NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9123, 3 August 1888, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

In Christchurch public buildings are not to be let again for glove lights _ There are at present 130 incurable patients in the hospitals of the colony. A. schoolmistress at Kakanui broke her arm at the skating rink, Kakanui, recently. Every exhibition has a name. The one in Melbourne is to be known as " The Australeries." It is stated that a Mr. Millear has patented a machine for holding a sheep whilst being shorn. In the South some valuable cows have been killed by the laying of rabbit poison bv inexperienced persons. "A woman named Ann Eliza McGinn was admitted to the Hospital yesterday, sufferin0 * from a fracture of the leg. ° ruff,'' in the Wellington Press, supposes that "when the members of the House have done pro-fooling the}* will prorogue. , . , , It is stated that there are swarms of trout in the Oreti Kiver. A Gore resident recently saw as many as '-'00 in one pool at Mavora. . ... Spurious 11 or ins were in circulation on the racecourse at Christ church at the Grand National Meeting. They were poor imitations. . A Wellington firm are publishing an indexed list of the duties and exemptions of the present tariff for the convenience of business men. Captain Edwin wired at 11.20 a.m. yesterday " Expect north-east to north and west gale soon, and heavy rain. Glass will further fall. Indications are bad. Rabbits in the Tnturau and Riverton districts have been found to be suffering from a disease apparently the same as that investigated by Professor Thomas. Mikado is to be performed in the Theatre Royal, Christchurch, next week, by the Amateur Comic Opera Company, in aid of the Magdalen Asylum, Mount Magdala. Mr. Gordon, 'inspecting Engineer of Mines, considers the centrifugal pump dredges that have been got on the West Coast are mere toys, not half large enough for the work they are required to do. A Christchurch paper states that the police have obtained information that the escaped convict Roberts was seen in the neighbourhood of the south of Timaru a short time a£o. Mr. Michael McKeefry, a Greymouth policeman, 6ft. Sin. toll, recently married .Miss Mary M'Alery, whose height is sft. lliu. As a rule "tall men marry short women, and rice versa. In the higher regions of Central Otago and the Lakes district the depth of snow is reported to be the heaviest for nearly 20 years. Disastrous floods are expected to follow in the watershed of the Molyneux. Sensationalism in the pulpit seems to be all the rage in Napier, where the Rev. J. Edwards" was announced to preach on " Broutrhton v. Airini Ton ore. ' These are the disputants in the great Renata will case. In the lock-up last evening there was one case of drunkenness, and a man named "George Sawyers' 1 or "George Evans,' on a charge "of stealing a quantity of tobacco from the shop of Mr. Cox, in Queen-street. Mr. T. Kirk, F.R.M.S., in a paper rsad before the Wellington Philosophical Society, stated that in his opinion the mole cricket, if it were allowed to increase, would become a pest to agriculturists. He recommends that- energetic steps be taken to eradicate it.

"Abominably fat mutton, too fat for anybody but an Esquimaux too eat," is an exchange's description of a 10-months old hogget (by an English Leicester ram out of a half-bred ewe! which, when dressed, •weighed ISOlb. and the inside fat on which was '201bs. The outcome of the famous stonewall debate (says the Otago Daily Times) appears likely to be to a large extent satisfactory—much more satisfactory to the great majority of the people of Ot-ago, we venture to think, than would have been the passage of Mr. Pyke's Bill. A Melbourne gentleman, writing to a relative in Christchurch, states that Baron Rothschild and Sons have already invested seven millions of money in land in that colony, and their agents are buying up a great quantity of the available land that comes into the market. The punishment for certain offences under the Roman law was to sew up the scoundrel in a bag with a cock and a viper, and to throw him into the Tiber. This, hints a Dunedin paper, is what should be done to the Hon. R. Campbell for his action against the Ot-ago Dock loan. A correspondent writing from Round Hill, in Otago, says the cost of living to a Chinaman is at least 10s per week, although he eits nothing but a little pork or bacon with his race. When they are making anything like good wages they spend from r >- to "20s per week on food, whereas the average European miner, even at Round Hill does not spend more than Sa or 9s per week on his food and tobacco.