Sweet-briar Nuisance.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 735, 4 May 1894, Page 6

Sweet-briar Nuisance.

Sir, —I have been expecting to see in your paper a letter about the sweet-briar nuisance, because I have heard people here talking about the County Chairman’s remarks on the nuisance. All agreed that Mr Collins bad always warned the Kaikoura people about this nuisance, and that he deserved thanks for pointing out what a mistake people here are making in letting the briar grow on their land. I have seen it a great nuisance in other places, and I hope to see Mr Collins keep at the people until they do root the pest out. I am surprised that the people want so much talking to about the matter ; they wouldn’t if they heeded the advice given them. They do listen, I believe, but they are too slow to act. I am, etc., Kohai.

Sir G. Grey returns to N. Z. by the Gothic. The big - ship Somali, one of the largest British merchantmen afloat, and b tea packet, out 117 days from Hong Kong with a monster cargo of Chinese and Japanese teas, arrived in San Francisco on March 30th. Much anxiety was felt on her account. The south-east trades carried the unlucky craft into a calm expanse of ocean, where for forty days she rolled slowlv over 600 miles of smooth water. Her provisions gave out, and during the latter part of the voyage the crew subsisted on rice and tea. The diet was monotonus, but the sailors and officers grew fat on it. The carrying capacity of the Somali is 5408 tons, which is exceeded only by that of the French vessel La France. Viscount Deerhurst, eldest son of the Earl of Coventry, was married to Miss Virginia Bonyrig, step-daughter of Mr Charles William Bonyrig, of California, on March 10th, at All Saints Church, Ennismore Gardens, London, in the presence of a large number of the nobility and gentry Bonyrig, step-father of the bride, is a multi-millionaire. He worked as a market gardener in San Francisco, and his enormous fortune came by a series of lucky coups in the mining stock market in that city in the earlv seventies. He is an Englishman, and was credited with being a trooper in Lord Cardigan's Brigade when he made the famous charge at Balaclava. Some doubted this, but Bonyrig nevoa denied the statement. The London Peerage of March 30th announces the marriage of Lord Francis Hope, and May Yobe, an American burlesque actress. Hope is heir presumptive to the Dukedom of Newcastle. Yobe appears nightly at the London Lyric Theatre.