NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9976, 13 November 1895, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

_ || -« jc tIfOMJ to Fiji to-day._ *%&*. ! Anoiher fire ab Napier. 1 Boating fatality at Dnnedin. ' Kotomahana for Sydney to-daft Races at Ellerslie this afternoon. London Missionary Society's steamer left for the Islands yesterday. There were in the lock-up lasfc evening two persons on charges of drunkenness. Tn the city of Sydney last month there were registered 243 births and 166 deaths. The Wainui Railway Station, on the Wellington- line has been closed. The Harbour Board hare decided to proseed with the erection of No. 3 Jetty, Quay. jt The'South Australian Government's offer Of £110,000 for the Glenelg Railway Co. s line has been declined. The Harbour Board will probably raise a farther loan of £10,000 for expenditure on the new Quay-street jetty. A Goldfields National League has been formed at Coolgardie, and all the centres of the West Australian goldfields. Owing to the increwo in the number of condensers at work, the domestic water supple at Coolgardie is improving. _ A large shipment of Firth's pumice was sent to Melbourne by tho Tarawera yesterdav for the Geelong Freezing Works. A man named Temple was fined 103 ab Bendigo for allowing six does to attack a constable who had a summons to servo. The estimated cost of the new jetty off Quay-street is £19,700, which includes cost of dredging to give a depth of 20 feet of water. The quantity of gold received for coinage 'at the Sydney Mint for tho ten months ending October was 615,7540z, valued at £2 232 101. The' Dalefield Dairy Factory is now receiving 2400 gallons of milk daily, and the Taratahi factory 1600 gallons. This is greatly in excess of last year. A petition signed by 4200 persons was presented to the Harbour Board yesterday, f asking that Freeman's Bay be handed to the City Council as a recreation reserve. While loading a cartridge shell which had a defective cap, a young resident of Uralla exploded the charge, having two of his fingers blown off and his chest injured to such an extent that his life is despaired of. A few nights ago the constable at Eltham was seen making for the railway station with a drunk on a wheelbarrow. It seems there is no iock-uD ab Eltham, and the inebriated man had to be conveyed by train to Hawera. Ad the Supreme Court, yesterday, His Honor Mr. Justice Conolly held a sitting in Chambers. The only business was an application made by Mr. Hesketh to grant probate in the estate of James Carmichael, deceased. The order, as prayed, was granted. _______________