NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8283, 16 June 1890, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

0 * * h0 SnpremeCoia* ?ff° Grippe fe still prevalent sfc the £1 of the Guard" at the Opera is strong advocate fc KS£££'slEU* out as a candidate for the Hutt district. Canterbury Temperance people have Started an organ of their own. Sergeant-Major Pratt, though recoverInc. is still unfit for constabulary duty. The mail steamer Mariposa, en route for Ban Francisco, arrived from Sydney yesM. O'Rorke anticipates that the eeslion will nob last much more than a l °Mr Jl 'p J. Moss and a number of other Auckland members leave for Wellington to"pSSnby Nazis' first team beat "A » second team at a rifle match on S cm&o, National Rank v. L. Grace, for , i486, money lent, at the Supreme Court *!3hAßnli. desires reciprocity with New Zealand, and a Bill for that purpose is te DsHcvans is still in Fiji, and regrets bis inability to keep bis promise to be back by the end of May. . ~ , Sir G. M. O'Rorke accuses Auckland members' of banding together to oppose Onehunga interests. .„_..,, Mr G? P. Pierce has presented " Firth s Reminiscences of New Zealand " (2 vols.) to the Public Library. _ ~011 The first contract lor repairing the fectiool of Mines, Thames, was let to Mr. J. Inghs, the price being £113 16s. By the mail steamer Mariposa, winch arrived from Sydney yesterday afternoon, no-Suez mails came to hand. A youth named Fountane, playing tor the University Football Club, at Ellershe, on Saturday,* had his leg broken. La grippe is very prevalent in Masterton at the present time. The latest victim reported is the Mayor, Mr. G. Heron. Sir G. M. O'Rorke addressed his constituents at Onehunga on Saturday, and obtained a vote of thanks and confidence. Nelson Brothers' freezing works at Gisborne have been started with a guarantee of 16,000 sheep per annum for three years. Dunediu magistrates comment severely on the increase of larrikinism, and characterise it as one of the great evils of the citv. Sir. Simon Dryden, one of the Thames pioneers, and subsequently manager of many leading mines, died on Friday night from congestion of the lungs. The Shag Point dispute is ended. The proprietors of the mine agreed to the terms of the Maritime Council, and took back the men who had been discharged. The Sunday afternoon meeting in the Y.M.C.A. Rooms was fairly attended. Mr. W, R. Vines delivered a thoughtful address on "Time, It* End ; Its Object." Mr. Thomas B. Murray is a through passenger from Sydney for San Francisco with a shipment of six brood thoroughbred mares for the stud of Mr. L. J. Rose, Los Angelos. In the Wellington Supreme Court on Saturday, James Jansen, charged with larceny of a number of gold,_ silver, and bronze coins, was acquitted after trial extending three days. Rowdy meeting at Sydney on the subject of compensation to publicans. The local optionists turned up in force at a meeting convened by publicans. The police had to be called in to preserve order. Messrs, McKelvey, Morrison, and Cook, three of the representatives of New Zealand at the champion athletic meeting in Sydney, returned to Wellington by the steamer Hauroto yesterday afternoon. The nett proceeds of the recent benefit football match, amounting to £77, have been handed over to Mrs. Conroy, the mother of the youth who recently died from injuries received while playing football.