NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8879, 16 May 1892, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A Sydney Socialist advocates " ono man one rifle."

A branch of the National Liberal Association has been established at North Danedin.

A Sydney policeman shot himself because he had incurred the temporary disfavour of his superior officers. During ono month, something like 2850 hares were destroyed on the Delatite estate, Victoria. In a great number of places hares are a greater nuisance tluin rabbits. Mr. W. C. Hodgkinson, Minister of Mines in Queensland, is making inquiries in Victoria and in South Australia into the working of the Mining on Private Property Act.

The Now South Wales Minister for Works has declined to accede to the suggestion of a deputation from the unemployed to start, public works on the co-operative principle. Mr. Dibbs made a sarcastic answer to a deputation which waited on him to ask that Chinese-made furniture should be stamped. He asked, why rot go further and stamp cabbages grown by Chinese. According to the Whangarei Gazette a school is badly wanted in the Ruakaka district. If the"matter was urgently placed before the Board of Education no doubt they would give the matter their earnest attention. A Woodville clergyman, for remarking in a sermon on " Liberty," that some people understood liberty to mean license, was taken to task by one of his flock on the ground that he had introduced party politics. It is an exceptional circumstance now to meet with a drunken man at Maryborough (Queensland). It is calculated there is notspent on drink in the town more than £500 per week, a considerable falling off from past years. Some three weeks ago an old Maori chief named Solomon died at Puketotara settlement. Since his death his aged wife, believing that food was la/m to her, refused to eat, and succumbed the other day to her prolonged fast. The two Carrara marble lions, which attracted favourable attention at the Tasmania!) Exhibition, have been purchased, at a cost of £'200, by Messrs. Morey (M.L.C) and Cooke, for presentation to the citizens of Ballarat. It has been decided at a meeting of the members of the Dublin University resident in Victoria to hold a local celebration of the Tercentenary simultaneously with the ceremony to take place in Dublin at the beginning of July. Mr. L. Bell, a prominent cricketer at Traralgon (Victoria), while out shooting accidentally received a charge of shot from his own gun in the instep, shattering the bones and receiving such serious injury that amputation was necessary. The Hon. Mr. McKenzie told a deputation at Dune that the mistakes made by surveyors in the Otago Peninsula district, in fixing wrong boundaries for sections, were so numerous that if they were all settled at law half the peninsula would have to be sold to pay costs. The landlady of the Hobart Hotel met with a terrible death lately. She closed the house at the usual hour, and whilst stepping up from the bar to the bar parlour she tripped on the step, falling backward and striking her head on the counter. A candle also fell, her clothes ignited, and the unfortunate woman was literally burnt to death before assist arrive 1. On the Quambv Station, Victoria, lately, a lad named Thomas Re dford was in the company of several other boys, and by some means they obtained possession of a little powder They placed this in a hole and partly covered it with earth, after which P.edfor 1 leined over the spot. At that moment a spark dropped on to the powder, and an explosion resulted. The charge burst in the lad's face, and one ■•ye was severely injured.