NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9029, 16 April 1888, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Two more cases of small-pox are reported from Sydney. . ' . , The typhoid epidemic in Victoria has been very fatal. There were two prisoners in the lock-up last night, both for drunkenness. The partnership between W. H. Fenton and Henry Young has been dissolved. The Melbourne Y.M.C.A. have decided to erect a new building at a cost of £65,000. A class for the study of the universal language, Volapuk, has been formed in Svdney. "The number of bankruptcies which occurred in Wellington during last month 10. . The exports from Queensland during 1887 exceeded in value five and a half millions Some axles manufactured at Port Adelaide for the South Australian railways have been rejected. , Mr. James Rick it, the contractor for the Puriri-Hikutaia road, will have it finished in about two weeks. _ . No less than seven sawmills and two flaxmills are being erected on the Manatvatu line of railway. The Melbourne City Council nas resolved to have St. Kilda Road paved with wooden blocks, at a cost of £13,500. It has been estimated by competent judges that the value of the Taranaki grass seed harvest this year is £"25,000. The once formidable successor of Potatau Is a pensioner on the Government, This recalls Te Whiti's oracular saying—"The j Potato is cookfed." From March 24 till April 4 inclusive 140 cases of typhoid fever were reported to the Central Board of Health, Melbourne. Twenty-six of the cases proved fataL Mr. Seaver ha" been all through the Paroquet mine, Wainmo, and has taken assays from the main reef and hangingwall leader, and also from the tailings now in hand. The Australian nightingale, Miss Amy Sherwin, will commence her season at Abbott's Opera House on Friday evening, the 20th inst. She will be supported by a strong company. The Wellington Secretary for the Melbourne Exhibition is issuing forwarding instructions to intending exhibitors, giving full details respecting now exhibits are to be labelled and sent. The alleged eruption" at Kerikeri and Monday's exceptionally sharp earthquake shock at Wellington, both occurred on the very day on which Herr Rudolph Falb declared that there would be a probability of earthquakes and volcanic disturbances. The Minister of Public Instruction in Victoria has been . notified by the Austrian authorities that they will avail themselves of the invitation to send an expert to Victoria during the Exhibition to report on the Education Court, and on the Victorian system of Education. During the course of his address in Wellington to the jury empanelled in the case against Reuben Hind, charged With arson, his Honor Mr. Justice Richmond, in making some reference to the man George Henry Jonn Collins Dunkin, the approver, said that he had heard of better men with shorter names. A San Francisco paper says:—"Electricity will be the light of the near future of Wellington, New Zealand. The people of that city have determined to no longer sit in darkness, and have petitioned the Common Council to send out specifications for the erection and maintenance of electric lights." ______________