NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9366, 24 November 1893, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

.English mail, via Brindisi, arrived yesterday afternoon. The shingle bank ab the Timaru break, Water has advanced 10 feeb during the last three months. A large number of persons have applied for land grants under the Government village settlement scheme in Tasmania. A number of small burglaries and jewellery robberies in Melbourne), show thab thieves have been very activei during Cup week. The influenza epidemic is raging so fiercely at Maldon, Victoria, thab ab leasb one-third of the miners have been compelled to take to their beds. At the meeting of the Tauranga County Council, on Wednesday, Mr. D. Lundon, one of the new members, was elected chair- j man. There were no less than 30 applications before the committee of the Charitable Aid Hoard yesterday, principally renewals, but none of them wore of special interest. The body of a newly-born male child was found on a vacant piece of land at South Melbourne, on November 10. The cause of death is supposed to have been suffocation. The only occupant of the lock-up last evening was Edward Hickv, arrested by Sergeant Macky, of the Water Police, on a charge of a breach of the Shipping Act, by wilful disobedience to lawful commands on board ship. A girl named Harriot Neville, aged nine years, died in the Adelaide Hospital on November 10, from burns received through her nightdress catching when she _was attempting to light a fire under directions from her mother. A correspondent writes from Port Albert that Mr. Monk was strongly opposed to the property tax, which may be seen by reference to Hansard, and that he supported Mr. Moss's amendment proposing anincomo and land tax instead. At Petone, Wellington, last Saturd one large dog, of the retriever class, literally hurled another with which it was fighting through the large window of a millinery establishment, considerably damaging the goods displayed. Application has been made in Melbourne to attach the pension of £180 of James Crotty, an ex-school teacher of South Melbourne, now insolvent. His solicitor said that in ISSS Crotty inherited £10,000, of which Matthew Larkin, now in gaol, had heartlessly swindled him. The application was adjourned. A good deal of indignation is being expressed at Dunedin at an article in the Licensed Victuallers' Gazette urging, in the case of prohibition candidates, that any exposure of their antecedents and private character likely to damage them should be disseminated without risking the pains and penalties of the law of libel. A Wellington man recently bought tickets in an Art Union at Invercargill. In due time he received a hugo packing case. Thinking that at least a piano had arrived, all his friends were summoned to the opening up of the treasure. Examination of the case disclosed two iron saucepans, a kettle, an enamelled stewpan, a griddle, and several other kitchen utensils. The Wellington Press says : —The police would do well to pay a visit occasionally on Sunday evenings to some of the public resorts, such as the Basin Reserve and the plantations about the city. Bands of larrikins frequent these places, and by their rowdy, and sometimes positively insulting behaviour, completely spoil the pleasure to be derived from spending such evenings as last, out of doors. An example should be made of these young roughs.