NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9832, 29 May 1895, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

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labcrarfThe 116 th English Derby is to be ran today at £pt<csa. , . _ A laboar vend recently broajnt si recreate to Qaesnalasd. Halfboßday case* commenced yesterday. fhey are not yet eooeiaded. Twobandirai [rf—""f;*« , « from hew «*■ land arrrred in Sydney on May !*■ A namber of disappointed prospectors bare returned from COoJsardie to Sydney. A girl swallowed the heads 0* »*; ""J" of cocoes at Brisbane. Tee r<ss.M were

At the SvdiKT Canary Shew, tbe sates amounted to £*>. odb bird «*!»*»* £ Acting to Mr. E. Ben, the »*?« Harboar Baud buildings arc & piece « «* r la some portion? of central Riverraa. owing to t£ droogk* i*" « being killed to save lbs metier eneep-_ The care of * diphtheria patten'; limoart « tbe bet gar* by «eM«o| feta-wxta ana tracheotomy, fa reported fcona Oonlbora It ti estimated nasi it woeaa cost toe dry 1 CosatS £30.00® to boy tbe Freeman's Bay ; reclamation and convert it is to a recreation ; Ti* disposal of the Freeman's Bay ; reclamation »*.« again considered by the ( Harbour Board yesterday, and. again ad- j j«troeid. A child cf fifteen months named Ethel ! King was scalded to death at Adelaide ! by polling & kettte of boiling water on to < btneil. Michael Breonan, a, swipias, who was ; the worse for Ik; nor nt tbe time, was burnt < to death in a hat at iltreoolpa, South Australia. At Thursday Island tbe Japanese hare «*■ lasted abont £300 for the porposeof balding a demonstration to celebrate the caadswaoa of peace in the East. A" man named Samuel Kennedy was killed while horning oS timber near Orange, j Mi bead being smashed in by a failing tree, | fc&d bis right leg and ana being bimt off. _ ; A meeting cf creditors in tbe estate of ; THaon Smith, chemist, of Onebasga, which j was to bare been beM yesterday at the j Official Assignee's Office, lapsed toe wast j of a qnoram. Ata protectionist meeting La Yoasg, to J protest against the removal of tbe Dxbbt tariff, an amendment approving of Mr. | Red's Budget proposals was carried by a j tbree-feacdu) majority. The Newcastle Board cf Health has re- I ceived from London a supply of tetanus | anti toxin, a cere foe lockjaw, made on the j same principle* aad ia a similar way to j diphtheria anti-toxin. The Victorian Government is going to S spend a total of over £90,00000 new railway j work*. They are now employing 1100 men j and will pat on an additional 300. No ca- j iEployed dis.:a!:y i? anticipated. _ j A yoasg man met with a shocking death I at Melbourne. He was eaogbt by some j machine belting, which was revolving at a j high rat* of speed, and before the machinery j ccrald be stopped his tody was literally | torn to piece*. _ j Regarding the proposal to cremate the ; body"of a patient who recently dlvi at 1 Aibary from anthrax, the chief medical I officer to tbe Government has advised that *acb a coarse is 'jriafccse i i'»ary, becaas*, altboajrb the germ of anthrax remains io the body, tbe danger of infection L; practically removed by burial A singular divorce case has been heard in Victoria. Alex. >ioail obtained a decree against bis wife en the ground of desertion. j His wife left the cfaarch after tb* wedding j and went to ber cosher'?, while the has- j band was to prepare the bouse. For reasons cot stated the wife took ares-rica to her fcasbaxid, &nd oeTer lived with hica.