NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9488, 18 April 1894, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Popular concertrin the City Hall this evening. ' The Wellington Typographical Society has been registered as a Trades Union. The offices of the Collector of Customs and Secretary of Cuntoms are to be combined in South Australia. The Victorian railway returns for the last quarter show a falling off, compared with the same quarter of 1893, of £19,847. Lambs have begun to make their appearance in Canterbury already, the firsb of the season being reported from Mr. Rutherford's farm at Pine Grove. During the March quarter 17,917 tons of stone were crushed at Gyrnpie, Queensland, for 21,4220z of gold. The dividends were £40,083 and the calls £20,518. A coloured diver died ab Darnley Island recently through diving in deep water. All the pearling boats have left IS'ew Guinea waters around Daru, and are returning to work on the old ground. While on the Hinewaka Mountain, in the Wellington province, the other day, Mr. Donne found a number of large leg bones of the moa. Sir Jainen Hector intends to exhibit them at the next meeting of the Wellington Philosophical Society. Some Maoris on the Mohaka (Hawke's Bay) Beach made a nice little " haul" after the late gale, in tho shape of a barrel of whisky, some boxes of fruit, and a quantity of. biscuits. Where the articles came from is nob known, bub they had probably formed part of the supplies belonging bo the i.'recian Bend.