NEWS IN BRIEF

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8476, 29 January 1891, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF

Fifty-kirst-anniversary of the colony today. Wfeather very close and " muggy." Orange picnic at Motutapu to-day. number of aquatic excursions toThe Regatta starts at half-past eight a.m. to-day. Kerosene licenses and dog registrations due on Saturday. Mr. ooldie ha? refused a portfolio in the Ballance Ministry. Annual meeting , of the Saxon. Goldmining Company yesterday. Councillor Garratt wants urinals erected in Karangahape Ward. The Sydney Athletic " reps." arrived by the s.r-. Tβ Anau yesterday. Newmarket Borough is taking measures to improve their drainage system. The yacht race.-* at the Regatta are expected to be especially keen to-day. It. is not generally known that Morris, the famous Victorian " bat." is a negro. Anniversary regatta to-day will, under favourable circumstance?, be a great success. A meeting of the creditors of J. T. Smith, publican, lapsed yesterday for want of a quorum. Takapuna summer race meeting commences to-day. Cheap fares and big attractions. Three boys were ordered to be birched, at the Police Court, yesterday, for stealing fruit at Ponsonby. The ship Leading Wind is now fairly afloat again, and was swinging at her cable yesterday afternoon. It is rumoured that Bennett, the Sydney defaulting bank manager, was a passenger to Frisco by the Monowai. Annual meeting of St. Barnabas' Church last night. The report and balance-sheet Were considered favourable. Native Lands Commissioners have finished their work in Auckland, and will sit in Tauranga on the 12th prox. The schooner Rainbow, bourd from Melbourne to the Clarence River, is believed to have been lost with all hands. A drover was lined 4 - Js and costs at Albury for bringing sheep across the Murray from Victoria without a permit. St. Marys Sunday School children held their postponed picnic at St. Heliers Bay yesterday, and thoroughly enjoyed them■selves. ■ Sytvia Park estate was bought yesterday by the New Zealand and River liate Mortgage Company for £10,000. It was offered in one lot. Robert Kurts, proprietor of the Don Clothing Factory, Queen-street, has been arrested in Melbourne on a charge of larceny as a bail lie. The agitation against the new railway tariff on agricultural produce, in Queensland still contiuues in all the southern agricultural centres. Amongst the passengers from Australia yesterday, were Professor Carrollo and Mr. Walker Jones, the well-known yachtsman, who returned from a holiday trip. At a suecial meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, held in Adelaide, a mvjority decided that l.args Bay would be tfte most desirable place for landing the English | mail. Mr. C. Thornton, the well known Kent and Middlesex cricketer, who is on a visit to New South Wales, say? that Australian weather is delightful, whilst English weather is awful. On Tuesday, the '20th instant, a boat was swamped at Ulverstone, Tasmania, and two brothers, aged 9 and 10, were drowned. Their father was also drowned in endeavouring to save them. With the view of setting an example to the Victorian farmers, the Governor of that colony ha.- made, arrangements to have •ome practical experiments in making .-iisilage in the Government House grounds. On Tuesday, the 20th instant, about 230 Ben and youths in connection with the Wdrking Men's Association paraded Port Pirie (S.A.) and hooted the Broken Hit! Proprietary otiice fur employing free labourers. News from Thursday Island states that the Rev. Maitiand Woods has returned from his mission visit to the mainland. He states that he was received with great favour by the remnants of the Jardine River tribes.

The maintenance men of the Berrimn district, New South Wales, have presented Mr. W. McCourt, M.L.A., with a gold albert and pendant, as a recognition of the services rendered by him in having obtained from the Government the concession of eight hours as a day's work, with the right to leave off at one on Saturday?. A box containing £400 worth of jewellery, the property of -Mrs. Wilson, of Trafalla Station, near Beaufort, Victoria, was lost some 12 months ago. Mrs. Wilson's son-in-law, in charge of Trafalla .Station, was notified by the Railway Department, ibout a week ago, that a box for Mrs. Wilson was lying at Spencer-street station. It proved to be the missing box.