NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9927, 17 September 1895, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

MANAPOURI for Sydney to-day. Large quantity of produce being sent) to Sydney. , x A pickpocket was sent bo gaol for six months yesterday. , , . Trout-fishing promises to be taKen up enthusiastically in the Wairarapa this is now fetching at auction in Sydney the highest price known for eight y< The meeting of creditors in the estate of Ralph Heron, which was to have been held yesterday, lapsed owing to their nob being * The rails have been laid Newman Station from the southern end of theLketabuna railway line. , , Thirty-six men have been drafted from the Permanent Artillery to the Police Force during the past year. . There is great mining activity on Horn Island, in Torres Straits, and new reefs, which prospect well, continue to be found. Gibbin Hall, in Tasmania, which contained one of the most extensive libraries in the colonies, has been destroyed by fire. The amount assured per head in the Australasian colonies is £19, or double that of Canada, and £7 more than for the United trade bills which fell due on '' the 4th" were very well met, as far as Sydney was concerned, but advices from the country are less encouraging. _ ~ . , A large rush has set in south or the Boulder, Coolgardie, and if the find bo good enough a town may be established nve miles from Hannan's. The North Otago Times understands that a memorial is to be sent to the Minister for Lands, asking that the Ardgowan estate should not be taken over. _ A number of sheep belonging to settlers on the Opaki, were worried by dogs on Friday. A hunt was instituted and two of the offending canines were shot. The Sydney Chamber of Commerce will be represented at the third congress of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire, in London, next year. A miner named W. J. Nichols was blown ten yards by an explosion of heated dynamite cartridges at Crow Mountain, near Barraba, and frightfully injured. No fewer than 500 meals to unemployed 1 men were given at the Napier Salvation Army Barracks in July ana August, and 208 found a night's shelter there. The Stock Inspector at Naseby (Mr. D. Kerr) has been instructed to forward a statement of the probable loss of stock in his district during the late severe winter. Complaints are made by the Dunedin members of the Ladies' Cycling Club that when they appear they are subjected to annovarice by men as well as larrikins. The bore on the racecourse at Wanganui is down 675 feet, which is said to be the deepest artesian well in the colony. A good supply of water has been obtained. A member of the firm of Brun, Marchesa and Co., Paris, is about to visit Brisbane, to investigate the matter of importing Queensland beef direct into France and Belgium. A Mrs. Moss, of Echuca, who alleged that she had been shot in the breast by an unknown assailant, has confessed that she shot herself because of a quarrel with her husband. An anti-alien society has been formed at Ballina,in New South Wales, the members pledging themselves not to employ any Asiatic in clearing land or in connection with suaar planting. There was one prisoner in the lock-up for drunkenness last evening; also Wm. Francis Petford charged with obscene language, and also with damaging the uniform of Constable Wainhouse. A quartermaster named John Milne, belonging to the R.M.s. Australia, which arrived at Sydney recently, met with a painful accident as the vessel was being moored in Neutral Bay. The starboard cable was being paid " out, when by some means Milne was caught in it, sustaining a compound fracture of the left arm.