NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9831, 28 May 1895, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The half-holiday cases come on to-day. A movement is on foot for a night shelter for Auckland. • Larrikinism is said to be rather prevalent at Christchurch. Rumours of friction between the Governor and the Premier. A movement is on foob to form a choral society at Palmerston North. Complaints are being made of the pillage of fruit on the Hawke's Bay railway. Strained relations between the Charitable Aid Board and the Honorary Medical Staff. ~ . .. The Borough Council are ascertaining the cost of lighting the town of Palmerston by electricity. Aid Board is prepared to The Charitable Aid Board is prepared to assist private efforts for the maintenance of a night shelter. , „ r ... It is almost certain that the Wellington representative football team will play ab Napier on June 15th. v The hounds will meob on Wednesday, 29th inst., at Mr. Baker's farm, Tamaki West, beyond Harris'. t .. .-, , The House Surgeon reports that 77 male and 23 female patients are being treated in the Auckland Hospital. The proposed memorial to the late Archdeacon Dudley, of Rangiora, is being steadily pressed forward. William Styles, aged 103, has been sent to gaol by a Melbourne magistrate lor six months on a charge of vagrancy. Over 6000 bales of wool were carted into Oamaru this season. This is said to be the largest number of bales carted in any season. A minor named Weston Edwards fell down a 70ft shaft ab Cugong (N.S.W.), and he is not expected to recover from his injuries. Owing to friction between the parties the conference between the Auckland Hospital Board and the Medical Staff has been postponed indefinitely. Two little girls, twins, aged 3J years, found some arsenic in Goulburn and ate portion of the poison. One of them has died, and the other is seriously ill. Just before the delivery of the Budget Speech, in anticipation of a duty, enough tea was taken into Broken Hill to last the community two years. While in a state of insanity Mr. W. E. Meeks, owner of Cardiff Station, Bolton, Queensland, wandered away from his home, He was found a mile away with his throat cut, and died shortly afterwards. The tone of a letter from the Honorary Medical staff referring to the past management of the Auckland Hospital is strongly resented by the Board, who have resolved that the staff be requested to withdraw the letter.

A fatal accident is reported from Launceston. A man employed on the electric light works, while standing near the tramline, was struck by a runaway truck and knocked over a precipice, falling thirty feet among some boulders. Two rival drapers named Jones and Brook, appeared in the Adelaide Court recently, and one of them recovered £75 damages for assault. The parties quarrelled while watching a cricket match between their respective employees. At Bathurst a man named Joseph Young was charged with grievously harming Daniel Brown during a drunken qiuarrel at Perth. He was discharged. Brown, who is apparently dying of paralysis, declares that it was his own fault, as he was the

aggressor. A correspondent ab Palmerston North writes :—A solemn requiem is to be offered in St. Patrick's Church, Palmerston North, for the late Father Downey. His many food and virtuous qualities were well known and admired by his many friends in the Manawatu. The Indian immigrants who lately arrived at Suva from Calcutta, and who were placed in quarantine owing to measles having broken out amongst them on the voyage, are progressing as favourably as can be expected. No fresh cases have been reported for over a week previous to the Fiona leaving for Auckland. At Wollongong Alfred Eric Arkins has been committed for trial on a charge of bigamy. From the evidence adduced, it appears that he married Catherine Regan at Hay in ISS9, and then married Margaret Robinson at Wollongong last year, since when he is said to have married a woman in Taree, and another at Ballina. The local justices of the peace at Corowa, New South Wales, met a few days ago to give a cordial farewell to Mr. T. A. Browne (Rolfe Boldrewood), who has been the district police magistrate for many years past, and who is about retiring. Handsome references were made to Mr. Browne's unvarying urbanity and obliging disposition, and to his pleasant association in Court work with the honorary magistrates during bis tenure of office at Corowa.