NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8683, 28 September 1891, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The coal exporb from Groymoubh last week was 1754 tons. Tho Wellington Benevolent Trustees sent an epileptic subject to Eketahuna to cut down trees. A Carterton farmer (says a contemporary) had 185 per cont. of lambs from his sheep this year. All are thriving. Mr. Mungo Hislop, an old resident of Dunedin. father of James Ilislop, architect, died on Saturday of Bright'a disease, aged v 08. Mr. A. W. Brown, retiring Mayor, of . Wellington, will nob offer himself for reelection. Mr. C. F. Worth is as yet the only candidate announced. A prize of £10 is offered by the Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Association for the best bale of New Zealand dressed flax exhibited at their annual show. The Napier Telegraph writes :—Somo of the small settlements in the bush are not in such a flourishing condition as they used to be, land having deteriorated in value, and the population diminished somewhat. There were in the lockup last evening four persons on charges of drunkenness; Stephen Smith, assault and obscene language; Thomas Freestone, obscene language ; Annie Dunn, drunkenness and obscene language. / The Foil ding Star says " This morning a boy named F. Hcnson, aged 10 years, whose parents reside at llalcoinbe, was taken to Palmerston to be charged before tho K.M. with stabbin-r another boy, and on suspicion of tiro-raising." I As showing the vitality of tho ordinary footballer (remarks the North Otago Times), and his evident freedom from pain, we may mention that one of the Timaru players in the game last Thursday had two ribs broken, but continued to play throughout. "Liberal" papers aro always badly informed, says thellawke's Bay Herald. Just now they aro praising tho Government for giving some scholarships to Maoris at Te Auto, when, as a matter of fact, the scholarships are tho result of tho generosity of the late Sir Donald McLean. The Mercury understands that the Bulls Small Farm Association now number 46 members. Applications for membership have been received from persons living so far away as Shannon. A committeo will start almost immediately to inspect tho land under offer by the Government. Ib is reported (says the Kaikoura Star) that a large line of potatoes has changed hands here at 153 per ton, bags given in. .If this is so it is pitiable. How would some of the blatant members of Parliament liko to grow potatoes at that price. £240 a-year, payable monthly, is move in their line. A young man named John Bowan Moore, a dairyman, was arrested in the Ballarat Christ Church Pro-cathedral, whither, he had found entrance, with the object of conducting a special service on his own account. His praying and singing attracted the notice of the Archdeacon, who was compelled to enlist the services of the police. A case of an unusual character was brought before the Napier R.M. recently when a Spit resident was fined a shilling for taking two buckets of water from a standpipe, tho property of the Corporation. The information was laid in consequence of complaints which had been made of late by the borough officials, and brought as a warning to the public. The members of the Wanganui Licensing Committee have been served with a notice of motion in respect to their right to sit and adjudicate as members of the Licensing Committee, on the ground that three of them were pledged to close a certain number of the publichouses, and that at least one of the members was not qualified, he not being at the time a ratepayer of the borough. The Dunedin Star says:—One of the cases set down for hearing at the ensuing civil sittings of the Supreme Court is, in the first place, a claim of £100 preferred by a well-known medical man for professional attendance, and then a counter-claim of £2000 as damages, it being alleged that the defendant to the original action has lost the proper use of his leg, through the unskilful treatment of his physician.