NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8386, 14 October 1890, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

(Joseph Reid Dodson, brewer, Nelson, died yesterday at the age of 7S years. Mr. Heeles, of the Wellington Woollen Company, is at present in Auckland on a visit. The Vivian Dramatic Company leave today for Whangarei, where they will play for three nights. Maddison 8 flour mill at Rangiora, Canterbury, has been burnt to the ground. Insurance, £SOO. Patterson's cab which went over the wharf on Saturday night was recovered yesterday morning. Rev. Charles Clark's lecture on Dickens, last night, was an unqualified success. Westminster Abbey, to-night. Annual meeting of Otahuhu Public Hall Company, in Public Hall, on Wednesday, 129 th instant, at half-past eight- o'clock. A composition of 4s in the £1, accepted by the creditors of William Shaw, was confirmed at the Supreme Court yesterday. The Tabernacle anniversary soiree will be held this evening, when addresses will be given by various ministers on special topics. Davis, recently stabbed in a fracas in Shortland-street, is not yet out of danger, but signs of improvement are more decided.

There is reason to believe that many ol the lumpers will return to work this week, as they are dissatisfied with the reduced strike pay. Mr. E. Connell has resigned the post oi Resident Engineer at Wellington. He proceeds home, and will be succeeded by Mr. R. W. Holmes.

Mr. Edmund Mason, Registrar of Friendly Societies, delivered an address at the Academy of Music, last night, and received a vote of thanks.

The Kamo Coal Company is to work double shifts, to increase the output to 4000 tons a month, and a number of men are being engaged in Auckland. An inquiry into the circumstances connected with the fire which destroyed the old Government Printing office, in Wellington, will be held on Friday. Wreckage has been found on Rangitoto Island, consisting of a large ship's mast, but there is nothing to indicate the identity of the vessel to which it belonged. _ The ferry steamer Osprey sailed for para yesterday where she is to trade between Helensville and Dargaville. She should prove well suited for this trade. The annual meeting of shareholders of Hazelbank Goldmining Company, will be held at the Company's office, on Wednesday, the 23rd instant, at half-past eleven. A well-attended meeting of master tailors was held yesterday evening at Robson's Rooms to consider matters connected with the trade. The proceedings were private. Deputation to the Hon. E. Mitchelson re San Francisco Mail Service. He promised to do his best to keep the time limit to '20 days, and to retain Auckland as the port of call in New Zealand.

A horse belonging to Mr. Farrell, bolted across the lino at Onehunga, last evening, and was so much injured that it had to be destroyed. The cart to which he was •attached was smashed.

At the Thames Police Court yesterday, the charge against Alexander A. Blackman of having fraudulently obtained the sum of £12 10s from one George Feel was dismissed. Mr. Kenrick appeared for defendant, and said that it was purely a misunderstanding between the parties concerned, which he sustained by evidence. A meeting in connection with the Wesleyan Home Mission will be held at St. John's Church, Ponsonby, to morrow evening, at which addresses will be delivered by well-known ministers and friends. Hauraki Paul, the native teacher, will also give an address. During the evening the ch.ldren of the Sunday-school will sing a number of their recent anniversary hymns.