NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6832, 10 October 1883, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Snow fell at Albury on the 13th ult., the first time foir 25 years. Railways through the sugar-pane fields of Mackay, Queensland, are mooted.

The trout fishing season, opening on the Ist October, began auspiciously in the South. A draught match is to be played between Canterbury and Otago in the beginning of November.

Indications are still in favour of one of the most bountiful harvests ever yet obtained in South Australia.

Amongßt the estates in Western Australia are blocks of ,I,B24,oooacres, I,34o,oooacres, and similar vast possessions. Mr. J. Reclmond's style of public speaking is modelled on that adopted by the beat debaters in the House of Commons.

A Cooktown telegram stakes that miners who hava returned from Port Darwin ieport that the gold prospects are not good. During the twelve months ending last June, the increase in bank advances in the colonies was no less than £9,426,341.

In Tasmania the value of the imports for 1882 was £1,670,872,-as against £1,431,144 in 1881, being £239,72S in favour of 1882. .

A company has been formed at Albany, W.A., for the purpose of insuring a sufficient supply of coals for steamers calling there. There is noine probability of a contest taking place oyer the election of the Mayor ef Melbourriu for the year beginning on November 9. ' Farming is declining", in Tosmahia.gone' of thei alleged reasons being the superior .attrac tions of mining pursuits, to which greater attention is being paid there, •