NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8284, 17 June 1890, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

3. C. Seocostbb is reported to-be pleading members of the Queensland B C°t y H SUETS «* with a cordial reception in Melbourne. were halfC Flags in harbour yesterday were halfmastTm respect of Mr. S. Turtle. WrtU Circus new programme last night was as successful as usual. >f |lr Wm. Fox lectured on "Egypt at the Auckland Institute last night. The s.s. Mararoa has again made a fast trio— days 22 hours from Sydney. _ Since 1885 nine deaths have occurred in Sydney hospitals under chloroform. J " The Yeomen of the Guard " delighted the audience at the Opera House last Di The Queensland Railway Commissioners have ordered that all the employees must *m' S Jaeger is dangerously ill, and but faint arc entertained for Ins reof Auckland members for Weilington to-day. They expect to bo soon b 'subscribers to Sailors' Home very small indeed. Barely sufhcient to form a °rnua1 e 'meeting of the Sailors' Home yesterday. Reports and balance-sheet satisfactory. , . Mr Samuel Turtle died yesterday morning. 'He is to buried at lie Thames with Masonic honours. In the New South ales Assembly recently one speaker referred to New Zealand as an outlying island. The Mavor of Liverpool (NS.W.) had Alderman T. W. Taylor bound over to keep the peace for .-ix months. The Typographical Association and the Sheared Union of Blaekall, Queensland have voted £50 each to the bootmakers Strike in Brisbane. The Sdbury Pastures and Stock Board have decided to co-operate in an effort which is to be made to procure the repeal of the Rabbit Act. Advices to hand from Sydney state that the. shipment of twenty-one Y\ aikato horses, by Messrs. Bradley and Co., realised very satisfactory prices. . We are "lad to notice that Bishop Cowie has sufficiently recovered to be able to be about again. He presided at the Sailors' Home meeting yesterday. C. N. Dyett, a broker, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment at tho Adelaide Criminal Court for altering a figure on Central Mine scrip from 5 to 50. Captain Edwin, telegraphing at ten minutes to four p.m. yesterday, predicts north to west and south-west gale, with rain, within next ten hours. Glass fall, but rising after that time. Mr. Justice Stephens says that the Land Acts of the colony of N.S.W. are simply a series of puzzles, much more suited to the ingenuity of those who can unravel enigmas than to persons like the Judges. The Chief Justice of New South Wales says that it is impossible for any Bench, no matter how constituted, to be certain on any points raised under the kind Act of ISS4, or under any of the Land Acts. Nice question of law at the Supreme Court yesterday. Is a person liable tor interest on an "overdrawn account at _ one branch of a bank, if lie have a credit at another. Judge Conolly has taken time to consider the question. Another serious labour railway trouble is feared in South Australia, in consequence of the repeated refusals of the chairman of the Railway Board to receive a deputation from the strikers' and boilermakers' assistants employed at the railway works. These men are now classed as labourers, and only get four holidays in the year ; whereas they claim to be treated as skilled men, and to receive eight.