NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8982, 13 September 1892, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A Geohess football match at Ballarat realised £100 in aid of the local poor. The trout in the streams in the Fortymile Bush are being destroyed by shags. All the small-pox patients have been discharged from the Victorian Sanatorium. A boy named William Boyd was crushed to death by a falling tree at Rushworth, Victoria. The police at Bendigo raided a Chinese gambling den the other night, and arrested *3 Chinese.

A storekeeper at Makuri lost £28 by the visit to the district of Labour Bureau workmen.

Reported find of tin from near Stanhope, N*w South Wales. Three miles of country pegged out. Sax O'Rell added to his experience lately by descending a shaft in one of the Qympie mines. A Presbyterian manse was destroyed by fire at Meredith, Victoria. A lad was burnt to death.

A wharf labourer named Darling was crushed to death by a boiler, which fell ois him at Circular Quay, Sydney. A fire occurred on board the barque Lord Kinnaird, at Newcastle, recently, and £400 worth of property was destroyed. A large number of workmen have been dismissed by the Tasiuanian Government, ©wing to the need of retrenching expenditure.

The Building Inspector of Pahiatua has resigned his office because the Town Board did not support him in enforcing the building by-laws. Narrandera is full of unemployed, and bands of hungry larrikins are robbing and molesting the shearers on various stations in the district.

Goulbnrn tobacconists have been warned by the police that if they continue to keep their shops open on Sunday they will be prosecuted. An effort is being made to get together a representative band in Masterton to compete at the Band Contest to be held in Wellington in November. A settler at Makora, near Masterton, has had 200 per cent, of lambs from a small flock this season. The sheep had, of course, plenty of shelter. A notorious horse thief, Ben Bridge, who escaped from the Murrurrundi Gaol, New South Wales, was recaptured at Bourketown, Queensland. Kanakas at Bowen are applying for exemption certificates, to enable them to follow general agricultural pursuits, from which they are debarred by regulation. A Masterton resident has a tree which bears three kinds of —the plum, the cherry and the apricot. The cherry and the apricot were grafted on to the plum. Dr. Manning, medical adviser to the New South Wales Government, says that if the cholera reaches Australia, it will be by way of China and the East, not by way of Europe.

There is some talk of turning one of the Melbourne theatres into a permanent home for circus performances and equestrian drama, after the manner of the once renowned Astley's, London.

Somebody effected an entrance to the cellar of Fitzgerald's Brewery, Bathurt, lately, and knocked the bungs out of forty-four hogsheads of beer and ten hogsheads of porter. Loss, £300.

A monster tangi was held over the remains of the late chief Abraham, who died at the Lower Taueru recently. The bodywas placed in a leaden coffin, with a glass front, and was buried in the Maori style.

A jockey named Cart-well, who was found gagged and bound in Inveresk Park, Tasmania, confesses that he was so treated by confederates in carrying out a makebelieve robbery plan to conceal delinquencies.

The Parramatta police discovered two illicit stills in full working order on the Chapel Road, Bankstown. Two men who were renting the place have disappeared. Forty gallons of whisky were found on the premises.

Mr. James Tyson, the Australian millionaire, has stated his intention of visiting the Chicago exposition. If so, it will be the first occasion on which this well-known personage will have gone beyond the borders of Australia.

Dr. Hosking, of Masterton, has sent in an account for £6 Is 4d for advice given in the Pahiatua poisoning case to the Pahiatua Town Board. The account has been returned to the doctor, the Board stating that it has no power to deal with it.

The Mauriceville cruelty case has been strongly commented upon by the Melbourne papers, and the name of the Goodgames has been coupled with that of Mrs. Montague, the horrifying details of whose cruelty were recently published at home.

At Nelson, near Windsor, a young lady named Miss McGuire attempted to shoot a snake which was entering the house, when the charge of shot entered the leg of her mother, who was close by. The latter was removed to the hospital in a critical condition.

Madame Patti has announced that during the next American campaign, in 1893-94, she will positively say farewell to our cousins across the water. Her contract is with Mr. Marcus Meyer, and she is to receive £40,000 for 40 concerts in the United States and Canada.

This evening Mr. M. Kirkbride will read a paper in the Mangeru Hall upon " Are County Settlers as Deserving of Legislature Favours and State Assistance as other Workers in the Country." The paper will be read in connection with the Mangere branch of the National Association.

The following is the state of Her Majesty's Prison, Auckland, for week ending September 10 : On remand, 1 male ; awaiting trial, 1 male ; penal servitude, 40 males; hard labour, 51 males, 7 females ; imprisonment, 6 males; default of bail, 1 male, 1 female; debtors, 2 males ; received during the week, 13 males, 4 females; discharged, 9 males, 4 females. Total in prison, 102 males, 8 females.

At a meeting of farmers in Melbourne it was resolved to address all the agricultural societies in Victoria, and strongly urge them to request all the members in both Houses of Parliament to use their best endeavours so as to secure the adjustment of all taxation in a manner more equitable than at present to the residents of the country.

A Napier publican was fined last week for allowing a game with dice to be played in bis hotel. The game was " a shilling in and the winner shout," and the fine £7 10s and costs £1 14s. The Resident Magistrate, Mr. Wardell, said the game needed putting down with a firm hand ; and in this case the offence was the greater because the landlord himself took part in the game.

The following intimations are from Lloyd's Weekly of July 31 —Charles Cartwright, three years since was addressed "care of Mr. R. 0. E. Carey, Longburn, Palmerston North, New Zealand." His mother and sister are dead, and his father is very distressed at getting no reply to his letters. Charles Pullin left London in 1861 ; is supposed to be in New Zealand. Brother Henry seeks news.