NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8374, 30 September 1890, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

•The Premier's health is said to bo lmbankrupts received their discharges yesterday. . Forged Colonial Bank notes are circulating in Melbourne. A number of Civil servants have been dismissed in Queensland. The s.s. Wairarapa is expected to arrive from Sydney this forenoon. Nominations of candidates for vacancy in Parnell Borough Council to-day. The Maoris in the Greytown district have formod a Christy Minstrel troupe. Judge Conolly sits next Monday in chambers, bankruptcy, and banco jurisdiction.

A motion has been tabled in the Parnell Borough Council for the recovery of overdue rates.

The town clerk of North Rockhampton, Queensland, has been arrested for alleged embezzlement.

The Queensland Railway Commissioners have approved of running cheap excursion trains to Sydney. The Tasmanian Assembly ha" rejected a proposal to vote £401),IKK) for tho Huon railway from Hobart to Geeveston. The usual statutory meetings of tho shareholders of the Lady Carrington and Junction G.M. Companies wore held yesterday. During their stay in this city Messrs. Wirth Brothers have expended in trade bills, exclusive of board and livory charges, over £1000.

The Queensland Government has decided to make a considerable reduction in the number of officials employed in the Railway Survey Department. A resident of Devonport has been complaining to the Council of damage done by the vibration caused by the firing of salutes from Mount Victoria.

A concert was given in the Sunday-school of Holy Trinity Church, Devonport, last night by the choir of All Saints'. There was a largo audience The Victorian Football Association are inquiring into the charges of dishonesty and bribery made against members of tho South Melbourne team.

The quarterly meeting of the Operative House Painters' Union was held at the Foresters' Hall yesterday evening. The business was of a routine character.

The case of Michael Ryan was remanded at the Police Court yesterday. He was charged with the theft of various articles of drapery, to which he pleaded not guilty. The jury brought in a verdict of accidental death in the case of William Godfrey, drowned in the harbour on the 14th instant. The inquest was held yesterday. The Victorian Railway Commissioners have agreed to grant the usual facilities to exhibitors for the free carnage of exhibits for the Tastnaniaii Exhibition in Launceston.

Important case as to appropriation of Press Association telegrams at the Supreme Court yesterday. The ruling is that the Association's telegrams and cablegrams are protected. The Queensland Commissignerof Fisheries has returned from a visit to Torres Straits and Northern Queensland, and reports a successful experiment in the cultivation of pearl oysters. The lassooing of the wild bull at Potter's Paddock on Saturday was performed in thirty-seven seconds. The time stated yesterday, thirty-seven minutes," is obviously in error. The report of the Probation Officer on the character of James Morgan, who was convicted for, stealing a coat on Friday last, was unfavourable, and he was sent to prison for one month.

A circular letter on the opium question has been addressed by the Victorian Premier to the different colonies, pointing out the advantage of uniform restrictive legislation to combat the evil.

Messrs. John Sanderson and Co. have received the following telegram from Belalie station, near Bourke :—" Struck splendid supply water ; bore estimated over 1,000,000 gallons per day ; will start second bore at □nee."

A distressing case of sudden death occurred at Toowoomba (Queensland) recently. Clara Terry, a young woman, aged about 20 years, was engaged in a dance at the Hibernian Hall, when she suddenly fainted, as it was thought, in her partner's arms. Medical aid was summoned, but the doctor, on arrival, pronounced life to be tinct.