NEWS IN BRIEF.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 11, 18 August 1883, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Ture b*s. Doric left L/mcfon on the 9th inst. with 274 immigrants for Auckland j the Nelson has sailed with 344 semis for Gtago ; and the Twanalri with 340 for Canterbury*-— The Salvation Army is about to erect barvack&in Christchurch. — The Auckland City Council intend to i-nforce the operation of the- Contagious Diseases Act. — The city water supply at Auckland has been tested by Mr Pond, Government Analyst* and pronounced to be pure. — A married woman named Lindsay, was burnt to death in her house at NascVy, on Saturday night last.— -More gatherings of natives at Parihaka. are reported as being likely to take place in honor of To Whiti and Tohu. — The railway line to Paten will be opened on the 23i*d inst. with grout ceremony. — A. young man named Alexander Brady, of Auckland, is

missing, and ia 'supposed to have committed suicide.— The body of A. M. Allan, cnachbuilder, lately in the employ of Gouains.and Aitkin, Auckland;, lias, been found floating in the liarbour:.— »-A sad' , accident happened' on Monday night last 1 atr Nelsoru. The pilot-boat- went! oujt, U> the b:h. -Wanaka and put Captain Lowe on board, but subsequently,. on endeavouring ,to return,. capsized, drowning- the orew- of'four raen h u*u»ed W".M.bEi'ison t .W. Beader, ( R.. Thomas,, and Clans Jjohansem The ;two first* named leave families unprovided ;f'ir:.— The filwt Crushing afc tKp Terawhiti 'goldiiuid^ntjar Wellington^ returned 75ez ,15d*wts retorted, gold, from, 51 tons ef stouo. Hhitf in highly encouraging, jbut great disappointment lias heein. felt at the J ; result, an many sanguine shareholders ex- | Ipected* tijb least soz to the ton* — A very ' iheaivy gaJo^th^! heaviest experienced since i 1878} was felfr in- Wellington on ; Tuesday last. No, 'damage was done, however, beyond' the stranding of the kerosene .hulk. — A young man named Cottier was •killed on Wednesday last by a fall of I earth at- Ljghtband's Gully, N.elson. — By ;cable we- hear sf the deatli of Dr. Robert Moffatt,. the well-known African mis* sionari'.r* -Insurrections have occurred in '•Spain, bujb have been suppressed. — Deasey •and Hanagan,. two dynamiter-s, have been* found guilty in Liverpool, and sentenced ( to penal servitude for life. — French troops are being sont to reinforce those alreadj* <in Madagascar.— The Irish informers sent out'to Australia in the Path an, are to be 'sent back Mgiin by direction of the British Government. — Several Spanish journals have been suppressed Tor sedi tio us w ri ti n 14 ;. — The difficulty between the British and French in connection with tin; treatment of English officers of lI.M.JS. Dryn<\, is likely to be arranged amicably. Adnu'ni] Pierre, the offending commander of the French, has been, re called. — A band- of I brigands in Roumeli.i li.ive captured the Turkish. Gjovern.or o£ Sdoii'o.i, and carried him off into the iinteHor, aw u'ting ranson.. —The cholera in E^ypt is ijicreasing. — Tho, rumor of' Cctowayo's d'.uth is oontj.uJicLod. He is said to be proparing to iatl?i(c;k his en'" 1 !)))!'-! fii>.u"n.