NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6564, 30 November 1882, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A company is being formed in Brisbane for the introduction of the electric light. Queensland has two immigration lecturers iu Kngland, each receiving £5-10 per annum. The lirisbane Municipal Council lias decided to borrow i'oooo for the construction of ii market. Aγ eighteenth of a third share in tin , new l.allmiore coal-mine, near Dr.bbo, recently changed hands for I'ooO. Owing to the absence of water, tho overland trade with the interior of Queensland is at present impracticable except by means of camels. A snake of the mallee species was recently killed near Hillston, N.S.W.,which measured Ki feet 7 inches iu length, and the stomach contained two opossums. A thousand acres of land have been granted by the Queensland Parliament to John McKay, discoverer of the L'ioneer River, and £1000 to the widow of Dr. Challiucr. The new Masonic Hull for the Grand Lodge of Xew South Wales will be the largest Masonic Hall in Australia, and the building will be opened in June next. The Timaru Herald says: —"Mr. TJryce thoroughly meant what he said ; but 'the natives did not mean what they said, and are now only too anxious to unsay it." A co-operative butchering company was started last week at Armidae, X.S.W*. and meat was reduced to ljd per lb. by other butchers on the day the company started. Mr. KUery, the Government "astronomer, I in reply to a number of anxious inquirers, . predicted that there would be a heavy fall of r:iin before :? o'clock on Cup Day, and he proved correct. At the l'luenix Hotel. Ceeloug. a rat-pit has been made, in which owners of terrier dogs are invited to train their pets to catch the rodents. The proprietor advertises that he will give 2s per dozen for rats. About 1,000,000 acres of magnificent grazing country, well watered, have been discovered by MeKae and party at Ashburton, Western Australia, 300 miles from the coast. The land was speedily t ikon up. Mr. .lames Greenwood. M.A., a Sydney journalist, died at his residence, I'addiugtou, on Sunday evening, from an overdose ot chlorodyne. Tbe deceased was forty-nine years of age, and waa formerly a liaptist minister. The whaling season at Albany lias been unusually successful; the ship Califorman having killed lifty-fivo sperm whales, and eighty-seven of other kind?, and Mr. Goswold has made twenty-eight tuns ami a half of sperm oil m five weeks' cruising. At the Sydney Insolvent Court, an insolvent publican at Windsor, named Wi'liam Norris, admitted having gambled at the rate of i.IOOO a year for the past two years that he had lost £200 iu a single night at hazard, and £-J."O m one clay in July by tossing with pennies. A contemporary states that the late Mr. Seaton, after undergoing great suffering from a dangerous malady, which appeared beyond the scope of medical skill, resorted to the Hot Springe of the North Island, with the result that a wonderful cure waa effected,