NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8955, 12 August 1892, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Thb' new Sydney Central Police Courts are said to be the finest in Australasia. ' Afc the present time scarlatina is very prevalent in Geraldine, several families being laid up with it. * ( Last night's Gazette notifies that Mr. L. 3. BagnaU has been appointed a member of the Land Board for the Auckland district. ' it is rumoured that there is every probability of Archbishop Redwood being very shortly promoted to the dignity of a Cardinal. * 7 A flock of sheep was crossing the river at ferry's Plains (N.S.W.) a few days ago, - when, ©wing to the force of the current, about 900 of the animals were drowned. Lord Sherbrook« was an Australian colonist from 1842 to 1851, and sat in the Legislative Council of N.S.W. from 1843 to 1860, afterwards being elected member for "Sydney. . , . Dr. Bevan said the other night, says the ■Wagga Hummer, that he thanked God for the depression and sorrow now existing m Melbourne, as out of it would grow a purer 1 and nobler life. . . , > Many Victorian industries which were arlifically created are stated to be in such a hopeless condition now that the intercolonial markets are not available that no tariff alterations can help them. ; At Mackay (Queensland) recently, a plantation owner was fined £1 and costs for employing a kanaka to cart sugar-cane plants, and a farmer was fined in the same sum for employing a kanaka to milk cows, j A young man who has just arrived in Palmereton from Picton, says the Standard, states that it has been raining almost incessantly at the latter place since last Christmas, and that the sun has only been seen once. . . There is a steady revival in mining throughout the Mud gee mining district, good payable gold being got at Gulgong, Windyer, Pyramul, Hill End, Tambaroora, and Hargraves. The finds are both alluvial and quartz. _ . The farming members in the Victorian Parliament are said to be greatly displeased at the attempt made to compel them to agree to a heavy increase in protective duties to favour the town industries in return for the stock tax. The human remains lately discovered at Mount King Block, between Milparinka and the Queensland border, have been identified as those of Robert McCreedy. Deceased is supposed to have perished from thirst about two years ago. The Victorian branch of the Medical Association claim that the admission of medical women to the British Association is due to their advocacy. Some months ago the Victorian branch passed a resolution urging it on the British Association. There were in the lock-up last evening : George Glover, arrested by Detective Chrystal on a charge of false pretences, to wife to presenting an ocder from Mrs. Fernando for payment of 25s to Walter Lewis ; and James Edwards, arrested for larceny by Sergeant Lyons. . Sheep-stealing is (according to the Hawkee Bay Herald) being carried on to each an extent in the Manawatu that it has been found necessary to station a constable there with the object of protecting flock-owners, and, if possible, bringing the offenders to justice. The Art Gallery is still attracting a goodly number of visitors, who are never weary of inspecting the varied treasures of art, etc., there. When the new annexe is completed, and the Mackelvie collection is placed there, with all its varied attractions, the number will be greatly increased. The Council of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce have carried resolutions expressing the opinion that the time has arrived for the connection of the capitals of Australia by telephone. The Chambers of Commerce of Sydney, Adelaide, and Brisbane will be asked to join in simultaneous representation to the Governments of the respective colonies on the subject, and the matter will be brought under the notice of the Victorian Government. A correspondent to the Rangitikei | journal, referring to the drop in that district in the price of sheep, says — Perhaps in the course of time men's minds will not be quite so opaque, and the day will come when general farming, dairying, fruitgrowing, poultry, bees, etc., will be universally in vogue. Not all the eggs in one basket, and that basket tended by one or perhaps two lonely and miserable mortals of shepherds."