NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8423, 26 November 1890, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mayoral elections at Newmarket and Devonporb to day. Monday ne:ct, St. Andrews Day, will be observed as a, bank holiday. _ , Mr. Justice Conolly held a Chamber (sittings yesterday, and to-day he will sit in banco , _ , ~, , Annual inflating of Waitomata County Council to-d&y, and general meeting immediately after. ~ T The distinguished English comedian, J. L. Toole, commenced a season at the Opera House last night. Tho cantata, "Cloud and Sunshine, was well rendered at the Grafton Road Wesleyan Church last night. _ Quarterly communication of the Grand Lodge New Zealand Constitution last night was largely attended. Mr. Jackson Palmer notifies elsewhere times and places at which he will address electors of Waitemata. The ordinary business meeting of the Auckland Gasworks Employes was held last night in Sexton's Hall, Newton. Tenders invited by Telegraph Department for delivery of telegraph pole butts between Warkworth and Helensville. Tho adjourned annual meeting of the Auckland Rifle Association will be held this evening at eight o'clock at tho Drill Shed. Henry Wilson has been arrested at Christchurch on a charge of burglary at I'aimerston North. Ho has been remanded there. , , There were in the lock-up Inst erening two persons on charges of drunkenness, and a woman named Letham oil a charge of larceny from a dwelling. At tho inquest upon the body of the child named James David Roy croft, who was drowned in lvauaeranga river, a verdict of " Accidental death" was returned. A meeting of the shareholders of the John Bull Gold Mining Company will bo held at tho New Zealand Insurance Buildings, on Friday, the sth December, at eleven o'clock. at Gisborno threw a handful of A man at Gisborne threw a handful of paper in the fire, quite unsuspecting that it contained dynamite. A great explosion occurred, inflicting fearful abdomenal wounds. Tho prizes for tho late Dog Show will be distributed at W. J. Hurst and Co. s Office, Queen-street, on Saturday, from seven to nine p.m. Mr. Gilbert Ronntree was fined 40s and costs yesterday for letting off fireworks to tho danger of Mr. J. 11. Field, the wellknown printer. . At the Wellington Resident Magistrate s Court yesterday, two persons were fined 10s and costs for making a false declaration under the Electoral Act. The concluding dance of the season of the Remuera Social' Union (plain and fancy dress) will be held in tho Hall, top of Orakei Road, to-morrow evening. The requisition to Mr. J. M. Shera re-, questing him to stand for the city, and his reply, appear in our advertising columns. A salo of work and Christmas tree will be held in tho Foresters' Hall, Newton, on Friday and Saturday next, in aid of funds of St. Peter's Presbyterian Church.