NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9024, 1 November 1892, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A &MAMA(New Guinea), pearly shelter CtdygoTlOOtona of shell in six months, *-arfehilOO per ton in Samaria. / The £r(»s cost of all the railway lines in wSSSSSSa; opened and unopened, up to "K? with tee Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid bSJa SS been fixed for November 23. AHawke'fl Bay journal commenting on StfSniwfceriallngratitude, says, "A miserable IP ship is all that has come this way." Tho Wellington Post has the best authority for stating that there is plenty of work in the Pahiatua district for competent bushThe" Napier shopkeepers are favourable to a Saturday half-holiday. Christchurch and Asbburton are moving in the same direction. - , During the past eight years, creditors in bankrupt estates have been estimated to lose in Otago and Southland alone a million of money. • «.,•*• The Government Stock Inspector considers that the heavy loss of sheep in the Woodville district this year, is entirely due to overstocking. ... The Manawatu River is returning to its Did ways. In other words it has found its way back to the mouth from which it flowed 20 years ago. _ While some men were getting cattle out of a back block near Eketahuna, a bull turned on one of their number and gored him through the leg. The annual general meeting of shareholders in the Pride of Karaka Goldraining Company convened for yesterday afternoon lapsed for want of a quorum. ..-.-,. Private letters from Sydney state that Everything is extremely dull throughout Australia, and that New Zealand is spoken of everywhere as the only colony which is in a flourishing condition. The Rev. Robert Wood preached a sermon against dancing in the Masterton Presbyterian Church recently, in which he said that balls were getting more popular than Bibles in tho town. The Napier Daily Telegraph says :—"The Government spends £1800 a.year in putting a dozen of its friends in the Legislative Council, and yet it won't spend £30 to wind up and clean the town clock." Thirteen landowners in the Palmeraton district have been fined in sums ranging from £3 to £1 and costs for neglecting to keep down rabbits on their properties to tho satisfaction of the Oamaru inspector. The Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce is to consider tun question of whether bank notes of various values should not be on different coloured paper, so as to make them easily distinguishable. The meeting of the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, which was to have been hold yesterday afternoon, lapsed for want of a quorum, the only members ? resent being Messrs. C. Atkin (chairman), . Dignan, and J. Bollard. A strange fish was caught by a Masterton angler in the Waipoua the other night. A gentleman who resided several years in the United States, during which time he many times fished in the Mississippi River, says that it is a specimen of the American catfish. Another of the old East Coast chiefs passed away at Waikikino the other day, at the good old age of 90 years. Hoeia Whakataha was a chief of the Ngatihongomaiaia, Ngatiparera, and Ngatimahu tribes, and -was a near descendant of the wellknown chief Wereha. In order to comply with the provisions of the Shop Assistants' Act, it is proposed in Masterton that the business places Bhall close On Thursday afternoons. A leading firm there is at present eliciting the general feeling on the subject, so that a course common to all may be followed. Feed just now is very plentiful in the Forty-mile Bush, and a great many settlers in the vicinity of Eketahuna, have more feed than they know what to do with. Several of them have signified their intention of giving up sheep and going in for dairying now that a factory is to bo built in their town.