NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9495, 26 April 1894, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

fk jjjjw paper is to b<3 established at Opunake, Taranaki. ! A tigress in the Adelaide Zoo has given birth to four cubs, three of which are white in colour- . . _ Since the Sydney Labour Bureau was started over £4000 has been received in refunds for fares and passages. The Southland County Council have declined to do away with the by-law compelling riders of 'cycles to dismount on meeting a horse vehicle. - The Hawke's Bay Herald says:—The condition of whab are by courtesy styled 14 The Government Offices" in Napier is in plain language a disgrace. Several important propositions are now before the Brisbane Council, including one for the borrowing .of £300,000, to be utilised in carrying out a scheme of sewerage. The Railway Commissioners have decided that timber for export carried by rail to Greymouth station shall be free of wharf I rates. A railage charge will, of course, be levied. I

During the year ending 31sb March 96 vessels wero taken up on the Wellington Patent Slip. The smallest was the yacht Bona, 5 tons, and the largest the a.s. Tavi«ni, 1490 tons. It is estimated that the butter shipments from Melbourne next season will reach about 12,000 tons, or about 4000 tons in excess of that sent away during the season just closing. As a girl aged eleven year named Mary Cavanagh was near a fire in the kitchen of her stepfather's house at West Broken Hill on the 2nd lust, her clothes caught, and the girl was so injured that she died. An enormous flow of water has been struck at Woolarena, near Collon township, in the Cunnamulla district, in Queensland, at a depth of 2500 feet. The flow is estimated to be over 3,000,000 gallons daily. The Gore Meat Preserving Works at Croydon (Otago) are now in full swing putting up rabbits and sheep's tongues. The proprietor is experiencing some difficulty in obtaining shipping space for his goods. A truck-load of ferrets have been forwarded from the Waimea Plains to Wellington, to the order of Mr. J. Ritchie, chief inspector of the Stock Department. They will be liberated in the Wairau (Blenheim) district). The Timaru Herald says that several splendid bags of ducks have been made on the Wainono Lake this year. Mr. D. Jackson got 46 in a few hours ; Mr. Holland 146 ducks and several swans in three days, and Messrs. Gordon and Henderson 70 ducks in two days.