NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8796, 9 February 1892, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A 370z nugget was recently found on the Percy River, Queensland. A Ballirat man committed suicide because he bad some money left to him. ' The total quantity of sugar exported from Queensland cinco June lost is 28,669 tons. In Chmtchurch Mrs. Stanley received a beautiful gift of ostrich feathers grown near that city. . A Chinese cook at Teviofc station. Utago, was kicked in the abdomen by a horse, and died an hour afterwards. A delegate of the Knights of Labour is nov. <:.Vb!ishing Assemblies of the organisation, "ii the West Coast. A meeting of creditors in the estate of \Vm. Theodore Haultain, master mariner, convened for yesterday, lapsed for want of a quorum. The Dunedin City Fire Brigade have sent an invitation to the United Fire Brigades' Association to hold the 1893 demonstration in Dunedin. If the Brisbano to Normanton Railway is constructed, Queensland will bo ablo to boast of being the first colony to connect any two sides of Australia by rail. Mr. Thomas Bracken, the Maoriland poet and an Irishman, recently told a Sydney reporter that the Scotch were the only persons who really liked poetry. The Post says :—A Special Settlement Association, consisting of 40 residents of To Aro has just been formed, and it is proposed to take up 8000 acres near WellingtoThe Kaiapoi Milling Company has purchased new oats at Sefton at Is 6d per bushel ■ new wheat, at a Southern station, at 3s 6.1; and grass seed, at from '-is 3d to William Crooks, a lad of 14 years, fell off a dray loaded with coal which he was driving at Aahburton. Tho wheel passed over his loins, and ho died a quarter of an hour afterwards. Bradley and Co., tho well known and popular 'livery stable keepers and coach proprietors, are now erecting large and extensive stables at Wai hi, in order to meet the demands of the tourist traffic. There was again a great scarcity of tenders at the last meeting of the Clutha Couity Council, so much so that some road works, for which tenders have repeatedly been called had to bo abandoned for the present. . , _, The Hawke's Bay Herald says:—" Tho editor of tho new Wellington journal will be Mr. O. M. Rood, formerly of the Auckland press, and more lately of the Australian Star. The Hon. Mr. Reeves will, it is said, be one of the staff." Seven clergymen at Wanganui have signed a protest and appeal in regard to keeping the Sabbath, which appears in the Chronicle. They refer specially to the desecration of the day by means of the head* railway excursions and the boat on the river. Mr. Thomas Emmerson, of Waiorika Junction, claims to have discovered an effective means of coping with the rabbit pest. He has entered into communication ■with the various Australasian Governments with the object of securing a bonus for his Invention. The Wairarapa Daily declines to exonerate the police from blame for the deplorable failure of justice which it says has taken place in regard to the Pahiatua poisoning case. It urges Government to appoint a special commission of competent persons to conduct a further inquiry. The Catholic Times pays:—" When the ventilating apparatus in the Wellington Opera House is working the frequenters of the dress circle are smitten down with frost-bites, when it is not working they are carried out with heat apoplexy. We only mention these facts ; we don't dare to object to them." The temperance party in Invercargul are making elaborate preparations to welcome Mr. E. Tennyson Smith, the " Second Gough." The clergy are to be asked to forego their week-day evening services during the proposed temperance mission week, and tho churches and Sunday-schools are to co-operate. The Bruce Herald has been informed that n rich deposit of silver ore has been turned up within a few miles of Milton. The discoverers are naturally rather reticent, and do not care to give away a good thing. The ore has. however, been submitted 60 a competent analyst, who pronounced it genuine, good, and payable. This is how the Hawke's Bay Herald puts it:—Mr. Buick in his travels continues to assert that the present " Liberal" Government is the first since Sir George Grey's Ministry. In that case the Stout-Vogel-Ballance combination was not a " Liberal" Government, and as Mr. Ballance was kicked out by Sir George Grey, and is the Premier at present, Mr. Buick eeema to be proving a little too much.