NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8316, 24 July 1890, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

(Edward Morrow, draughtsman, has filed his schedule. ... „ ,c Tr Captain Edwin predicts Is. tot. and b.t. pale with rain. William Cooper, a carter, filed Ins •Schedule yesterday. Wanaweona Station, near Bourke, has ('been sold for £8600 in Melbourne. Comimny formed in Brisbane to work important) tin discoveries near Toowoomba. Some interesting cab cases are expected ■;nt the Resident Magistrate's Court, to day. : St-anbury and Kemp, and probably Beach, 'intend to visit America next year for glory rtuid dollars. _ Sir Henry Partes has received letters of sympathy from Italy. Switzerland, South Africa and Cootamundra. The question of legalising the eight-hour •movement is engaging the attention ot the /South Australian Parliament. The first census of New South \\ ales and Tort Phillip was taken on July It'.. 1811. The combine*.! population was loo.Bf>t>. A prisoner named McDonald, in endeavouring to escape from Nyngan Gaol, }\.s. fell over a fence, breaking his L Twenty six thousand three hundred and seventy-three tons of sugar were exported from Queensland during the \ear ending June-0. -ti, i The only occupant of the look-up last 'evening was a seaman from the sll ip Lai go ? Bay, charged with a breach of the Police Offences Act. John Hayes, the outside foreman at the 'Scene of the railway accident, Penshurst -(Victoria), has been committed for trial for {manslaughter. During the passage of the schooner Cale 'donia from Sydney to Port Stephens, a bailor named John Anderson fell overboard 'and was drowned. Installation of officers of Lodge Eden (Masonic) on Tuesday night. The D.G.M., I'.C., and officers of the District Grand lodge were present. Argument in the interpleader case Lindsay v. Ward was heard by the Resident. Magistrate yesterday and judgment was reserved until to-day. Mrs. .lane Patterson, who died last week tit Panmure, left 8 children. •>- grandchildren and 'J."> great-grandchildren, in all So descendants to mourn her departure. The trades unionists of Broken Hill caution unskilled labourers from seeking :*-ork on the field, as there are .>OO unemployed there ju?t now. barring policemen. The Queensland Railway Commissioners have decided to employ females as switchboard attendants in connection with the Telephone Exchange, and in other branches .where the work is light. A deputation from the Federated Masons of Australia has waited on the \ ictorian 'Commissioner for Public Works, asking that, steps be taken to abolish the practice ■of sub letting Government contracts. In South Australia the total area of land under cultivation is 'J.mU.NTT acres, being an increase for five years ot about 80.000 'acres. The number ot cattle and sheep .are less than was previously estimated. " Blasphemous. Socialistic. Communistic. and Nihilistic incendiaries !" ♦Such were the terms bestowed upon the headers of the unemployed in the Victorian House on the loth inst. by Mr. Patterson. A little girl, who was lost in the bush at j Nuggety Gully, near alcha. New South J "Wales, was found alive, after being four days in the bush without food. She had | nothing on but a print tires#, and a dog find a goat kept her company the first two davs. '

At the thirty-sixth half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the (Queensland National Bank, to be held at Brisbane on the *24 th instant, the directors will recommend the declaration of a dividend at the rate of ]'2 per cent, per annum, carrying forward .•£16,171 to next halt-year.