NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9151, 5 September 1888, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A new theatre, to coets £8000, is to be built at Rockhampton. Hans the Boatman Company left for Sydney yesterday by the Tarawera. A selector had 289 sheep killed by dogs recently at Wagga Wagga (N.S.W.) Mr. T. Morrin, we are glad to learn, has considerably improved within the laiife few days. . . The lambing season in Waikato is well forward, and gives promise of a good percentage. 182 passengers left for Sydney by the Tarawera yesterday. Of these 114 were in the steerage. The occurrence of gold in limestone is unusual, but some very rich specimens have been found in the neighbourhood of Tuena (N.S.W.). It is reported that four valuable warns of coal have been discovered in the Mirdoo district of Victoria. It is stated that there is great want of rain in the Northern Territory, Australia. The season is the driest that has been known for the last ten years. In the action of Mockford and Macdonald v. the Government of Western Australia, for breach of contract, the jury have returned a verdict for the plaintiffs for £i>ooo. Edward Hanlan has received a cablegram that his son died from convulsions, and that he was not burnt to death as reported. Hanlan returns to Canada at The ironmoulders on strike in Melbourne are trying to form a Co-operative Foundry Company" and are making enquiries with the view of establishing works at Footscray. A European girl was recently arrested in a Chinese den in Melbourne. She stated she had been locked up there for three months. The girl was handed over to her The Clydesdale Stallion Chieftain,and the thoroughbred colt, Prince of Wales, left Waikato yesterday, en route for Waverlev. They have been sold to residents in that district. It is thought that if the Queensland colliery proprietors were to combine they would be able to supply from 14,000 to 15,000 tons of coal per month for outside requirements. Saturday return tickets will be issued from Friday to Monday next, from Waikato to enable visitors to attend the football match between the Englishmen and Auckland representatives. Constable Steele, watch-house keeper, Wellington, left by the Wanaka last night for Auckland, having been appointed district clerk at the Auckland police station in relief of Constable Fatten. The statement that girls work at stonebreaking at the Mount Eden works turns out to be incorrect- A number of girls go there daily with their fathers' dinners, and this gave "rise to the report. The South Australian Railway Commissioners have returned to Adelaide after an inspection of the Great Northern Railway system. They found the line in splendid order, and well and solidly laid. The Emu Plains irrigation fruit plantation, in South Australia, is making splendid regress; 153,915 vines of various kinds have been planted, and the wattle plants show most extraordinary growth. William Richards, accountant of St. Kilda, has commenced an action for £5000 for libel against the Melbourne Herald, For publishing extracts from a speech by Sir Henry Parkes and others in Parliament, reflecting on Richards' management of a certain company in Sydney. A public meeting at Broken Hill has resolved that in view of the extraordinary growth of the town, the Government be solicited to direct that a new electoral roll be at once taken, in order that 8500 persons out of 9000 at the incorporation of the municipality, should not be disfranchised. The quarterly licensing meeting of the Newmarket Committee was held at noon yesterday. There were present Messrs. Edgerley, Lumpkin, and Mason. The only application before the committee was one for a transfer of the license of the Carlton Club Hotel from John Morrison to Alfred B. Griffiths. This was granted. Requisitions in favour of farthing bids at the London wool auctions have been signed by woolgrowers representing 405,454 bales wool, the total production of Australasia in ISS7 being about 1,200,000 bales. The requisitions have been forwarded by Mr. G. N. Griffiths to the London Woolgrowers' Association. The following is the state of Her Majesty's prison, Auckland, for the week ending Sept. Ist, 188S :—On remand, 1 male ; awaiting trial, 10 males, 1 female ; boys, 4 ; penal servitude, 42 males, 3 females ; hard labour, 101 males, '20 females ; imprisonment, 1 male ; default of bail, 8 males ; debtor, 1 male ; received during the week, 14 males,3 females; discharged, 12 males, 7 females ; total in prison : 168 males, 24 females. " But for the c'nlorination process of Newbery and Vautin," says the Sydney Evening News, "There would have been 10 Mount Morgan to set the mouths of miners watering after shares in the now famous gold mine of Queensland. Scientific knowledge is not only power but wealth. What would' not New Zealand give for a process which would do for the ▼alley of the Thames what the new process has done for the mountains of Queensland ?" _