NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hastings Standard, Issue 74, 22 July 1896, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The prize list for the next Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Show is an excellent one, totalling over JEtiOO. Upwards of 150,000 cases of apples are exported from Nelson every season. This represents a monev value of no less than £30.000. It is estimated that this year New South Wales will produce 315,000 tons of sugarcane, Yielding 40,000 tons of raw sugar, worth" £375,095. It is said that overtures have been made to Colonel Fox by the Japanese Government, and a strong inducement made to accept service there. Owing to the scarcity of Committee reporters, it is stated a lady shorthand writer lias been engaged to report the proceedings of the Legislative Council .Banking Committee on behalf of the Council. Recently an accident occurred at Twigg and Co's sawmill. Toko, Taranaki, a man named Leydon having liis leg broken through a piece of timber at which lie was working with a jack, falling against it. And strange to say, an exactly similar accident happened next morning to Leydon's son, a lad of 17, leading to just the same consequences. emisually severe frosts are being exd in many parts of New South Wales. Early risers in Sydney enjoyed •1 sight of exposed water coated with ice. and in some more of the elevated suburbs the ice was an inch thick. Further heavy snowfalls have occurred in the highlands. A party of thirteen men were caught in a storm in the wild country in the upper Murray district, and spent a terrible night. Almost frozen, they wandered about for "22 hours before they discovered the track. A young Url <n d n imed Jajnes Templeton wi c ornatcl t Milton last week of drunkenness and riotous behaviour. The evidence of Constable Kinp and -Tolm Tt accused's father) showed that 1 'cut home drunk. His father told 1 t le quiet, when be knocked his pr i, and kicked him on the body. \ I had threatened his mother often, 1 e would cut her throat. When the constable arrived at the house accused was chasing his parents and two sisters with a hoe in his hand, threatening their lives, and using filthy language. The accused was fined £5 or a month "in gaol; but it seems to us the cat-o'-nine-tails is the proper instrument to use on such scoundrels as this viciou9, lazy, drunken fellow evidently is. A fine, or a short period in gaol, does not have anything like a deterrent influence on such as he as the lash would. The reintroduction of the cat in certain classes of the criminal category is to be desired, — Exchange.