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NEWS IN BRIEF.

Got crickeb ; matches were resumed on Saturday. , The coal export from ; Westporb fpt the Week ended Saturday was 3872 tons. The fishing excursions on Saturday after* noon were largely attended, and good sporb resulted.

*•' Daring the past four weeks 7096 acres of Crown Lands have been taken up in the Kapler district. During the past five months relief at the rate of £700 per month has been distributed in the Brisbane district.

A bather in the Albert Park Baths, Melbourne, the other day suddenly sank and was taken out unconscious and died. The Victorian Lands Department, between December 9 and 12, has received £8000 arrears from selectors lately urged to cash up. No message has yet been received from England by the Auckland College Council, relative to the selection and appointment of professors. The Queensland Government has taken steps for the suppression of seditious literature such as that recently issued by the Active Service Brigade. A man named Thomas Hardy has disappeared at Alligator' Creek, Queensland, leaving his clothes and gun behind. It is supposed an alligator made a meal of him. The Auckland cricketers were defeated by Canterbury by an innings and 156 runs the most overwhelming defeat ever ax* perienced by an Auckland representative team. Owing to the s.s. Talune being prevented from calling at Gisborne, by the rough weather, the Auckland polo team have been compelled to lengthen their stay in that place. In consequence of the improved state of the New South Wales revenue the Minister for Works has decided to pub into commission some of the dredges which were recently laid up. The Melbourne police have compiled a list showing that 200 men have registered baby nurse homes in Melbourne and suburbs, the majority for only one ,child, others for two children.

A man named Waskib meb with an accident to his hand at the Kauri Company's mill on Saturday morning, which necessitated his having to go to the Hospital to have two of his fingers amputated. The Timaru Herald points oub that many of the concrete blocks on the parapeb recess of the breakwater, are crumbling to pieces. In most cases a deposit of carbonate of magnesia has displaced the lime of the Portland cement.

The Hon. A. J. Cadman, who has been spending the holidays at Whangarei, returned to town by the Northern S.S. Company's steamer Wellington yesterday morning. Mr, R. Thompson, M.H.R., was also a passenger by the Wellington. A plucky rescue from drowning is reported from Geraldton (Western Australia). A Chinese lunatic escaped from the local gaol and rushed into the sea, bub Hugh Smith, a seaman, succeeded in rescuing him, notwithstanding that Smith was hit and clenched by the drowning madman. On Christmas Day the workers in connection with the Sussex-street Mission in Sydney gave a Christmas dinner to over 300 destitute men. At the soup kitchen 400 hungry persons were regaled at a Christmas dinner, and on leaving each man was presented with a pipe, a dot of matches, and two cakes of tobacco.

A southern contemporary says—A Rangiora girl consulted the oracles of Fate as to her prospective matrimonial venture. She wrote the names of her three admirers on as many eggs, and placed them under a sitting hen. The lucky man whose name adorned the egg that was first hatched, received the maiden's hand. Major-General Tulloch, of Victoria, states that Mr. Gladstone's policy of refusing to increase the strength of the British navy is inimical to the interests of Australia, and that if war should break out in Europe next spring England could nob under present circumstances spare sufficient Warships to protect trade routes and colonial commerce.

A surprise party, composed of aboub 20 of the leading sportsmen of Auckland and district, with whom were several citizens, was paid on Friday evening to the City Club Hotel, to congratulate Mrs. Budge, nee Mrs. S. Jacobs, and Mr. G. S. Budge, sen., of the stud farm, Kohimarama, upon their recent marriage. Health, long life, and prosperity to the newly-wedded pair was drunk in bumpers of champagne. -

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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9402, 8 January 1894, Page 6

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NEWS IN BRIEF. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9402, 8 January 1894, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9402, 8 January 1894, Page 6