NEWS IN BRIEF

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10098, 6 April 1896, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF

Easter Monday. Races (it Ellerslie. Anglian from Sydney to-day. Tasmania arrived from South. French warship gone to Noumea. Volunteer encampment breaks up to-day. Large number of water excursions today. Matatua from London, expected this week. Cargo steamer Waikato lefb London for Auckland.

The late rain has done much good all over the country. A very large shipment of American leather has been received at Sydney. Some mean thief stole the grapes from the Masterton Hospital the other night. Building at the North Shore and Lake Takapuna is very brisk at prosent, and likely to be more so. Aquatic Carnival of the West End Rowing Club on Lake Takapuna, on Saturday, was a great success. For having used a transferred half of a railway ticket a man named Firkins was fined £20 at Sydney. Two men named Thomas Noble and Georgo Low were injured at Contonnial Park, Sydney, through tlio premature explosion of a dynmite charge. The accidents are attributed to defects in the fuses. Whilst driving down a hill on the Fitzherbert Road, Palmerston, on Tuesday, Air. and Mrs. E. J. Armstrong were thrown out of their trap owing to some part of the harness giving way. Mr. Armstrong was cut about the head and Mrs. Armstrong was considerably shaken. The Public Works Department intends to put moro men on at the works in connection with the erection of additions to the Government Printing Office. There are at the present timo IGS patients in Wellington Hospital— 21 of them suffering from typhoid fever. There has not been a single death in tho Hospital from typhoid this season. At Brisbane John Kerr, stationmaster at the racecourse station, was killed the other night. Ho was engagod shunting a horsebox, and it is supposed ho slipped on the rails. Up to January 1, whon tho financial year closed, over £107,000 worth of gold had been taken out of tho Great Boulder mino, in Western Australia. Crushing started on April 10, 1895. A number of natives from Maungatapu are at present at iMaungarewa, in tho bush, cutting timber for the erection of a large meeting housa, which will be built at their settlement. It is proposed to run an electric tramway along George-street, Sydney, to tho Circular Quay, and tho Railway Commissioners intend ultimately to transform the whole of the steam system into an electric system.

Information has reached Thursday Island that tho supplies at Daru, British Now Guinea, aro very short, and tho whole of the residents have been reduced to short allowances. Very little elso than native sago is obtainable. The dead body of a newly-born female child was found in the Melbourne Cemetery. The remains were wrapped up in an old handkerchief and some pieces of paper, but there was nothing to establish any cluo to identity. It is stated that Dr. Levinge, of Southland, who is making arrangements for tho manufacture of potash on an extensive scale, will probably obtain a considerable proportion of tho ashes from tho Hokitika sawmillers. The little daughter of Mr, J. L. Murray, of Masterton, who sustained a severe compound fracture of tho arm, is very likely to lose tlio injured limb. The bone has splintered into the arteries and circulation cannot bo obtained. A farmer in Victoria has discovered that onion-growing pays. His plan is to irrigate from a creek by moans of a California!! pump. From one acre last year ho obtained 10 tons of onions and 10 bags of seed, returning £45 profit] for tho former alone. At tho Bell Block (Taranaki) races a swarm cf flies came along and for a time made everyone particularly uncomfortablo. After a while they disappeared, much to the relief of a largo number of visitors who had been frantically waving their handkerchiefs. The Rauroka estate, in tho Hawke's Bay district, which was recently acquired by the Government, will be put on the market shortly in the form of small farms. The land was originally a part of tho Firmley estate, a portion of tho famous Herotaunga Plain, known as one of the best agricultural districts in Now Zealand.