advised —North-east to north and west pale within 12 hours. Indication? of rain. Glass will fall soon. Mr. P. K. McCaughan sold recently in Melbourne his '*250 shares in the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Limited, at £50 per share, or a total of £112,500. Marv Kyle, charged at Napier with child "murder, was to.) ill to appear yesterday, ( uk! was remanded till Monday. The inuuest lias been adjourned to the same day. " l>r. Saumarez Smith, the Bishop-elect of Sydney, and Primate ot Australia, will be consecrated in Canterbury Cathedral on November 1, and leaves England for Sydney in February next. There were in the lock last night, two prisoners. Th© first-, George Stevens, on a charge of vagrancy, and the second, Eliza Brady, arretted (on warrant) for assaulting Amelia Barrett. During the eight months of the present year 44 petitions in bankruptcy have been tiled before the Offic-al Assignee at Wellington. For the suns period of last year the number of bankruptcies was 51. At the last meeting of the Sydenham British Israel Association, the subject discussed was " Will British Israelism, when generally received, prove an unanswerable argument for the truth of Holy Scripture." Very satisfactory {in.igre.ss i« being made with the erection of the Nurses Home, adjacent to the District Hospital. The laying out of the grounds round these institutions, and planting them with ornamental shrubs, also greatly beautify the Hospital reserve. The Kara ape contingent of the Auckland Fire Brigade have prevented their late foreman, now Superintendent Fenton, of the Newton Fire Brigade, with a splendid album of New Zealand ferns and a silver pendant, in the shape of a fireman's helmet. Of the several Licensing Committees under Mr. Seaman's clerkship, viz., Archhill, Avomlale, Epsom, Takapuna, \\ aikoiniti, and Waitakerei, there have l>:cn no September quarterly meetings, no applications for transfer of Licence having been received, and the Inspector report being in each case satisfactory. Recently a number of improvements were made at St. Andrew's Church, Alien Road. A sale of work will be hold to-day and tomorrow from "2.30 to 10 p.m. in the schoolroom, Symomls-street- by the members of St. Andrew's choir and friends, in aid of the fund for defraying the co-t of the improvement*. There will be an entertainment in the evenings. Messrs. Burrows and Mitchell, architects, have received the following tenders for the : erection of the new City Club Hotel : J. T. Julian, £2535 : ■). J. Holland, £2633 : James Heron, £27-5; Da vies and Evans. £2750: K. Wrisrlev, £2787 : Hirst and Jfoody, t'27te ; Nutt and -Collier, £"21147; J. Etioirnain, ' £'2HS7 : -V. McLean and Co.. £2t<'f>; Cleghorn and Rosier, £2997 « W. Philcox and Son, £3100. A miscellaneous concert was hekl last evening, at the Foresters' Hall, as a complimentary benefit to Mr. 31. Bird?,ill. The programme wits a very attractive one. Mr. J. 11. Pbillpot and Mis- Pulrnan played the accompaniments. Several of the items of the programme were encored, and the concert proved to be a very satisfactory one, and interested the audience thoroughly. There was a fairly good attendance.