NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9134, 16 August 1888, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Ik Brisbane recently, 5000 Mount Morgan Bhares were sold for £75,000. Over £500 have been collected in Adelaide in aid of the sufferers by the recent floods in Germa'ny. The new works ab the Mount Morgan mine were started recently, and are reported to be working splendidly. Mr. Stratton refuses to adopt the eighb hours' system at his Echuca (Vic.) flourmill, and the trade societies have decided to boycott his flour throughout Victoria. A Royal Commission has been appointed in South Australia to consider the desirability of establishing a Government bank. Mr. Inglis says that the whole curriculum of the Sydney Technical College need? revision and a radical change to be effected. The reefs in the deepest workings at Croydon are reported to be looking better than ever. 20,000 tons of quartz have been raised. • Bush fires in the Wollongong district have done enormous damage, thousands of acres of grass having been consumed, and fencing, timber, and outbuildings de- ; Btroyed. . CullensviUe is the new name given by the diggers to the encampment on top of the Mahakipawa Valley, on the right or east bank of the -creek, and Greggtown the other side. A syndicate of Sydney capitalists have purchased a large area of coal properties near Lake Illawarra, and intend to convert the lake into a harbour suitable for vessels of large tonnage. The South "Australian Government has telegiaphed to the Colonial Office asking whom they think of appointing Governor, so that if "there is any objection it may be made known in time. The Rev. Alfred Honner has opened communication with the Commissioner of Crown Lands in South Australia on behalf of a svndicate. whose object is to settle about 15,000 persons on the vacant Crown lands in that colony. In Melbourne Lady Loch is collecting funds to bring from England a lady competent to give instruction in a new method of sewing, by which quicker and better results may be obtained in a shorter time than by the old way. A Scandinavian boy at Woodville being asked how the people of that place got alons: so well, gave the following reply : — " You must work hard : you must get all de moneys ; yon must not pay for notings ; and files your shovel — to your Wife." . A prospecting party is being organised at Cooktown for 12 months' work in NewGuinea. It i= expected that more advantageous arrangements will be allowed under I)r. MacGregor than hitherto. The party is expected to consist of fully 50 practical miner?. Among the occupant? of the police cell last night was an old man named Thomas Howard, who had been arrested while in a very drunken state by Constable Martyn, on a charge of stealing a clock, valued at 7s 6d, belonging to a Mrs. Gamble, of Swanson-street. In Sydney a combined committee, representing* the various branches of the iron trades is now taking steps to start a co-operative iron works, with the view of takinc up large Government contracts, whicl? it! is alleged the present employers are too apathetic to compete for successfully. Yesterday afternoon three youths, named Reuben Saunders, George baunders, and Harold McKe:izie, were brought over to the police-station from the North Shore by Serjeant Gliies, having been taken into cusfody or a charge of having wilfully damaged » survey block at. Devonport, the property of the Borough Council. The special services in connection with Bt. John's Church, Ponsonby Road, were continued last evening, when the schoolroom was again crowded with worshippers. Addresses were delivered by the Rev. C. H. Garland, and students from Three Kings College. Many enquirers made their way into the enquiring room, and increasing interest was manifested throughout the meeting. It is expected there will be a large attendance this evening.