NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9773, 21 March 1895, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Herald Monthly Summary will be published tomorrow. There are 199 doctors on the Sydney telephone. Legs of mutton are now being sold in Master ton at 2d per lb. The recent improvement in the price of kauri gum is improving the labour market. Bank clerks and policemen are allowed £1 a week extra for living at Coolgardie and the Murchison. Napier builders ask that some Government work to be undertaken there be done on the co-operative principle. Yesterday Henry Kinnaird Hovell, licensed surveyor, Devonport, filed a petition to be adjusted a bankrupt. The oldest natives assert that Ruapehu was never so violent before within their memory. One geyser, quiescent since the * Tarawera affair, is now playing 40 feet high. A Wairarapa gentleman who has just returned from a week's stay in Auckland, says business is nothing like so dull nor things as gloomy here as reports before he started led him to expect. The Waxworks Exhibition and panoramic views were open all day yesterday at the rented premises of the proprietors adjacent to the Albert Hotel, and were visited by large numbers of people. A suit for £3000 damages, has just been brought by a Victorian man against a neighbour who, by means of a sun-glass, burned all the hair off the complainant's head while he was asleep. It is stated that a project for the formation of a women's co operative agricultural farm, chiefly for the cultivation of vegetables, is on foot in Wellington, and that the Government are to be requisitioned to grant a piece of land for the purpose at a convenient distance from the town. . A rouseabout at Tinui the other day gob word that he had been left several thousand pounds by a rich relative in the old country, for which place he speedily set sail, though nob before he had given handsome presents to ail those who had treated him kindly, nob forgetting the local constable At the Drill-shed last evening the Devonport Torpedo Corps mustered for their weekly drill, and were put though a course of preliminary submarine mining work, knotting, splicing, etc., by instruction from t!ie Torpedo Force. Glasses from the infantry companies were present, and were in tructed in signalling. - A large school excursion train was run from Napier to the bush district the other day. Returning in the evening, a lad about 18 years of age, named Saunders, who was standing on a carriage platform, took a fit , and fell off. His injuries were not serious, but his escape was a most miraculous one, as the train was travelling at the rate of 35 miles an hour down an incline, and he fell close to a bank. , Writes a correspondent of the Hawke's ■ Bay Herald: —A man seeking work informed me today that all the regular swaggers are working towards Wellington, | where they mean to make a demonstration with the view of compelling the Govern- : ment to do something for them. He says J the bulk of these men are Australians of the worst type, and that they do a deal of ] mischief to the shelters, and steal as they < pass along. <