NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9305, 14 September 1893, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

• , ♦ UoiaoipAx. elections to-day. * . , Annual meeting of the Gordon Cricket Club to-morrow evening. Of 1,250,000 population in New South Wales 54,000 are freeholders. The boy burglais have been committed to the Burnham Industrial School. Several new yachts are in course of construction, and the boat-builders are also busy. , At the inquest on the body of Donald Mcßenzie, the jury returned a verdict of felo-de-se. The Salvation Army are about to build a fine imposing building in Wellington as D&IT3.CK3 There has been a large increase in the number of voters and of votes upon the Auckland Burgess Roll. There was a large attendance at the Columbia Rink last evening. To-night it will be reserved for the " Columbia Rinkmg Club." , ■ Contested Municipal elections will take place for Karangahape Ward, Parnell, Newmarket, Devonport, Onehunga, and Birkenhead. A strike of compositors has taken place at the office of theTasmanian News, owing to a proposed reduction from 9d per thousand to id. At the last meeting of the Wellington Benevolent Society, the trustees said that the Labour Bureau was only filling the city with unemployed from all parts. In view of the favourable reception of New Zealand rams in Australia, it is suggested that the chief breeders should send trial shipments of stud sheep to the South American and English markets. The territorial revenue of Victoria continues its downward course. The amount received from July 1 to 21st August, was £52.122, being a deficiency of £19,245, as compared with the proportionate estimate. Diphtheria would seem to be very prevalent in Carterton just now, as a gentleman writes to suggest the employment, at the expense of the Borough Council, or by private subscription, of trained nurses to aid the sufferers. The libel case of the Greyuiouth Jockey Club v. the Christchurch Press Company (Limited) was heard at Hokitika on the 6th inst. The plaintiff claimed £1500, and the jury returned a verdict for £25 with costs on the lowest scale. A young Englishman, E. Skirby, who came out to engage in the sawmilling industry at King's Island, but abandoned it, was killed at Zeehan (Tasmania) the other day by a tree being blown down on him. He leaves a widow and one child. A very fine specimen of the English salmon arrived in Wellington last week, having been sent out in the refrigerating chamber of the Tainui to the order of .Mr. Judah Myers. The fish, which was about five feet long, weighed 441b, and reached Wellington in first-class condition. The milk-preserving works erected at Wallacetown, Southland, by the late Mr. Blair, hare been purchased by Mr. A. H. Highton, head master of the Southland Boys' High School, who is resigning that appointment to embark in the business of manufacturing condensed milk and butter. A prisoner named William Lynden, who was recently arrested at Harrisville, Queensland, on a charge of false pretences, escaped from custody. He then tried to drown himself in a creek, failing which he cut his throat with a glass bottle. The man is now recovering from his self-inflicted injuries. At Tourello (Victoria) the other day Joseph Maher, 22 years of age, son of a brewer's traveller, took a drink of what he supposed was lemonade, but which was a poisonous preparation for cleaning harness plating. He at once ran about a mile and a-half to a doctor, but the exertion accelerated the action of the poison, and he gradually sank and died. * Senator Leland Stanford died suddenly at Menlo Park, California, on June 21, in his seventieth year. He was widely known as a railway constructor, millionaire, and senator. Out of a fortune estimated at upwards of £10,000,000 he gave to the State of California £4,000,000 to found, in memory of his son, a university at Palo Alto. Mr. Stanford was a large stockraiser, and he also owned a splendid stud of horses.