NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8375, 1 October 1890, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

S.e. Wairarapa arrived yesterday from Sydney. Banco sittings of the Supreme Court to-day. A Gumdiggers' Union has been formed ab the Wade.

Licenses for public halls, theatres, etc., expired yesterday. German squadron now in Sydney is expected to visit Wellington. Judgment debts in future are to carry 6 per cent interest. Mr. Justice Conolly leaves for Now Flyinouth and Wellington on Tuesday. The Auckland Harbour Board are willing to provide a site for the new morguo. A portion of tho mounted infantry did duty in Sydney as special constables. The public schools are closed during tho present week for the Michaelmas holidays. Largo number of applications at the Chamber sittings of tho Supremo Court yesterday. An addition of 40 feet is to bo made to shed D, on No. '2 eastern tee, of the Queenstreet Wharf. During the past) few weeks £1300 has been sent to Sydney from Wagga towards the strike fund. Mr. James Gilmour was yesterday returned unopposed as a member of Parnell Borough Council. Gospel Temperance service of song, " Father, Come Home," at St. James' Hall last evening. Michael Morrow, for using obscene language, was yesterday sentenced to seven days' imprisonment. More rich finds continue to bo made at Broken Hill. The Consols mine has got into very rich material. Judgment in the celebrated case Ehrenfried v. Gleeson will be delivered by Mr. Justice Conolly to-day. A seaman on board tho Rangitikei was sentenced yesterday to seven days' for refusing to obey his captain. AlburniaGold Mining Company's meeting resolved that the directors consider the advisability of increasing the number of shares. Admiral Lord Scott has asked the Auckland Harbour Board on what terms the use of land near Calliope Dock is to be given to the Admiralty. The question of advertising upon the Auckland wharves is to be considered by the Work* and Tariff Committee of tie Harbour Board. Two burglars were arrested in Melbourne on Saturday night, 20th September, in the act of robbing a jeweller's shop in the Eastern Arcade. The wine jurors at the Edinburgh Exhibition have awarded Mr. Burgoyne a diploma of honour and a gold medal for his exhibit of Australian wines. The Government have approved of the plans for the boat harbour at the entrance to the Queen-street Wharf, and for the additions to the outer western tee. Farewell performance of Wirth's Wild West and Circus Company last night. They leave for Gisborne today by the chartered steamer Janet Nicoll. The value of exports from the port of San Francisco to Australia for the halt-year endin" June 13, is set down at 529,016 dollars, and to New Zealand 71,991 dollars. Michael Ryan, found guilty of stealing wearing appared, etc., from the Bricklavers' Arms, was remanded for sentence pending the report of the Probation OtHcer. Thomas Quoi has obtained leave to tile an amended answer to the petition of his wife for judical separation. The new plea alleges adultery on the part of the petiThe chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board, Mr. Niccol, is to proceed to Wellington or Dunedin shortly, to interview the Hon. G. McLean regarding the San Francisco service. Some of the Lithgow colliery proprietors are refusing payment of wages to tho miners on account of fourteen days' notice not being given. The miners rely upon legal action. The Finance and Legal Committee of the Auckland Harbour Board are to consider the question of remitting storage charges ujKin goods delayed in the Boards sheds because of the strike. Richard Sturday, a fireman on the steamer Dickey, was run over by a train near South Brisbane (Queensland) on the 21st September, and terribly mutilated. He died a few minutes after being found. The woollen mills at Geelong will probably be closed in consequence of the price of fuel. The operatives have offered to submit to a reduction of five per cent, of their wages towards meeting the extra cost of fuel. . The first step in connection with the general shearers' strike has been taken, and the men at Murwel station, near Charleville (Queensland) ceased work on the 22nd September, leaving 30,000 sheep unshorn. As the result of a row between European* and Chinamen at Lower Hutt, on Monday night, Thomas James Smith was killed, and one Chinaman severely injured. Three'of ths Chinese have been arrested on a charge of murder. Five men attacked a time-keeper of the A.U.S.N. Company in Brisbane on Saturday ni"ht, 21. s t September, and tried to get his time-book. Not finding it, they robbed him, and threw him into a railway cutting. He was insensible for some hours. The following is the state of Her Majesty's prison, Auckland, for the week ending 27th September :— On remand, 3 males ; awaiting trial, 2 males ; boy, 1 : penal servitude, 4.j males, 2 female? ; hard labour, 57 males, 15 females; impri'Otiment, 1 male; default of bail, 4 males, 1 female ; received during the week, 11 males, 3 females ; discharged, 10 males, 3 females. Total in prison, 113 males, IS females.