NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6712, 23 May 1883, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

i -_2500 acres have been reserved in South Gippsland for the purposes of an Agricultural College. vi: A. drunk " who "was "run in" at a Melbourne suburban Police Court the other day, 1 had a barrister to defend him. The ships Hawkesbury and Trafalgar left Sydney together, and arrived at London together, making the passage in 93 days. ■■ At the annual meeting of the Victorian Branch of the .London Missionary Society, the report submitted was highly satisfactory. . : *Dr. Crane, Bishop of Sandhurst, at present in' England, haß secured the services of a community of nuns, who are to take up their residence at Apsley House, Echuca. At the Adelaide races, Sir William Eobinson, the Governor, called Sir Thomas Elder the Lord Falmouth of Australia. Sir Thomas suitably acknowledged this compliment. The resignation of the Rev. P. Searle, for many years pastor of the Congregationaal Church, College Park, Adelaide, has been accepted, owing to his continued ill-health. In a leading article in the Timaru Herald, Mr. Wakefield discourses on the Inangahua election, attributing it to the fact that Mr. Shaw had the influence of the Government. , Judah P. Benjamin's largest single fee in England was £1000. In the United States he received as large a sum as £10,000 in a single case. Yet England is the richest country in the world. The steamer Irishman, of New Plymouth, has been in the Kawhia harbour for nearly a week, and has visited a number of settlements in the Bay, and is now loaded well with pigs, ready to take her departure for Taranaki, At the last meeting of the Dunedin City Council it was suggested that the Contagious Diseases Act should be brought into operation in Dunedin. The Dunedin Morning Herald argues against bringing the Act into force. Mr. H. Reid, of Whangarei, the successful tenderer for "the building of the bridge over the Thames river at Te Aroha, signed the contract yesterday. The work is to be pushed forward at once, and it is anticipated that _ the bridge will be completed well within time. The amount of the contract is some £5000.