NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10010, 23 December 1895, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ksGLiAV gone South. Tarawora from Sydney to-day. Kotomahana from the South to-day. Mount Slrion arrived from Calcutta, 'Frisco steamer loaves Sydney to-day. Tho Harbour Board meet this afternoon for general business. In the Mahia district of Hawko a Bay tho Mormons have MO Maori converts. EidiD deaths from cancer were recorded in the colony during the month of NovemCoastal eteriinora on Saturday full of passengers coming to town for the holiThe Mayor of Mastorton thinks that half the borough gas rate may be remitted next 'Teed right through the North Wairarapa is at present mure luxuriant thill) for many | years past). „ , Two women, named King and Daly, were Struck by lightning at Islington (3.A.), and seriously injured. . . , , At GO Court-houses and magistrates office* in the colony, tho oflico-cleaners go!) £1200 a year among thorn. A little boy named Ernest Hinos accidentally killed himself at> Walcha while playing with a loaded gun. An actor named John Watson, professionally known as John Walton, hanged himself in an outhouse in Sydney the other ( About 'Mfjil tront fry vrero liberated on two lakel f, ts on the Remarkables by some young adventurers, who scaled tho tnounW A company is being formod in Brisbane to cut a channel through tho south passage of Moreton Bay, thus earing a journey ol Anti-toxin injection has proved efficacious at Moree in an adult case of malignant diphtheria which had been neglected for a M Two brakes with milk for the Featherston factory came to grief together last Tuesday, and 130 gallons of milk were lost in conscAn elderly woman namod Crittle _ attempted to drown herself in the river Murray at Albury, but was rescued by a man named Allan. It is stated that a very much larger number of men than now engaged will bo employed at the Broken Kill mines at tho beginning of the year. A girl named Emily Richards, who was bitten bv a lly near Wagga, Now South Wales, died in the local hospital from anthrax poisoning. The other night an elderly man named William Spencer was run over by a tram near Bithnvsr-street. Sydney, and received injuries which caused his death two hours later. A Chinaman who attempted to commit Suicide in Adelaide a few days ago by shooting himself in the chin, gave as his reason for the deed, "No use me live ; can't pay debt?-" A young man named Sydney Hams was, at Ballarat, sent to gaol for nine month* for assaulting his step daughter. _ Hams bad married a widow, and eloped with her daughter. Experiments in Queensland point to the Conclusion that the red-water diseaso in cattle is due soleiy to ticks, and that it i' not communicable frcrn one boast to another by means of ticks. At Wellington, on Wednesday last, a young man engaged in the rigging of tho barque V* eatherstield had bis right arm broken by a rope giving way and allowing the main topmast to fall on the limb.