NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14376, 23 May 1910, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

. An English mail, via Suez, arrived from \ t Sydney yesterday morning by th© Maheno. A meeting of the Labour party will be held ' *' on Tuesday evening to consider what steps to take in connection with the Auckland East election. William Jenner, aged 26, was thrown from a horse, and killed, while riding after ~ stock at Upper Namoi River, near Manila, (N.S.W.) last week. The Auckland Choral Society has decided Vo postpone the performance of Sullivan's Martyr of Antioch" until Tuesday, May • 51, on account of the illness of the soprano ' eoloist. ■ -i ■ ■ Captain Morton, master of the steamer Dollar, was, aC the Melbourne , Police : Court, last week, fined £200 for having ..allowed ;; two • 1 Chinese, , members of his . crew, to escape on April 26, ; ; ■» The temperance party, which last week 'purchased .. the .i rights . for • publican's booth at Lower Clarence (N.S.W.) Agricultural i Show ; for £41, netted £50 / • profit for the two days' show. Owing ,to the indisposition of Mr. T. Harle Giles, the industrial dispute between the holel employees and licensed . victuallers, set down for this morning, has been postponed until next Monday. John • Cusack, 26, died in the Bunbury (W.A.) Hospital last week from a rupture : of the bowels, ; sustained while practising ; football. In jumping for the ball ' Cusack was®- struck in the groin by an- / other player's knee, , and peritonitis super- •, " veiled. / / • In . St. James's Hall, Wellington-street, /*/// this ' evening, Mr. E. H. Buckingham, baritone vocalist and elocutionist, will appear • V ' in a varied programme of songs, recitations, musical monologue, and dramatic scena. '■>:Popular moving pictures, violin and pianoV ; forte eolo».and selections, will also form part of the programme.-• ' <-• - 1 The Art Exhibition, of which the opening was postponed from the 19th to the 25th of this month, is fully hung, and all is iri readiness. The number of works hung is much the eame as ; last year, as is also the quantity received from Southern JV; artists. ,To-day is " varnishing day," and admission can//bo obtained at the side ' entrance of ; the gallery from 1 p.m. to :( 4 p.m. -■// _ ./ - //./■ •