NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8321, 30 July 1890, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

She weather yesterday was cold and stormy. . , , Great show of Union steamers in the harbour yesterday. There was in the lock-up last evening a Woman for drunkenness. Mr. George C. Miln's benefit and farewell performance to-night. Maratoto mine had a good yield of 16T>0oz silver bullion from 50 tons of ore. A big trade isgrowing'up in the exportation of horses from Australia to India. Coursing men have decided to run an eight-dog stake at Papaooctoo on the Kith August. . . The proposition to allow women to sit in municipal councils Mas negatived in the S.A. Assembly by '20 votes to 7. Seven fishermen have been lined £.>, or one month's gael, for illegal net fishing in I'ort, Hacking, New South Wales. A week ago, it is said, a Sydney firm of booksellers 'cabled for 100.000 copies of Bellamy's " Looking Backwards." Richard Minefield, carter, rarncll, has filed his schedule, and Henry Edward Johnson, a gunidifjger, has also tiled. The Travels'- Vale Dramatic Company arrived from Sydney yesterday. They open in the Opera House on Saturday night. R.M.s. Mariposa left San Francisco at. two p.m. on Saturday, contract date, and is due here on Saturday, loth August. It trades councils are to rule the business

of Queensland, the Premier of that colony thinks the tacts should be known at once. it has been decided by the South Australian Legislative Assembly that ministers of religion can in future act as aldermen. Captain Edwin wired from Wellington yesterday afternoon as follows ;—" Same indications, but for very heavy gale soon."

Further complaints of the irregular at ten dance of school children have been re ccived by the Auckland City Schools Com mittee.

A statutory meeting of the Orlando Gold Mining Company, which was to have teen held yesterday, lapsed for want of a ■quorum. On Saturday, 19th instant, seven vessels. carrying 13,071 tons of coal, cleared at the Customs of Newcastle for foreign and intercolonial ports. The revenue of West Australia for the June quarter was L'lSb.-oS, and for the halfyear i"'J;Ui,9S-. The colony has a credit balance of £77.053.

Sir G. M. 6'Rorke and Dr. Giles were yesterday re-elected members of the University College Council, the former for three years the latter for two.

Mr. Garland stated in the House in Sydney that there is not a harbour of refuge on the west coast of New Zealand from Stewart Island to Taranaki.

The employees in the service of the Newcastle Gas Company have resolved to form themselves into a branch of the lias-stokers' Association of New South Wales.

Mr. Bland Holt was lined L':> at the Melbourne City Court for allowing the Alexandra Theatre to be overcrowded on the opening night of " Master and .Man." A convention of chairmen of school committees is to be held at the Wellesley-streot school on Friday next. The (pie.-;ion at issue is that of the removal of teachers.

Inspector Seymour, of Sydney, considers (■team whistles, in general, a plaguey nuisance. His report, read by the Town Clerk, strongly urges their entire abolishment.

A paper on " Drawing" is to be read by Mr. W. I. Robinson, the well - known teacher of that subject, at the text meeting of the Auckland branch of the Educational Institute.

At a meeting of the Hawkesbury Fioo Relief Committee at, Windsor, the balance sheet which was presented showed th.v £1008 had been given away to distressc

persons. The fund was closed. Out of the 10,000,000 sterling value of goods exported from Cape colony during the past twelve months, over f>.ooo,OUj are accounted for by gold and diamonds — gold 1,000,000 and diamonds upwards of 4,000,000.

In the case of W. H. Thomson v. the Union Fire and Marine Insurance Company Dr. Giles gave judgment for the plaintiff, with costs £2 Is. The claim was £13 Os 7d, but credit was given for a certain sum paid into Court.

On Saturday evening, the 19th instant, W. Bashleigh got 2Vlwt to the dish from bis claim at the New Forest Glen diggings (South Australia). Bowar, the original prospector, got '2dwt to the dish, and the diggers are sanguine of the new field.

It is reported that a Melbourne syndicate is about to develop the gypsum industry at a place fifty miles south of Edithburgh, York's Peninsula (South Australia), It is intended to erect a jetty, and import a number «f Ge r "jan settlers to work the deposit.

A wanton act of vandalism was perpetrated at Mansfield, Victoria, on Sunday, the '-.'Otli instant, when the marble inonu-

merit, erected about ten years ago .to commemorate the courageous conduct of Sergt. Kennedy, and Constables Scanlon and Lonergan, v. ho were murdered by the Kelly gang in the Wain! at Ranges, was disgracefully injured. One marble urn was smashed into fragments, and the granite base was much injured.