ITEMS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8285, 18 June 1890, Page 6

ITEMS IN BRIEF.

■Chamber sittings-of the Supreme Court y lfTScombe's health is reported to be St?granted to tho Occidental Hotel, V Mt!eS; noting in "The Yeomen of fbo Guard," is superb. j_-jo Victorian railway employes have decided In form an eight hour union. "Chums" is pnnounced at the Theatre Royal, Christehnrch, for the '24th inst. Sir Chas. Hallo has been entertained by tire Melbourne Metropolitan Liedertafe . Mr Christie Murray and Mr. St. Maur risited the big kauri tree at the Thames. A branch of the Postal and Telegraph Offic rrs' Society has been formed at Tnuaru. Cardinal Moran has sent to Bourke £100- first instalment of tho flood relief

'"a 'two-year-old boy named Credin was tilled by aJocomotive at Whangapoua yeato Wfaor discovery of rich auriferous ore i? reported at Pohipuhi. lb is not yet Victorians completed the largest diamond drill in Australia for the Queensland Crovernment. National Bank v. Joshua Jonoa, The case National Bank v. Joshua Jones, an application to have a judgment set as.de, Is postponed. . , , The flags of flapping m harbour were half-mart yesterday as a mark of respect, to Sir. S. Turtle, , . , There has been a steady increase _ of deaths from diphtheria in Melbourne during i be last three or four years. Louis Rosenberg was yesterday fined 40s and costs or in default 14 days' imprisonment for giving an unstamped receipt. Mr Took is of opinion that the cheapest commodity in Australia is the drama, and the distinguished gentleman tent far out

It is state,! that it is he wish of the contributors that the English feoarle Memorial should be placed in the Sydney Art Gallerv. , , T , „ The" first bore for water between Lake Frome and Lake Cockburn (S.A.). was a failure. The second has struck salt water at 1050 feet. , t , Andrew Young was yesterday sentenced to six months" 'imprisonment tor stealing windows and locks from an unoccupied house in Tamaki. , Mr. Evan Jones is bringing to Sydney From Adelaide some opal stone from the Wikaunia district said to be superior to the Queensland stone. . Mr J. W. Carter, of Mangapai, has crown and dried a fine sample of Italian prunes. The prune industry has assumed dimensions in California. The Government are withdrawing the prisoners from the New Plymouth breakwater. Lately the men have been engaged In.planting sand-binding grass. ■ An interesting case, Stokes V. McLaul, for writ of prohibition for invasion of patent rights, comes up for hearing to day, before •Judge Conolly and a special jury. The Bendigo Evening News has been eased of £60 for a couple of libels published against- one 11. Christopher, secretary of the Veterinary Medical Association of Victoria. Mr. S. Jagger's death yesterday mornfog, although not quite unexpected by his friends, created a good deal of surprise in the city, and great sympathy with his family was expressed. No less than 22 tons of New Zealand fish and game (says the Australian Star of the Dth) arrived in a frozen condition yesterday, consigned to the New South Wales Fresh Food and Ice Company, Mr. S. Turtle's remains were followed to the Thames steamer yesterday by nearly all the sharebrokers, and a large number of Masonic brethren, He will be interred to-day with Masonic ceremonies at the Tararu cemetery. At Dunedin a man has lost a valuable horse through la grippe. The symptoms were identical with" the recently prevalent influenza in its worst form. The horse was only ill for about 24 hours before he dropped , dead in the stable. j

When off Cape Egmont a flying fish came on "board the St. Ki'lda, which was secured. It turns out to be a very rare specimen of the kind, being what is known as "the bearded flying nsh," a very unusual visitor to New Zealand waters.