NEWS IN BRIEF.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 12, 25 August 1883, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tnrc July 'Fri^jo rnjiij' arrived in A.tfpJdftntf' on Saturday night last. — About 170 nativcp, who were proceeding to Parilmku to visit To Whiti and Tolm last week, wcie turned back at Opmiake by the Armed Oon-aiabuhry. — An immigrant by 1,,' ' )xford named MrfJuire, died at Wellington, from typhoid, fever. More of this r-essjl's pas-.cn g?rs- have been attacked. — Tin body of John Beaton, drowncl at Whangaroa, has been found. —In the Cimbridge district 28 anils of eiecttuont have been served on natives of i.he Ngatikavhata tribe. — A gumdigger named Walter Beach is mis&ing, and supposed to be drowned at Northern Wairoa- — One of the Irish informers, Joe Smith, has been identified in Melbourne, lie came there from Sydney. — A woman named Josephine Green has been arrested at Wang.mui, clmrged with murdering her infant son. — Mr Statham Lowe, late manager of Auckland railways, has been appointed to control 890 miles of railways in, Cinada.— The Elcho shield at Wimbledon was thi.s year won by Irish riflemen. — The Jvnox Presbyterian Church in Dun din is about to import an organ which is said to bd the finest ever sent to id this colony. — A meeting of about 100 urh'inpio^i d wa^ held in Dunedin, and iowaidod leprc^fut'itions of tlwir <;isc to Welling on through the Mayor. — An infant n un»d Hivvcx wis this week run o.vi by t ; i'j Wain era bus at Dovonpoit . and killed. — The new IJankruplcy Bill ha-, pi.-^ed bolh houses oL the Legislature. - Mi Shaw, a ttiid'sh missionary at Tanuitivc, i-s detained in custody by the French, j i,har<;etl with connivance with the natives, lie wiM b> dealt with by maitial law. — The cholera epidemic in Egypt is taking a frHouiable turn.— C itbolio and I'rotesfant riots hay occurred near Glasgow. A ,t>ieat many persons on both sides hive be mi !ojii>u-ly injuied. — Strained relations exits between Spain and Fiance in conse(lucnce of eh.; latter refusing to expel sowe icbel troops who fled across the border.