NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9186, 28 April 1893, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

*Ihk Sheriff has been put in possession of the Pahiatua Star newspaper. Deer are very plentiful in Otago this year, and some good shooting is already recorded. The Farmers' League of Canterbury intend to take vigorous action in view of the approaching general election. The Southland Acclimatisation Society distributed 190,000 trout fry to the various rivers in the district last season. Yesterday afternoon the executive of the Auckland Employers' Association held a meeting, when important business was disposed of. The Melbourne tram and 'bus returns for March, 1893, show a total less by £7074 than those of March 1892, and a decrease in number of passengers' of 626,391. The London Gaiety Burlesque Company, 87 in number, left by the Tarawera yesterday for Wellington. Their departure was witnessed by a large number of people who thronged the wharf. The Mayor of Christchurch, Mr. Eden George, has applied to the Inspector of Police for a constable to be in attendance at the meetings of the City Council with Instructions to keep order. There are 60 selectors in Hawke's Bay land district in arrears, representing £458. Those in arrears comprise eighteen on deferred payment, thirty-five perpetual lease, three miscellaneous, and four small runs. The arrears are to be called up forthwith. A market-day service is to be held to day in the City Hall from half-past one to halfpast two o'clock. This meeting is in the interest of the large number of country settlers who visit Auckland on Fridays. Pastor James Blaikie will give an address. The Commissioner of Crown Lands, Mr. Mueller, offered for sale at the Lands Office yesterday about 60 tons of growing flax, situated on a creek adjoining section 24, parish of Maramarua ,at an upset price of 2s per ton, but there being no bid the lot was passed in. In the course of a lecture at Christchurch the other night, Dr. C. M. Morton said he found that among children nervous diseases, such as headache, neuralgia, nervous exhaustion, sleeplessness, and diseases of the blood, such as anaemia, were the result of borne lesson work. The Tuapeka (Otago) Hospital trustees have refused to accept the resignation of A Dr. Withers, their medical officer, but in recognition of the splendid services he has rendered to the institution for IS years have granted him leave to visit the old country on private business. No fewer than 120 applications have been filed by the Medical Officer of the Wellington Hospital from young ladies in various parts of the colony who are anxious to become nurses in the institution. The number is so large that Dr. Ewart has decided not to file any more applications. An invention has been patented in the colony by Mr. R. Miller Brechin for the adaptation of the penuy-in-the-slob principle to the purposes of insurance. His idea is to have machines placed about the wharves and railway stations, with their mechanism so arranged that the intending insurer, by inserting his penny, can obtain a ticket, properly dated, insuring him to the extent of £100 against accidental death for a journey not exceeding 200 miles, or tgainsb accident at his day's work.