NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8886, 24 May 1892, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

God Save the Queen ! Her Majesty is 73 to-day. A movement is on foot, to build a church fit Adelaide for the deaf and dumb. Safe robberies in Melbourne continue, but recently they have not been very successful. The question of street paving is agitating the public mind of Sydney very considerably. Rain is badly wanted in Central Queensland, and pastoralists there are preparing for the worst. Land in Queen-street, Brisbane, offered at auction the other day was passed in at £543 per foot. A bookkeeper arrested at Melbourne for embezzlement, has confessed to falsifying his books since ISB6. A woman suddenly ran into a shop in King-street, Sydney, the other day, and expired in a few seconds. A Melbourne company has purchased and intends to work the gold-bearing reefs at Bimbimbie, near Moruya. A man named Storey, at Bendigo, convicted of the manslaughter of a constable, Was let off with a fine of £'25. It is stated that there are thousands of pounds worth of machinery lying idle in Broken Hill for want of water. It is rather surprising to find among the religions professed in New South Wales that there are nearly 10,000 Buddhists. One of the sons of the late "Money" Miller, of Victoria, recently died, and his estate has paid £2-, 000 probate duty. The totalizator fractions of the last South Australian J.C. races, amounting to £183, were distributed among city charities. It is proposed to send some samples of red gum posts in use for nearly '20 years, xom Sydney to the Chicago Exhibition. A W'immera farmer, having sold his dray ind bullock team, got into the society of some spielers, and has not been seen since. The Aberdeen Freezing Company, of Newcastle, intends exporting 50,000 carCases of mutton monthly from this time forward. Wild cockatoos are playing havoc with the corn crops in the Mudgee district. Added to this the dingoes are decimating the flocks. It is understood that the Deputy Railway Commissioners of Victoria consider that the railway service is greatly overmanned in nearly all its branches. A bullock driver at Percy, Queensland, unearthed a piece of stone which yielded 117 ounces of good gold, and expects to get 50 ounces more from two other specimens. Reports from the I.achlan district, New South Wales, state that the country is in ft deplorable condition. No grass nor water, and sheep are dying in all directions.

Horse feed must be cheap in New South Wales. One of the carters who tendered for carting for the Adams town Council offered the use of a horse and cart for 2s (id per day. A passenger from Sydney by the Aramac to Melbourne, on tin; last trip, was caught in the act of smuggling a lot of jewellery, and had to pay for his experience, the goods being forfeited. An old aboriginal woman named Janey Alexander has been murdered near Bombala. A verdict of wilful murder was returned against Charley Alexander, her aboriginal husband. The Town Clerk has received the " Nineteenth Annual General Report of the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders for 1591," which will be placed in the Free Library for the use of visitors. A strange disease has attacked the oranges in the Camden district (New South Wales. The skin becomes a chocolate colour, but the flavour of the fruit appears to be so far unaffected. A terrific row has occurred in a fan-tan shop in Lismore (New South Wales). Charlie Ah On, it is alleged, attacked the surrounding Chinese with a butcher's cleaver and knife. He then attempted to cut his throat with a razor. A young man who wished to reach England, without paying his passage, concealed himself in the freezing chamber of the Duke of Argyll at Newcastle, but was luckily discovered after he had been there for two hours, and was well nigh frozen.