NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8947, 3 August 1892, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

n'mawj the last year 236 free passes were S3 for the New Zealand railways. ' fifteen per cent, of the women of Bfais colony are compelled to earn their daily i>t The incursion of rabbits into the Paniagua district is causing a feeling of uneasiness amongst settlers. Mr A. R. T. Haultain, • Police Court 'Clerk, has been appointed Registrar for the electoral district of Auckland. The meeting of the creditors of A. o. Nodder, which was to have been held vesterday, lapsed for want of a quorum. A man name* Marsh, of Pabiatua, was out shooting the other day, when his gun exploded and severely injured his right ' 'The total etrength of the cadet force of "New South Wales at the end of last year was 6888, being an increase of 1204 for the

Owinc to Herr Schmitfc being detained at the "Opera House, Mr. G. A. Paque conducted the rehearsal of the Choral Society last night. . Mr Myer Caselberg, accompanied by Mra. Caselberg, has returned to Masterton. Mrs. Caselberg is a daughter of Mr. K. JLeesing, of Auckland. "His Honor, Mr. Justice Conolly, will leave for Gisborne to-morrow, a sitting of the Sapreme Court being fixed to be held at that place on the Bth inst. The Dobson-Kennedy Company, who open at the Opera House on Monday next, commence their season with the everpopular " Arrah-na-Pogue." The headmaster of the Masterton School mentioned a case to the school committee where a child who bad not passed the first Standard had been sent out nursing. The Canterbury Fruit-growers' Association hae decided to make enquiries with a view to forming a company for making jam, Canning fruit, and exporting raw fruit. At Napier the international tug-of-war reeulted iu a victory for the Irish team, who in the final tug pulled the Jack Tars ever the line amidst tremendous cheering. The luvercargill district local bodies are Df opinion that the hospital should be controlled solely by the Government and supported out of the consolidated revenue. The Southland County Council has unanimously resolved that the Local Authorities Audit Bill is unnecessary, and that many clauses are arbitrary mid objectionable. The hop beer sold in Wellington Iβ said to contain from three to seven per cent, of alcohol, and in Auckland as much as ten per cent It therefore comes under the Licensing Act. The harmony night for the Masonic Institute was to have been held on the ISth instant, but owing to other Masonic fixtures it has been found necessary to postpone it until tho 25th inefc. A man named Harry Whittaker Duval was arrested yesterday, charged with drunkenness, and also with obtaining £1 19s from Robert Fawcett by false pretence —namely, a valueless cheque. A Napier paper says there is evidence to show that the Wairarapa Plains were once covered with timber, and, in all probability, there was an unbroken forest where now there is open grass country. A highly effective photographic enlargement of Miss Lizzie Warren as Josephine in H.M..S. Pinafore, is on view at Mr. Wildman's, Shortland-street. It is a characteristic likeness finished in Mr. Charles Hemus well-known style. According to a letter in a recent issue of the Bush Advocate a miner travelling to Napier a fortnight ago lost £240 by the "confidence trick." The trickster is believed to be one of a gang of Sydney "magsmen" who never do anything but watch boats and trains.

A Wellington telegram says: — The Union Steamship Company hare decided to despatch the s.s. Takapuna at eight o'clock on Friday morning for New Plymouth ami Onehunga to enable visitors to reach Auckland in time to witness the Aackland-Taranaki football match.

The Pahiatua paper records a somewhat remarkable occurrence. It says that two valuable horses running in a paddock near Mr. Burling's homestead at Alfredton were fatally injured in one night by a Eig that was running at large, aud which ad always been considered a very quiet animal.

It is stated that the Farmers' Association in Canterbury, a meeting of which was held the other day, hope to be able to control most of the country electorates at the next election, owing to the widespread feeling against the progressive land tax and the provision by which mortgages cannot be deducted.

The whole of the Maori exhibits in the new annexe of the Auckland Museum are now pretty well arranged and in position, but it will take some time to arrange and place the foreign exhibits in the show cases. The enclosure in front, which has been railed in, is now beinc: planted with New Zealand shrubs and some fine foliage plants. In addition to the drafts of men sent to different parts of the colony there are now 370 men on the books of the Labour Bureau at Christchurch requiring employment. During last month twenty men have been engaged as rabbiters. Drafts of a similar number have been sent to Hanmer Plains, Bealy, Catlins, and the North Island. The Wairarapa W&ekly says :— There are reported to be a large number of children in Masterton too poorly clad to attend school. Numbers of these miserable, barefooted youngsters roam the streets—uncontrolled by the parents and a discredit to our town. In most cases the parents are in indigent circumstances, and cannot therefore be prosecuted by the School Committee.