NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9025, 11 April 1888, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Paul Tauhere has gone up to attend the meeting at Whatiwhatihoe. There was one prisoner in the lock-up last evening—a man for drunkenness. Mr. R. T. Booth, the temperance advocate, intends to settle in Australia. !t > In the Arrow district, Otago, a few days ago, more than two feet of snow fell. J The purchaser of Kawau is a sister-in-law of Mrs. Downs Stewart, of Dunedin. Sydney now has a population of, in round numbers, 349,000 and Melbourne 392,000. South Australia is now sending three passenger and two goods trains daily to the Barrier district. Neil Matterson, the sculler, has recovered from his recent illness, ana again takes rowing exercise. The Borough Council of Bathurst has resolved to spend £150 in planting trees in the streets of that town. ' . A general meeting of the Lawn Tennis Club is to be held at the Government House on Monday next, at five o'clock. At Wyndham, Otago, a few days ago, a sheep sale was held, when 15,000 sheep were yarded, and all were sold. Miss Lydia Van Finkelstein, a lecturer on social and religious life in Palestine, has sailed from Plymouth,, per Orizaba, for an Australian tour. Foo-r gentlemen who vent shooting to Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury, had brought down in one day '258 ducks, 108 of the birds falling to one gun. Sydney stands far above all the other capitals of Australia as to numerical excess of births over deaths in last year's returns, whilst Hobart stands lowest. Typhoid fever is almost general in the Broken Hill district, caused by the overcrowding of dwellings and the neglect of common sanitary precautions. By latest files from Sydney we notice that Marototo shares were quoted as follows Paid-up, sellers 245, buyers ISs; contributing, sellers 13s, buyers lis. During last year 55,566 adults and 30,665 children visited the Sydney Zoological Gardens, in addition to 23,114 school children and 600 teachers admitted free. During the last six racing seasons the Hon. James White has received upwards of £64,000 for first places. His entire stakes winnings during the same period amount to £53,392. A number of natives from different parts of the country have gone up to attend the tangi at Whatiwhatflioe over the bones of the late King Potatau, in course of removal to Lower aikato. The body of J. F. Smith, who is said to have been well connected in Derbyshire, England, and is reported to have lost £1000 by gambling at Melbourne, has been found in the river Darling. One of the Australian gentlemen at present at the Thames saw there two fine carriage horses bred in Waikato, and at once bought them, and sent them to Auckland for conveyance to Sydney. The local option polling for Auckland during the last three-yearly period took place about the middle of May, 1885. The polling for City North took place on May 14, and the other wards subsequently. A correspondent writes that " one great danger to patients recovering from typhoid is their inordinate craving for something to eat, which they ought not to have, and the gratification of which desire means almost certain death." On the 29th of February a violent shock of earthquake was felt at Malicolo and other islands, and the same evening a tremendous eruption took place in the volcano on the Island of Ambrym, and for seven miles the country was covered with the burning lava. Several native villages have been demolished. It is not known yet whether any of the natives have perished. The sea for miles around was full of what appeared like little islands of flaky dust and lava, rendering navigation extremely dangerous.