NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8630, 28 July 1891, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Chamber sittings of the Supreme Court todaßich ore found in the low level of the S3 The wSl' exported from Westporb lasb week was 4080 tons. " Little Lord Fauntleroy " at the Opera House last night. "The Colleen Bawn." to-night. _- . * , The MoJyneux River being very low, Chinamen are making good wages cradling on its banks. During the lasb quarter the revenue received at the Wagga Land Office was £22,773 10s 3d. The Government of Wesb Anetralia has sent home for material for the South Western Railway, The Auckland Charitable Aid Board have decided to oppose " The Lunatic Act Amendment Bill." ( . At Brunnerton yosterday a-coroners jury brought in a verdict tbab Alphonse Bosvi died from exposure to cold. Ah applicant for charitable aid in Napier eaid she would sooner commit suicide than enter the Women's Refuge. Important scheme for the amalgamation of a number of mines in the Moanataiari. Creek has been inaugurated. Influenza is said to have made its appearance in the Matiawatu district in a more severe form than last year. The Christchurch City Council nave approved of the larger of the two niectrio Lighting Bills now before Parliament. The petition to Parliament praying for the passing of the Shop Hours Bill, is being largely signed by Chriatchurch residents. The natives have no less than 80,000 sheep running on the Awarua block, over which the Government has a mortgage of £5000. William Barnard was committed for trial at New Plymouth, yesterday, on a charge of stealing a leg of mutton from a butcher's shop. The receipts of the Goulburn Lands Office last quarter were £4513 6s 3d, showing an increase on last quarter of £611 13s 7d. Efforts are being made to amalgamate the Masterton and Wairarapa Pastoral and Agricultural Societies so far as the ram fairs are concerned. According to the Napier Telegraph the condition of flocks and feed prospects are so good that farmers reckon on clipping an extra pound of wool per head. A Gisborne man obtained a judgment against a Napier resident for £2 in 1884, and as the defendant would not pay he was recently sent to gaol for a week. The chairman of the Wellington Benevolent Board says it appears to him that in many cases the unemployed cry is only a subterfuge for obtaining charity. Christopher Nash, of the Beaumont Hotel, arrived at Kaitangata on Sunday night, and dropped dead immediately after tea, from heart disease. At a meeting of the Greymouth Harbour Board, Mr. A. R. Guinness, M.H.R., was unanimously re-elected chairman of the. Board for the next twelve months. Reports irom the inspectors in the Northern districts of "Victoria indicate thab the operation for keeping down the rabbit pest are being satisfactorily carried out. Regulations for the treatment of accident patients and the training of hospital nurses were adopted at yesterday's meeting of the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. The address presented to Sir George Grey in Melbourne is to be exhibited at Messrs. Wildman and Lyell's shops, Arcade Buildings, before being placed in the Public Library. A petition is to be presented to Parliament by sportsmen of the Lower Valley, praying that black swans be again brought within the meaning of the Animals Protection Act, 1880. A branch of the Knights of Labour has been formed atHunterville, with a membership of 85. The strength of the Woodville branch is now a hundred. Jndge Conolly has ruled thab claims for wages in lieu of notice against a bankrupt estate cannot be treated as preferential claims, but mueb be assessed and proved as debts in the ordinary way. Joseph William Kennedy was committed for trial at the Polico Court, yesterday, on several charges of forging and uttering cheques on confiding tradespeople. The Wanganui Herald reports that there is a serious danger.of the navigation of the port being destroyed through the sea taking away part of the sandbank at the mouth. A Woodville correspondent of a Welling;ton paper writes to say that any who may be thinking of making their homes in the rapidly settling district of Pahiatua need not be afraid of being left without opportunities of worship or without ministerial care. The South Australian Parliament ha* decided to spend the £10,000 placed in the Loan Bill last session to provide for an addition to the South Australian Museum; Library, and Art Gallery, in erecting a new museum, which will form the northern

end. In consequence of the complaints of nnemployed on the Wellington relief works, the Government has despatched Mr. March to make inquiries. The men urge they are kept needlessly idle, the work is improperly measured, and the pay decreased. By the Vote of the people of Ballarat East, taken on June 26, the number of hotels in that borough is to be reduced from sixty-eight, the present number, to twenty-eight. One thousand six hundred and forty votes were polled from a roll of 3588, and the majority for the reduction was 854.