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NEWS IN BRIEF.

There was a heavy fall.of enow at Dunedin the other day; - - The fc)tal cost of the Wellington Harbour Board 30-ton oraiu was £3361. . At Napier the other day a witness in a 6 Court case said he would net touch a glass of beer for £1000. The Auckland Society of Arts has decided to ask the City Council to open the Art Gallery on Sunday afternoons. The Wellington City Council have decided to refer the competitive designs for the Free Library to a committee outside of the Council.. The Wanganui Chronicle says:—We learn that the Hon. W. P. Reeves, Minister ior Education, baa parted vith his interest in the Lyttelton Times. " Intimation has been issued to the jurors in the civil case, Rae v. Greenway, that the hearing will be resumed on Monday, the Bth instant, at eleven o'clock. Mr. Mansfield, third engineer at the Waitara Freezing Works, had his leffc arm broken near the wrisb on Saturday la%t, •when attending to the machinery. The petition of Edward Seagar, ironfounder, for winding up the New Zealand Antimony Company, is set- down for hearing afc the Supreme Court on June 12. The formation of a Farmers' Co-operative Society, which was attempted in the Wairarapa some" months back and fell through, is now being taken up in Wellington. A resolution has been carried by the L shareholders of the Golden Treasure Goldjnining Comp3,ny, Reef ton, to dispose of the property for £6000. An offer of £4000 was rejected. .Mr. Gerald Baldwin, who has distinguished himself by winning the Pollock scholarship, for physiology, at St. George's ; Hospital, is a son of Captain Baldwin, of ',: Wellington. A lupus patient in the Dunedin Hospital, ■who has been treated with Koch's tuberculine, baa so r far recovered as to be able to use one of her eyes, -which was previously ■etone blind. - On Monday, Mr. Beetham, the Dnnedin Resident Magistrate, commences an in;quify into Mr. Macdonald's allegations against the Official Assignee re the adi ' ministration of his estate. Daring last yearabout 22,0001b of cheese were manufactured at the Farnhain factory, situated on the banks of the Meri River in : the Western District, Victoria, and realised the satisfactory price of 5d a lb. Four horses in Adelaide having died •through eating ensilage, Mr, / Bickford, the; Government veterinary surgeon, enquired, into the matter, and found, they had been getting ab some pits of sour ensilage. ... ' ' ' --. , ' At the annual meeting of the Auckland Society of Arts last night it appeared from ~.,* .the correspondence read that all efforts to secure the amalgamation of that society and the Auckland Academy of Art had failed. , ■ The Woodville Examiner says:—"According to the census returns, the North Island is entitle to another member of .Parliament. The Forty-mile Bush will •have"a 1 big say in locating the additional seat." • The Dunedin Star says that a local insurance manager, whose head office is not in New. Zealand, is a candidate for the general managership of the New Zealand Insurance, Company, vacant by the death of Mr. G.» P. Pierce. > • ;. A debate on the subject of the leadership of the Irish party, by the Catholic Literary Society, resulted in favour of Parnell by four votes. Many of the anti-Parnellites were absent, however, when the division took place. ( A specimen of Puhipuhi silver ore, taken from the Colonial's Claim afc Puhipuhi, has been .assayed by Mr. Worley, * ; analyst and teacher of the School of Mines class. Nelson. -This specimen was describedas an average sample, and it yielded at the ..*. rate of 112oz of silver to the ton. ...* On Wednesday Dr. Murray, Catholic Bishop of Maitland, 'and Father Foran returned from 'Te Aroha. The Bishop has only slightly improved ia health by the trip. He and Father Foran leave for Sydney by the steamer Rotomahana, on .Tues-: .day, on their; return to Maitland. Fair wages continue to be made at rabbit- ■ catching in the South. - On a farm a few miles from Dunedin two young men trappedninety in one day recently. Their total for *, the week was 250, which, at 6d a pair, gives the , trappers £3 2s6d to divide, less* cost of conveyance to a preserving factory. - Ic is reported that Naseby (Otago) was; thrown into a great state of excitement bythe arrival of Mr. Bowerman, the Pic-; tureaque Atlas agent. _A crowd-collected and rang the fire-bell to induce him/to leave • his hotel. 'On his doing so/he was chased ; and roughly used, by , the crowd, who besieged the hotel for some hours. ' Some' of the crowd, knowing that the obnoxious canvasser carries firearms, were also armed with ievolvers. ;

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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8585, 5 June 1891, Page 6

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NEWS IN BRIEF. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8585, 5 June 1891, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8585, 5 June 1891, Page 6