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NEWS IN BRIEF.

INTERPROVINCIAL. The railway refreshment rooms at Hawera are in course of construction, and are eipected to prove a great convenience to the travelling public. A large bacon-curing factory, with up-to-date machinery and appliances, is about to be erected at Fitzroy, a suburb of New Plymouth. A Nelson mother was scrubbing underneath a bed a day or two ago, when she heard a thud, and on withdrawing herself from underneath the bed to ascertain the cause, was just in time to save the life of her seven-months-old baby, which had fallen head foremost into the bucket of water. Sergeant M'Ardle, formerly of Masterton, and now stationed at Nelson, has been presented with a framed illuminated address from the residents of Masterton, recording their appreciation of his services. The jubilee of Oddfellowship of the Manchester Unity Order in Njslsou was celebrated by a. church parade last Sunday. " Not quite ruined yet," said a Blenheim farmer after the recent flood. " Three times I have sown my land with seed this season, but I will do it again." Objection is being raised by Taranaki settlers to the proposal of the Taranaki County Council to reimpose a wheel-tax. INTERCOLONIAL. A disease is prevalent among the fish in the Lachlan River at Condobolin, and large numbers of dead fish, ranging from one to fifty pounds in weight, are to be seen. The proprietor of the Tweed (N.S.W.) Advocate recently spent a fortnight in gaol for the non-payment of costs in a libel case. An Old woman named Ada Robinson, who was found guilty of a breach of the Children's Protection Act, was, at the Sydney Quarter Sessions, sent to gaol for three years. The Queensland Government Bacteriologist will shortly undertake a series of tests for the destruction of rabbits by inoculation. A lad named Appleby was at Nowra, New South Wales, fined £1, with the alternative of 14 days' imprisonment, for setting fire to the grass in a seven-acre paddock. The contractor for the Mahogany Creek railway, West Australia, claims £34,000 from the Government for alterations and additions to the contract. A parcel of diamonds, weighing 450 carats, the yield of four loads of wash, has been sent from.lnyerell to Sydney. A young' woman residing at East Melbourne blew out the gas in her bedroom on retiring to bed, and was found unconscious next morning. Premierßeid has received a letter from a well-known Sydney merchant, stating that his firm ■ and his friends bad invested £500,000 in New South Wales undertakings during the last nine months. At Wallsend, N.S.W., a man named David M'Lean attempted to drown himself by jumping into an underground tank. A case of pleuro amongst cattle has been discovered in West Australia, and it is said that the disease has existed in a mild form throughout the colony for years. A youth named Brasch, while fishing off a rock at Ben Buckler, near Bondi, was washed off and drowned.

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Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 93, 10 September 1896, Page 2

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 93, 10 September 1896, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF. Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 93, 10 September 1896, Page 2