NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10044, 3 February 1896, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

« Jlanapouri from Sydney this morning. The Yacht Club Races on Saturday were liceedingly interesting. A young albatross was captured in a slaughterhouse yard at Otaki, last week. Annual meeting of Auckland Gas Com* | pany takes place to-day at half-past two m - . • Owing to the inrush of immigrants, bread ran short at Perth (W.A.) the other Saturday night. Regatta Committee meet tomorrow night to transact business in connection with the late regatta. The now contract for the Canadian mail service contains a prohibition of employment of coloured labour. Seldom, if ever, has New England seen a better hay crop than the one now being harvested, says an Armidale paper. An epidemic of typhoid, which recently prevailed at Port Adelaide, is abating. Altogether 30 cases were reported. Large numbers of sheep for freezing purposes were sent to Wellington from the VVairarapa Railway Station last week. A number of frost fish were thrown up on the beach at Greymouth the other day, It is something new, it is said, for an occurrence of this kind to happen in the summer. Lake Macquarie is reported to be full of small sharks. About the flats some fairly big fellows are seen daily bunting the fish in the channel. It is stated that a local firm at Oamaru has already sold about 6000 feet of glass to repair part of the damage done by the recent hailstorm. In the list of those who had passed the matriculation examination in Saturday's paper, the name "J. M. Darby" should Lave been I. M. K. Darby. The man Clarke, who left Denniston on a prospecting tour in the Lyell district two months ago, and about whose safety some anxiety was fait, has returned to Denniston. Morven Hills shed cut out, on the I6th January, only about 50,000 sheep having been shorn, leaving 65,000 to account for, 115,000 having been turned out after last »h earing. Opossums liberated by the Nelson Acclimatisation Society in various parts of the district are said to be increasing. Those set free by the Wellington Society are also doing well. There were in the lockup last evening a prisoner on a charge of drunkenness, and Kate Hinch on a charge of larceny of three bags and a lace handkerchief, tho property of Dr. Haines. Two sailing vessels, with 1150 coolies from Calcutta, principally for the Colonial Sugar Co.'s plantations, are expected at Fiji in April and May. The vessels will take about 500 coolies back. The tangi bel l at Urenui over the Maori chief Rangi Lloyd, and afterwards con tinued at Parihaka, is reported to have cost £500. Kangi was a prominent personage in ploughing European land some years ago. The importance of the Tamworth district in connection with the pastoral industry may be judged by the fact that '275 persons owning 500 sheep and upwards made returns to that effect to the C.P.S. during 1595. Shearing is now pretty well finished in the Oamaru district, and, except on the ' back stations, where a heavy loss of sheep occurred during the severe winter, the ; clip has been a good one, and well up to j the a vet age. On the passage of the barque Hermes from the Baltic to Adelaide a seaman named K. Aberg fell from aloft, and although the vessel was doing 10 knots before a brisk breeze she was rounded to and a boat lowered, but no trace of the man could be discovered. A man named George Chapman fell off a iramcar in Wellington the other night. He was taken in a cab to the Central Police Station, Lambton quay, where it was found that he had his right leg badly grazed, and that the skin had also been taken oS his right hand. An accident befel a man named Walter Kingsmill on the Midas property, in Western Australia. He was down one of the ehaft? when he discovered foul air, and attempted to raise himself by a rope. When near the top, he became exhausted, and fell 30 feet. He is progressing favourably.