NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9309, 19 September 1893, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Costley Home is at present fall. There is a vacancy on the Hospital staff for a charge nurse. _ ~. - . .'A prospectus is oat in Adelaide for an t&risl Ship Syndicate. petitions against franchise to women are being signed all over colony. The overdraft of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board up "to date is £382 lis 10i. There are still over 14,000 carcases of mutton in the Woodville Freezing Works awaiting shipment. The Newton Borough Council complains of excessive consumption of water. The meter is to be tested. „ During last year the Victorian batter factories paid £520,000 for milk and sold butter worth £690,000. Napier and New Plymouth are the only two places in the colony where there is not proper accommodation for indigent old There is (said to be a good deal of destitution in Invercargill, where many people are reported to be on the verge of larvatloMr. Lennox thinks it is a shameful thing for children to shunt their aged parents upon the public, as is often done in Auckland. Mr. Harrison addressed the electors of Marsden at Kamo on Thursday night, Mr. F. F. Day presiding, and received a vote of hank?. . The question of the bringing up of the children' of negligent and immoral parents was discussed at length at the Charitable Aid Board yesterday.

The Broken Hill Municipal Council bave lecided to dismiss 100 road men in their ?ervice, and to put on 300 of the unemployed at 30? per week. A Sydney paper says Recent visitors to New Zealand state that there is much more blow than reality about its great prosperity as compared with Australia. The Wellington fishermen want a market, and complain that the trade is entirely in the hands of hawkers, while fish unfit for consumption is smoked and sold. There are at present in the Costley Home 159 inmates. In the corresponding fortnight of September, 159"2, there were 149, and in September, IS9I, 166 inmates. An additional room is being partitioned off at the Auckland Telegraph Office as a reading, luncheon, and sitting room for the officials. The accommodation is very much needed.

It was stated by Mr. Glover at the meeting of the Charitable Aid Board yesterday that if every application for admission to the Costley Home were granted that institution would soon be overcrowded. A horse belonging to Mr. H. Goddard, carter, of Archhill, was bogged on the Surrey Hills Estate yesterday. It was rescued in a very weak condition, and was taken home with the greatest difficulty. Up to the present time 153 people have been executed in Melbourne for the following crimes Murder, 116; attempt to murder, 17; rape, 10; unnatural offence on a child, 1 : robbery with violence, 9. This evening commences the Jewish Day of Atonement of " Yomkippui." The evening service at the Synagogue will be conducted by Rabbi Goldstein. On Wednesday the places of business of our Jewish citizen? will be closed.

It will be seen by advertisement that Mr. Johh Puller will repeat his popular song, " We Don't Know How We Love Them Till We Lose Them," at to-morrow night's People's Popular Concert. The full programme appears in our advertising columns. A late patient at the Auckland Hospital has written to the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board stating that he was not given jnough to eat. It was pointed out in reply lhat each patient was supplied with food exactly as ordered by bis medical attend;nt.

Some people in the Newton Borough io not seem to understand that the water ;upply has to be paid for. One lady, who was allowing the water to run to waste, on being remonstrated with by the Town Clerk, stated that it could not matter when so much rain was falling every day. There were in the lock-up last evening two persons on charges of drunkenness, and John Murphy, arrested by Chief Detective Grace on a charge of larceny of drawers and singlet, etc., value 4s, the property of John Bollard, and others ; accused is also charged with assault on Alex. Philips.

In its issue of Saturday evening, September 9th, the Dunedin Globe made the following announcement: —" The lasb iseue of the Globe, as at present constituted, appears before trie reader. We are in a aiore than moribund condition —in fact we lave died from want of the needful wherewith to carry on." The Christchurch Press says:—At Cheviot the formation of the Port road is progressing but slowly. Some of the best workers are earning lis a day, which is almost Is a day more than those get who are engineering the job. It is said that dissatisfaction exists in reference to the operative system on the works.

Writing on the subject of Mr. H. Hill's refusal of the post of chief inspector, offered him by the Auckland Board of Education, the Napier Telegraph says : —" We have always maintained that a change of inspectors is highly desirable, and we have no doubt that it would have been better both for Auckland and for Hawke's Bay, had Mr. Hill carried out his first intention." Beautiful sunset last evening. It is reported from Wagga, New South Wales., that 350 shearers presented themselves at Berry Jerry station when the roll was called, and that because a selection was made of those required instead of a ballot being taken, the men rushed the hut at night time and rolled logs across the road in the hope that the owner would drive over them on his way to the station. The ringleaders are described as the scum of Melbourne.