TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1900, 3 July 1890, Page 14

TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

The first batch of books Lave arrived from England, purchased by Sir G. Grey to form a students' library in connection with the Auckland library. The works are in all branches of science. The foundation of this library will cost Sir G. Grey £200 or £300. At a meeting of the Wellington college governors beld on Thursday 26th ult it was resolved - " That, on account of the financial position, it is at once necessary to reorganise Wellington College" During the discussion it was pointed out that six years ago there were 60 boarders and 180 boys at the school, whereas at present there were only 10 boarders aud 95 boys. The tuition fees bad dropped from £2065 in 1883 to £1291 at the present time. Illegal Sale of Thout.— lnstances hying occurred of Lake Wakatipu trout (frozen) being Hold out of season in Ohrierehnrcb, tho Canterbury Acclimatisation Society have decided to prosecute the persons doing so in future. At the Timaru sessions a jury of four awarded £600 damages to Winter, an employe of the Atlas Flour Mill, for the loss of a thumb by an accident brought about by the person in charge setting him to clear an elevator aud then starting i'j without warning him. The Native Land Commissioner has been sitting at Gisborne to consider Charles Seymour's application re the Wbaogaua block. An agreement was come to between the applicant and the Natives whereby Seymour, who has spent £16,000 ot the blook, wets a title to 4000 acres of uuimproved laud, aud is allowed a leaso of 3000 acres where the homestead is situated, on payment of Is per acre. The commusion will issue a report on the cane, and impending legislation before the Priw Councill will be stopped. Bowron's wool washing works at Woolston, North Canterbury, were burnt down on Saturday morning. Insurance, £445 in the Phce-ix Company, who are partially reinsured in the Victoria, Colonial, and North German offices. Mr Justioe Denniston heard' a peculiar case at Timaru, A father sought to force his married daughter to complete the transfer of a deferred payment section of six acre?, taken up by her but made over to him by written agreement shortly after, and he had completed the payments for it and used it. The daughter aljeged that the agreement was fraudulent. The judge found this disproved, but took time to consider whether a transfer was barred by the provisions against dummying. Kaiwhare, a Native, charged with murdering Mb wife, up the Waitotara river, was committed for trial on Saturday for manslaugher. Bail was allowed. . The Auckland Acclimatisation Society are making inquiries as to the cost of introducing tfie Tasmanian crab and the swamp quail. The former is said to run from 151b to 201b and to be excellent eating. The agent of the Union Steam Ship Company at Sydney _h»s offered to use his best endeavours ior the introduction of Sydney prawns, and the offer has been accepted. Mr F. M. Burt, a member of the committee, has offered to raise a fund from sportsmen and others to introduce a fresh strain of pheasants. He holds that the diminution of pheasants is owing to inbreeding, and the society is agreeable to this course being adopted. In the Supreme Court, Wellington, before the Ohief Justice and a special jury, William Hanson, a boy of 14, sued W. Plunkett Cole, late master of the Te Aro School, for £505 damages for breaking his thumb with a cane in March of last year. The defence was that only moderate and sufficient chastisement was inflicted. The jury gave a verdict for the defendant. The Canterbury Industrial Association at its meeting on Tuesday night last passed ' resolutions that the Government should not manufacture commodities, but call for tenders ; that an increase of the railway rolling stock and further local storage for grain and an inquiry into the condition of the present rolling stock ih necessary. The annual meeting of the Canterbury Fruitgrowers' Association on Tuesday night re-elected Mr M. Murphy an president, and passed a resolution that every effort be made to organise a fruit export trade. Three men, George Welby, Frank Wilson, and Hugh O'Connell, wore arrested on Tuesday at Kaiapoi on suspioion of burglary at tbe Ranriora railway station. At Wellington, on Monday evening, at the close of a lecture, over which the Minister of ] Education presided, a resolution was carried urging the Minister of Education "to establish a scheme of industrial education for the colony ftTorder that our artisans may not be behind those of tbe other colonies, or even of any other countrj." The Marlborough Education Board have decided to appoint one officer as iuspeefcor and secretary, vice Mr Robinson (late secretary) and Mr Hodgson (inspector) who have resigned. Mr F. C. Faulkner, 8.A., of the Christchuroh Boys' High School, has been appointed head master of the High School at Perth, Western Australia. The salary is £400 per annum, with a large house, rent free. Mr Justice Conolly states that he will always be inclined to vrithold the certificate of discharge of those who speculate in mines if there was any opposition to the application. He advised young men, instead of speculating to confine themselves to regular matters of business. Sheep in the Waikato have increased during the last 12 months by 50,000, the number now being 215,000. Mr Quoi, of Auckland, ridicules the idea of the Chinese lowering wages, his experience being of an opposite character. He says he keeps nine cooks at his establishment, not one of these being a Chinaman. Mr Quoi says he never cooked for less than £3 to £3 10s per week, and he cannot get any of his countrymen to take less than £3, while he can get Europeans at trom 35s to 40s a week. Lung worm is causing unusual mortality amongst sheep in the Woodville distriot. The Evening Post feels justified in announcing that in a private letter received by last mail, Sir J. Vogel has declared his intention of going to New Plymouth to contest one of the Taranaki seats daring the coming elections,