NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8470, 22 January 1891, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Banco sitting of the Supreme Court yesterday. r, , 1The Morxiwni beat the Zealandia on the Ocean trip, Sydney to San Francisco. Thames Drainage Board met yesterday--3lr. Brodie succeeds Mr. Lennox as chairman. Miss E'lsa May's benefit performance, at the Choral Hall," last night, was a musical treat. A lad, named Hector Foster, was drowned at Ponaotiby last evening through a boat nccidenfc. > A man named Henry John Philips was arretted yesterday for uttering a forged jfbeque for £12 10s. Garrett Brothers' bankrupt stocks sold resierday realised far higher prices than ad been anticipated. Annual meeting of St. James's Presbyterian Church last night. The financial affairs show an improvement on the previous year. A young man, "JO years of age, named Albert E. H:irmer, was drowned in the ttclton Harbour yesterday morning ivhile in a fit. Kaihu Valley Railway Company's disf>utes not yet settled. Nice argument on aw as to solicitor's liens yesterday in the Supreme Court. At \Vai{>ori, Otago, John Morrison, Svhose brother is a member of the firm of Anderson and Morrison, plumbers, Dunedin, lost his life owing to taking an overdose of laudanum. The examinations for mine managers' Certificates, which were to have been commenced at tihe Thames School of Mines, yesterday have been postponed by Government till '24th proximo. The Dunedin Atheneum committee start the year with a credit balance of £30 7s 9d. Another £100 was paid ofT the mortgage, which now stands at £ti<K). The average Dumber of subscribers is 900. An old man named James Borley, shoemaker, belonging to Newmarket, fell off the ferry steamer Britannia yesterday, but was rescued. He died at the Hospital last evening from the nervous shock. Mr. Smith, M.H.R., for Waipawa, was banquetted in the Town Hall. Danevirke, Dn Tuesday, and presented with a purse of one hundred sovereigns. Among those present was Mr. W. L. Kees. For several years past a good deal of .attention has been given to the varieties of plums grown in Japan, which differ considerably from those common in Europe and America. Numbers of these trees have been planted, but few as yet are in a bearing condition. We learn that those who desire to see some of these fruits will have an opportunity of doing so, as Messrs. Blythe and Son will have a case on view at Air. A. Aitkin's on Friday.