NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9735, 4 February 1895, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

sitting of the Supreme Court to-day. i Of 481. typhoid cases in Sydney last year, one in every eight was fatal. An octopus, 8 feet across, was caught the other day in Nelson Harbour. Bowlers' presentation to Mr, W. A. Whi'oX»n at Newmarket on Saturday. Railway accident at Rnncinxan on Saturday. Guard Brothers fatally crushed. Onslow Trotting Club meeting on Saturday. £1430 passed through the totalisator. Miss McQaaid's testimonial on view at Kohn'a jeweller shop, Queen-street. It is greatly admired. Influenza has been very prevalent m some of the Mackenzie country sheds this season, and a number of fcbe shearers have been incapacitated thereby. There was a considerable attendance at the Choral Hall, yesterday evening, when Mr. Drama delivered a Tbeosophical lecture on " The Rationale of Theosopby. The Saturday half-holiday does not come into operation until the end of the week. Last Saturday night the shops were open as usual, the public showing no sign of preparation for the new order of things. The Peloros Guardian says :—We hope before many years to' find thonsandj of acres transformed into beautiful meadows and waving corn, growing abundantly, go as to increase oar exports from Picton, and make Marlborough what it ought to have been long ago—one of the most prosperous districts in New Zealand. A Christcharch paper says it is currently rumoured that, as the r<jsalt of an interview between Lieutenant-Colonel Hume and a Dumber of prominent Prohibitionists, several police changes will be made in the Christchnrch district, incuding the transfer of at least one member of the detective branch, the grievance against whom is that he has relatives iu Christchurch in the licensing trade.