STEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8864, 28 April 1892, Page 6

STEWS IN BRIEF.

& petition to be adjudged a bankrupt has been filed by James Barnett, miner, of gnaotunu. Mr. J. R. Blair has been reelected chairman of the Wellington Education Board. The Sydney School of Arts during last year received a Government subsidy amounting to £1592. The grain traffic on the Southland railway is tremendously heavy, necessitating specials to meet the rush. There have been four murders at Bendigo in two years, and in each case an axe has been the death-dealing weapon. A sum of £132, in a registered packet, Was extracted from a mail bag while in transit from Sunbury to Melbourne. We understand that Mr. Goldie intends Boon to issue a number of summonses against persons keeping unregistered dogs. The death is announced in Brisbane of Mrs. Griffith, widow of the late Rev. E. Griffith, and mother of Sir Samuel Griffith. A discovery of large deposits of salt in a save in the vicinity of Whiteman Creek, 12 miles from Grafton, New South Wales, is reported. A burglar tried to break into the Sydney Law Courts the other right. It is supposed that he was in quest of valuable documents. Mr. Davis, a New South Wales M.P., advocates the distribution among the people of the wealth contained in the Broken Hill Proprietary Mine. A letter has been received in Wood villa from Mr. Ross, formerly of that town, warning people against investing in the Zeehan silver mine*.

The sum of £9000 has been collected for the new Anglican Cathedral at Newcastle, the foundation-stone of which is to be laid by the Earl of Jersey on June 2. It is stated that Forest-inspector Campbell has reported the illegal cutting of 200 trees by one of the New Zealand Pine Company's mills in the Winton district. It is stated by the I'icton correspondent of the Marlborough Times that it is the intention of a syndicate of the shareholders to again work the Endeavour Inlet antimony mine. The Christchurch Telegraph says :—The present Government succeeded in getting into power mainly upon specious promises made by them that have never been fulfilled, and probably never will be. At the Stanley mine, in South Australia, a man named O'Donnell placed the muzzle of a eun in his mouth and a string round his big toe. Be discharged the gun, and it burst, almost blowing his head off.

While a train was crossing the North Fremantle Bridge, Western Australia, a railway employee named Henry Wright fell off. The wheels pissed over his head, killing him almost instantaneously.

During the past six months 43 arrests have been made in Christehurch on charges of iarrikinism, and tiT summonses have been issued, from which it would appear that the police had plenty to do in checking this form of annoyance. The Napier News gives an indignant denial to the report that some compositors had left their employ on account of a reduction in wages. The proprietors declare it to be a false and malicious libel, and threaten legal proceedings against its author.

Intelligence from the South describes the pressure of the grain traffic as being just now very great, that, notwithstanding the recent floods, the loss of grain has been much less than anticipated, and that the result to the railway revenue must be very advantageous. At the District Court, Westport, a youth charged with assault on a girl was acquitted by the jury, who perpetrated the absurdity of asking the judge to reprimand the youth they had just found "not guilty." His Honor peremptorily stopped the foreman in his speech. A man named Barclay committed suicide by drowning himself at Allendale, Victoria, lately. He tied his hands behind his back with a piece of fencing wire, and laid his face downwards in two feet of water. He leaves a widow and six children, the widow being of unsound mind. A letter, brimful of enthusiastic belief in the possibilities of New Zealand's progress, written by an ex - New Zealand settler, appears in a recent issue of the Otago Daily Times. The writer is a Mr. John Houghton, now of Sydney, but for many years a citizen of Dunedin. BA GHELORS BALL AT TAIRUA On* Monday, the 18th April, the bachelors of "The Landing" gave a "general invitation ball" to all the residents of Tairua and surrounding district, and I am certain that the cordial way in which their invitation was accepted by old and young must have given them genuine satisfaction. The hall was tastefully decorate 1 with ferns and evergreens under the supervision of Messrs. Sydney Laycock and Frank Strugnell, and reflected great credit on their artistic taste, while the supper-room, whose tables were loaded with the hosts of good things displayed thereon, was perfection. The culinary department, as well as. the embellishing, had been carried out by Mrs. A. Furber and Miss Maria Simpson, and if ever these two ladies surpassed themselves they most certainly did on this occasion, for a prettier sight to a hungry man (or maid) I am sure was never displayed than when the welcome notice was given to proceed to supper. It is superfluous to Bay that justice was done to everything, yet, despite the good appetites and everybody's determination to do his or her best, 11 lashings and lavings" there were. The music was provided by Mr. A. Coghlan, assisted by Mr. G. Culpan, and gave great satisfaction. As lam sure the first cry of some of my lady readers will be, "I wonder ■what so and so wore," I will endeavour to give a short resume of the dresses : —Mrs. Edwards, cream silk underskirt and bodice, pale blue lace overskirt and sleeves, cream ribbons; Mrs. Joyce, cream muslin, pink flowers ; Mrs. Wigmore, black lace over pink underskirt, black satin evening bodice, pink trimming; Mrs. Gamble, amber fishnet skirt, black satin evening body, pink flowers ; Mrs. Petley, white lace skirt over pale blue, whits body ; Mrs. Coghlan, white cashmere, trimmed with white satin ; Mrs. Culpan, red fishnet, red trimming to match ; Mrs. Marsh, black cashmere, pink trimming; Mrs. Furber, black cashmere skirt, white body, black velvet, Swiss belt; Miss M. Simpson, pale blue muslin evening body, cream ribbons; Miss J. Simpson, white muslin, pale blue ribbon ; Miss N. 3imp3on, white muslin, pink trimmings ; Miss A. Bell, white fishnet evening body, pale blue trimmings ; Miss E. Laycock, maize fishnet evening body, maize ribbons ; Miss M. Laycock, blue satin evening body, white lace over blue underskirt, blue sash ; Miss Preston, white muslin, pink vest and trimmings ; Miss Field, black cashmere, lace sleeves, pink trimmings; Miss Spence, cream lace evening body, pink roses ; Miss McCaul, white muslin, crimson flowers ; Miss Edmonds, black skirt, black velvet evening body, pink ribbons ; Miss Heath, pink sateen, cream lace; Miss Morrisson, white muslin, pink trimmings ; Miss Blackmore, black skirt, white muslin body ; Miss Thomson, sage-green silk. Among so many fair and charming demoiselles ib is almost impossible to select the belle, but if any preference is given it is decidedly equally divided between Miss Bell and Miss Maria Simpson. Messrs. W. Strugnell and T. Kirk admirably fulfilled the duties of M.C.'s. About 5 a.m. all wended their homeward way, having spent a most enjoyable evening.—[Own Correspondent.]

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