NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9270, 4 August 1893, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Arbor Day. City olection today. The VVaikato footballers aro in Auckland. An Auckland football team loaves for Tauranga tin* evening. Bank of New Zealand dividend will be payable on and after the 12th instant. A dividend of sixpence per chare has been declared in the Try Fluke Gold Mining Company. The Waikato football representative? were defeated at Franklin yesterday by two points to nil. The beer duty collected at. Auckland during July was £940, not £240 a? telegraphed from Wellington by the Press Association. The young men (Mover and Smith, charged with assaulting and robbing Arthur Cottle, have been committed for trial. , u Within three weeks there have been in the suburbs of Sydney no less than three deaths clearly and directly owing to sheer destitution. The Wellington Opera Hou«e Company appears in tlit» lift of creditors of Alfred Dampier, of Melbourne, theatrical manager, as a claimant of £t>S. The electoral meeting at the City Hall last night, was at times inclined to be rewdy. " There was an immense gathering. A few eviction scene? were enacted. The Woodvillo Examiner says :—We are informed that the Dalefield cheese factory lias been so successful that it has been able to pay 3}d per gallon for milk, and p>y 10 per cent, to the shareholder?. The Broken Hill Proprietary is the greatest silver mine in the world. In ISS7 its silver cost '2s 2d an ounce to produce, and last vear it cost Is Sd. Its lead cost per pound a little over Id in ISS7, and now it cost? about a halfpenny. There i? unusual activity among specutors in city properties in Wellington just now. The latest important sale is of Mr. Andrew Youngs well-known splendid private residence, Upper Willis-street, which has been bought by Mr. K. M. Simpson. The Government steamer is at present at Poutu, Kaipara, in connection with the lighthouse there, and may be soon expected at Onehunga, whence she will take her departure on Saturday afternoon about one o'clock for Steven's Island and Wellington. An idea of the dangerous condition of the roads of the West Coast of the South Island i? afforded by the fact that the mail contractor — whoso conveyance containing several passengers, was precipitated 150 feet the other day, with serious results—has lost two coaches and four horses within the last six months by accidents. The force of the gale on Tuesday, July 25 as experienced on the Hanmer Plains, may be gathered from the fact that the church recently erected there by the Rev. W. Campbell, of Waiau, though very strongly constructed and bolted together according to the mist modern style of bracing, was blown off it? foundations and totally wrecked. An Oamaru shearer, writing from Queensland, says :—" Here, in this shod, New'Zealand'is well represented, about onefourth of the shearers hailing from there. One has only to look down the board to see them. Their physique reveals them everywhere. Australian shearers, a? a class are not large men as a rule ; they are generally of the lean, wiry build, without that solid healthy look that bespeaks 'our island' everywhere." The Manawatu Herald writes In the matter of freights the energetic chairman of the Flax millers' Association has succeeded in doing excellent work. The freight to Boston lias been tios a ton and primage ; now the Association has had an oiler at 42s 61 a ton ! A savin- of 20s a ton represents a sum of £100 to £200 a stripper, a matter of vital importance when prices are low, though of sufficient magnitude to be at all tiaies of interest.