NEWE IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9404, 10 January 1894, Page 6

NEWE IN BRIEF.

Mr. Cadman is still detained in Auckland. * f | Rain fell, in .-Danevirka, on twenty-two '~ says of fast month. ..,; : ■ ' _ There was only one prisoner in the look* •Up la.ab evening, a man'for drunkenness. a - The. Auckland, cricketers t commence a '/match.! Wellington to-day against the fm local team. ' " '.' -*'*> L ,'■;>.'.'V ■~'■■

|| A party of workmen are now tarring and landing the play-grounds of the city schools. Mr. Parrell is supervising the work. , From December 16, 1893, to January 6, 1894, 28,628 acres of crown lands in the Auckland Land District were alienated. The members of the Crown Lands Board visited the island of Rangitoto yesterday afternoon to inspect the stone quarries. A young lady fisher took out of the Oamaru Acclimatisation Society's pond the other day, with rod and line, 15 perch and tench. A Woodville paper says the Maharahara Copper Mining project is evidently ended, • as the owners have thrown up their mining leases.

The Mount Morgan Company, Queensland, employed last month 1200 men, who raised 5800 tons of ore, producing SOOOoz of gold. The railway traffic in Sydney during the Christmas holidays shows a falling off of about £300 as compared with last year's figures. The contractors for the building of St. Paul's Church will be permitted to take the Btone required from the island of Bangitote at a small payment. The secretary of the Board of Education states that the results of the scholarship examination held last month will be made known in the course of the next fortnight. There were seventeen estates of deceased persons placed under the charge of the Public Trustee during the month of December, varying in value from £1 to £1200. •

Tba Bishop of Waiapu (Dr. Stuart), who is proceeding to Persia as a missionary, will give >*n address this evening at Sb, Mary's, Parnell, on " The Work of the Persian Mission."

The sum paid for milk within a radius of four miles from Stratford is estimated at no less than £2000 a month, the pay-sheet to suppliers to one factory alone amounting to £700 per month. In Launceiton, Tasmania, the other day, whilst J. M. Martin and William C«x were generating oxygen by means of oxide of manganese and chlorate of potash, in the Albert Hall, for a limelight view, an explosion occurred, smashing the retort and blowing the fragments a considerable distance. Both men were severely burned. The passengers by train from Wellington the other night (says the Manawatu Farmer) were much cancerned at the continuous blowing of the whistle in - the neighbourhood of Ohan. It appears that a boy was lost in the bush, and it was in the hope that he would hear the whistle and make for the line that the whistle was blown.

This afternoon the Ferry Company will run one of their steamers on a fishing excursion, the Tongariro being advertised to leave their wharf at half-past one for one of the favourite fishing grounds, returning about six o'clock. The p.s. Eagle will also make two trips to St. Heliors Bay at half-past ten and half-past two, returning at four and six o'clock.