NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9774, 22 March 1895, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Victorian unemployed are to be set thinning red gum on the Murray River. The up to-date Victorian synonym for seeing snakes is seeing Tantanoola tigers. The Jewish Synagogue is the first place of worship in Wellington to be lighted by electricity. Three Chinese ladies ah Greymonth pre seated Mrs. Seddon with a handsomely worked mantel drape. The Marlborough Times states that orei 50 personsmen, women, and children—

ire engaged hop-picking at Dodson and Co.'a gardens. The Coldstream Road Board, Ashburton County, paid £37 6a 9d for the destruction this season of small birds and their eggs. The number of eg?* paid for was 23,169. The South Australian Government intends serving forms by post and by means of the police, calling upon women to enrol themselves under the Adult Suffrage ■Act.

Wellington yacht-owners complain of the wanton destruction of their moorings at Te Aro. No less than four were cut away last week, including those of the Waitangi and Siren.

The grass surrounding the powder magazine at Maribyrnong, Victoria, caught fire the other day, and made such headway that it reached the outer wall before it was extinguished. Students at tho Canterbury University College sell copies of their notes of lectures to other less fortunate students in the middle district of New Zealand who are unable to attend the lectures.

The directors of the Queensland Meat Export Agency Company are considerine the advisableness of throwing open all the spare room in the works at Townsviile and Brisbane as a public cold storage depot for farm and dairy produce. The regular fortnightly meeting of the Newmarket Borough Council was held last night, Mr. F. O. Clayton (Mayor), presiding. .Present: Messrs. Angus, Laurie, Page, and Lumpkin. The business was of an unimportant character, only some correspondence being dealt with. The Agricultural Department of Victoria has received a letter from Mr. N. Nicholas, of Coolgardie, suggesting that a good market for green fruit— as apples, pears, and lemons could be found at that mining township. In that dry country, he said, fruit was in demand all the year round, " seeing that on this field alone there must be 12,0 0 thirsty, tin-meat fed men all longing for green fruit." The department will probably take means to "est the market.