NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6828, 5 October 1883, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mr. Dargaville has fluency, plausibility, and a future. Land at Cloncurry, Queensland, is celling at £100 per acre. The electric light is a great success in several Victorian mines. A synod hall is to be erected in Sydney in memory of Bishop Barker. The first number of the Freethought Review has been published. The Egmont Courier states that some of the settlers there are planting trees. In "Victoria recently, for a wager, a man skinned 438 rabbits in sixty minutes. Complaints are being made of the scarcity of labour in the country districts of Victoria. Five surveyors have left Waitara for Mokau to commence work on the Mokau block.

It is'expected that there will bB about 3000 miners on the Dark River (Vic.) goldfields tbia spring. The Waitara Press is discussing Mr. Joshua Jones' lease, and the question of opening Mokau. i...

Mrs. Hampson has been successful in Sydney. One of the papers calls her " the preacheress." Of 175,000 children of school ages in New South Wales, only 75,000 attend the required number of days. Have our local astronomers no explanation to offer of the peculiar sunsets which have been observed lately ? £8000 of capital has been subscribed for the West Coast Freezing Company, the majority in the Fatea district.

The Awakino-Mokan block is likely to be opened for settlement shortly, Mr. Brooks having been appointed to survey it. The Opotiki Herald reprints in full the paper of Mr. Justioe Gillies, read before the Auckland Institute, on the manufacture 1 of sorghum sugar. During the last six years the National Shipwreck Society of New South Wales has distributed over £3000 amongst widows, orphans, and disabled eeamen.

_ .Babbits have increased at an alarming rate in Victoria' during the last few weeks. In the Wimmera district they are breeding to an extent never before known.

Return railway tickets are to be abolished in Victoria, and a uniform' mileage rate of twopence first-class, and penny and onethird second-class, adopted. The Victorian Mining Department has received information of a remarkably rich crushing at Harrisville; 17cwt. of stone raised from a depth of 700 feet yielded SlAozs, gold. .

As a result of the starting of the local Freezing Company, the Marlborough Times learns that several hundreds of acres of land have been broken up and planted with turnips.

Mr. Thomas Jones, who has been for the past twelve yearß works manager for the firm of Lightband, Allan, and Co., Christchurch, arrived from the South on Monday last to occupy a similar position for .the Northern Boot and Shoo Company in this city. -

Wells "Bough on Corns."—Ask for Wells' " Rough on Coma.". Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, wurti, bunions.—Manes. Moss and Co., Sidney, General Agents. : -