NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8583, 3 June 1891, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

* The Second Gough" is at Tintaru. Madame Patey does not like eisa voyages. The Government steamer Hinemoa'isin port on one of her periodical cruises round . che coast. - - ; The export of coal from Westporb last week was 3774 tons. When at Wanganui the Governor purchased a cross-country horse. • The French cruiser Le Champlain has left Auckland for Valparaiso. Some crosebred wethers recently offered in Lyttelton realised 25s each. A Gisborne paper terms a number of leading men in the district an u aggregation of asses-" •Mr. John Kirk wood, who met with an 'accident.to his knee a few weeks ago, is about again. The annual statement of accounts of the Auckland Martini-Henry Rifle Club shews a credit balance. '■■' An effort is to be made to raise funds for the defence of Floyd, charged with murder "at Wairoa South. The recent Chief Commissioner of Lands ab Southland, Mr. Spence, has resolved to go to South Africa. The hotelkeepers in Christcburch have entered into a league to rigorously observe Ibe law with regard to Sunday closing. Mr. T. H. Robertson, of Melbourne, has , been appointed assistant master at the Auckland College and Grammar School. The Hon. Mr. Ward will occupy the Ministerial residence in Tinakori Road, Wellington, on his return to that city next .week. ■ ;...■ Ab the hunt ab Grey town, just as the hounds were leaving the posit office corner, ■ a horse that one of the huntsmen was riding reared and fell dead. The English Song Evangelist, Mr. W. H. ' Whitehead, is at present holding services .in Dunedin, and intends working up NOrthward, returning to England via San Francisco. ', * Mr. Duncan Wright, evangelist, has left Dunedin • for Melbourne, with the view of prosecuting evangelistic work for a short eeason both in Victoria and New South Wales. A banquet was tendered to Major Steward, the Speaker, at Waimate on Monday night, when 75 settlers from all parts of the district met to honour their representative. Somebody accused Mr. Ballance of placing a blind man in charge of a snagging party on the.Wanganui river. It turns out that ,tho blind man and his sons took the workby contract. ;._ -..•■.. •■■.;;.■;.:"; ■-■}>/-'-. ' ; ' The following ambiguous " Sentence appears -in a contemporary :—"Drl Ginders has expressed an opinion on the subject of the sheep disease, which has been forwarded to the Auckland Herald." , A six-roomed house at Waimangaroa, owned and occupied by Joseph Ewart, was burned down at midnight on Sunday. The house and furniture were insured for £300 in the Phoenix. The origin of the fire is -unknown.

The Anani Farm, Waverley, of 1040 acres, about six miles from the township, has been purchased by Mr. James Riddell, from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company, into whose hands it had fallen. The price paid was £9000, which •included the stock, consisting of 2500 ewes. The following is the state of Her Majesty's Prison," Auckland, for the week ending May 30,1891:—On remand, 1 male ; awaiting trial, 6 males; penal servitude, 49 anales, 1 female; hard labour, 48 males, "16 females ; default, of bail, 5 males; received during; thejweek, 11 males, 9 females; ■ discharged, il males, 6 females. Total in prison, 108 males, 16 females. The large and rare fish which was recently stranded at Okain's Bay, near Christchurch, has been pronounced to be a . very fine specimen of the Regcdicus Pacificus, frequently known as the ribbon fish", and sometimes called king of the herring. There is one specimen)already in the Museum, but it is , only 12 feet long, while that , recently caught measures 20 feet.