NEWS IN BRIEF

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9714, 9 January 1895, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF

.Wool suits day. Presbyterian Synod meets at Otahuhu on file sth of February. There are close on 2000 Justices of the Peace in Sooth Australia. A Chinaman drew the winner in the big feweep on the Queensland Cap. It is compated that last year fully 23,000 persona passed through Port Adelaide to Wei tern Australia. In 1593 only 5932 persons passed through the same port. A white wallaby has been seen lately in the vicinity of Nelson, New South Wales. All efforts to capture it have been of no avail. At Timaru on New Year morning a 11 parcel of roughs" behaved shamefully. They damaged fences, tore off gates, smashed op a bathing machine, and did other mischief of a serious character. The year which is just closing," says the Chief Commissioner of Police in Victoria, "is the worst I have known for capital crimes. There have been 22 persons killed in some way by other persons." A trial was made near Sydney the other day of a newly-invented flying machine, but the affair proved a ridiculous failure, and the machine, instead ot flying, tumbled Over on to the rocks and was destroyed. A bull broke loose in Sydney recently, and rushing along George-street, the principal business street of the city, caused great consternation. Two men were severely injured before the animal was captured. Mr. A. Gambling, a butcher at Inglewood, was recently mounted on a pair of Steps doing something to his shop front when the steps gave way. He fell against a hook, which entered the fleshy part of the right arm, and he was suspended in this way till someone cams to his assistance and lilted him down. The total amount advanced in Queensland from the meat fund under the Meat md Dairy Produce Act is £63,552, besides which £3862 has been conditionally approved. Payments amounting to £2141 Imm the dairy fund hare been approvei. Advances for three sets of work, amounting to £2675, have been conditionally approved. An exchange remarks that you now see "suburban swagmen" in the chief Australian cities. These men collect a fewbags which, folded swag fashion, they tarry around with an old billycan, .but never further than the outskirts of the city. Having excited the sympathy of the passer-by they invest that sympathy in J>illycans of beer. A shocking gun accident occurred at Logan, about 15 miles from Wedderburn (Victoria), on Boxing Day. A man named McMahon, in the employ of a farmer named Lindorf, was opposite the house handling a loaded gun, which went off just at the moment a little girl of two years appeared at the door. The child received the whole charge in the thigh, most of the flesh from which was torn away. Am the steamer Warooka was proceeding op the Port River, at Adelaide, the other night, she ran into a yacht named the Rover. The yacht, which was proceeding In the" same direction, sank, but the Warooka was not damaged. The captain of the latter states that there were no lights showing on the yacht. Two occupants cf the yacht were rescued, but a third, named Victor Prest, aged 28, was J drowned, J