Bevitics.

Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8617, 23 March 1897, Page 3

Bevitics.

Captain Argall returned to Auckland from a trip to Sydney by the s.s. Tasmania yesterday. Last Sunday evening Dr O'Caltaghan gave some forcible advice from tho pulpit of Pt George's as to how mistresses should treat their servant %

In connect ion with the new mining bureau which is to be established, Mr Patrick Galvin, of the " Haweri Post," has been appointed secretary. In the first announcement thiri gentleman's name Mas imfuscd with that of Galbraith. Mr Galrin is the author of the *' Mining Guide," which was compiled under the auspices of the Hon. Mr Larnaeh when Minister of Lands and Mines in the Stont-Vogel Go>eniment.

We learn that Mr Edward Corbett, aged 20, son of Mr E. M. Corbett, the wellknown mining engineer at Waifokauri, died early yesterday norning at Waite-1 kauri of typhoid fever. Ihree other members of the family are laid up with the some disease. Much sympathy is felt UpCountry for the family. At the Auckland Supreme Court yesterday the case Jas, McCrea Brighnm v Eobt. Comer, a claim for transfer of 2350 shares and a counter claim between the same parties, Comer v. Brigham, v/as called on and adjourned until the June sittings on the npplication of Mr Cooper, who appeared for dcfendant.^-Mr Cooper said that a-Very material witness for the defence was absent from the colony,—Mr Campbell, for Mr Brigham. s»id that he was prepared for the case to go to trial, but he would offer no objection to Mr Cooper's request.