NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7975, 15 June 1887, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

"Earl Cairns, who has been on a visit to New Guinea, has returned to Sydney. The Government Statist of Victoria places 'the population of that colony at 1.012.405. - It is believed by some that the Melbourne Centennial Inhibition will entail an expenditure of £100,000. The Chinese Commissioners stated in Melbourne that religious principles stood in the Way of 'Introduoinc railways into China. The 21st and 22nd of June will be proclaimed public holidays in Tasmania, in celebration of the Jubilee. 4 The Premier of Victoria has intimated to Sir H. Loch that the Victorian Government do not desire any change in the title of the Queen. The Taranaki Acclimatisation Society have just received from Christehurch a quantity of young peroh and 3000 American brook trout ova. An old scissors grinder named Clarke, 70 years of age, who has been found dead in Kyneton, Victoria, iff believed to have died while defending himself from native cats. Lady Carrington has written to the Mayor of Sydney asking him to call a public meeting to form a " Queen's Fund," to assist indigent women, in commemoration of the Jubilee. In Monday's issue it was stated in a reference to the statistics of the New Zealand Constabulary, that there was one policeman to every 126 of population. It should have been to "every 1265." A load of limestone from the Mokan has been received at the Henui works, New Plymouth, via Waitara. It is the first load of this material that has been brought to new Plymouth from Mokaa. It is stated that the relatives of the late Mr. E. S. Parkes, who was killed in the Windsor railway accident, have declined the offer made by the Railway Commissioners of £26,000 compensation on the ground that the sum is not sufficient. At; Thargomindah the other day a man named James Campbell tripped and fell into a kitchen fire, upsetting two large buckets of boiling water upon him. The man was terribly scalded, and the shock has almost driven him out of his mind. Captain Edwin advised yesterday, at a quarter past one p.m., as follows:—"'Bad weather approaching between north and west and south-west. Glass will further fall, but rising after twelve hours from now. Indications of more raio." As one means of celebrating the Queen's Jubilee, Mr. James Russell, M.L. A., Mayor of Ballarat East, has placed 100 loads of firewood at the disposal of the Mayoress for distribution among poor widows and indigent families daring the winter. Owing to a mistake in the list supplied to the handieappers of the starters for the Jubilee Five-mile Race from Onehucga to Farnell, to be run on the 21st inst., the name of A. F. Burton was omitted. His handicap Is set down at 1J minutes. It- is stated that in one of the recent thunderstorms in the Lake Country, Lake Rotokakahi rose and the water forced a passage through the sand into the line of the old creek, and that the water is now flowing down over the line of the old Wairoa Falls, into Lake Terawer3. A Southern paper point 3 out what has to be done to become entitled to vote, and adds : Before seeking to be enrolled, it would be well for every would-be elector to ask himself whether he is qualified to exercise his vote for his country's benefit; if not, it would be far better for himself and the country if he remains as at present."