NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10100, 8 April 1896, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

fiSMANU gone to Sydney. Anglian left for the South. Flora arrived from the South. Cargo eteamer Matatua due from LonA child at Bourke swallowed a quantity Df caustic soda, and its recovery is doubt;* Ql ' A youth named Edward Hawkins was killed at Mudgeo by being thrown from a Wesleyan Sunday-school celebrates its thirty-fourth anniversary this Murine the month of March only one person was charged with drunkenness in Masterton. . The sneak-thief is particularly busy in Palmerston at present, and petty larcenies are frequent. . To get rid of the longgrass in the Carterton Cemetery the trustees intend, after the 14th inst., to turn in sheep. A kind of gastric fever, which attacks young men chiefly, is very prevalent ab Penrith, New South \\ ales. The West Australian Gorernmenb intends to give the goldfields increased representation in Parliament, and also a good water supply. The varnished eggs sent from the IdaWarra district, New South Wales, have arrived in London fairly fresh, but are unsuited for the table. A Frenchman named Berthond Nicholas received six months at the Central Police Court, Sydney, for abstracting £3 10s from a Chinaman's pocket. At Sydney a procession in connection with the Grand United Juvenile Temperance Festival was a mile and a-half long, and included 7650 children. Twenty aboriginals in war paint; formed a guard of honour on the occasion of tho landing of Lord Lamingtou, the new Governor of Queensland. An experiment of planting cane on limed soil, tried at the Government experimental farm, at Wollongbar, New South Wales, has proved very successful. A shocking railway fatality occurred near Albury the other morning, a woman named Bridget Davy being decapitated, and both her legs and one arm cut off. A Melbourne dentist, who is going through the Insolvency Court in that city, admitted that his income for the last two years was about £2000 per annum. With a paid up capital of £561, the Campbelltown Dairy Company sold £7020 worth of butter. The directors reported they had made no losses in the business. Shortly after the R.M.s. Austral cleared Sydney Heads the other day a second-class passenger fell overboard, and though bouts were lowered, no trace of him could be found. Through falling over a piece of wood on to some bricks at the rear of his residence in Sydney, Andrew Murdoch received internal injuries. Some of his ribs were also fractured. A great deal of inconvenience has been caused to graziers in the northern districts through the sudden prohibition by the West Australian Government of tho importation of life cattle. Disappointed gold seekers are returning to Newcastle from West Australia, and it is believed that in case of trouble the places of strikers would be rushed by these and by men from other districts. The total revenue of the Wellington Magistrate's Court for the quarter ending 31=t March was £557 17s Gd, made up as follow :—Civil fees, £712 2?; criminal fees, £31 8s 6d; criminal tines, £114 7s. During a storm at Palmerston last week, a valuable Jersey cow, the property of Mr. T. Nathan, was killed by lightning. The animal was standing alongside of a galvanised wire fence when she met her death. Four thousand cigars were found by the Sydney Customs officials on the China steamer Airlie concealed in the air-tighb compartments of the ships lifeboats. All an board professed ignorance of their presence. A fresh charge has been laid against Thomas Richardson James, which will be investigated at the Police Court to-day, Accused is charged with having forged a transfer of 200 shares in the Moanatairi North Gold Mining Company. At Bendigo a young man named Chesta wa3 sent to gaol for three months for inserting bogus advertisements for miners for Western Australia, and keeping the postage stamps they enclosed for replies. Over 90 letters containing stamps were sent to him. A married man named H. Turner was killed at Roaehe's sawmills, Narrandera, New South Wales. The unfortunate man was drawing logs, and the end of the log being drawn struck a dry pine tree and caused it to fall on his head. Death was instantaneous. Though no appointments had been made for the preceding five years, New South Wales on January 1 possessed 4321 Justices of the Peace. As requirements necessitate that this number should be increased, Mr. Brunker has just selected 300 additional names from 1000 nominations. Although the alterations have been made at the Police Station to afford quarters for a matron who will take charge of the female prisoners while in the lockup, nothing has been settled yet as to the appointment of that official. There are a number of applications in for the post. For some time past there has been a movement on foot to get the New Zealand branches of t'neTheosophical Society formed into a Section, that having been one of the objects of Miss Edgar's tour in the South, and her present trip to Melbourne and Sydney. Colonel H. T. Ollcott, President of the" Theosophical Society, having been communicated with on the subject, sent a cable message yesterday, granting the necessary permit. New Zealand thus makes the sixth Section of the Society, the others being respectively the Indian, European, Scandinavian, American, and Australasian Sections. Easter Day was observed at St. Barnabas Church by a celebration of the Holy Communion at 8 o'clock, morning prayer and Holy Communion at 11 o'clock, children's service at 3 o'clock, and evening prayer at 7 o'clock. At the two earlier services the congregations were large; tho evening service might have been better attended. The number of communicants for the entire day was larger than has been recorded in this church during its previous history. The music was very bright and hearty. Considering the great scarcity of flowers, the church was decorated with much taste and effect. A sermon suitable for the festival was preached by the vicar, the Roy. W. H. Johnston. Before ommencing his sermon, he expressed Ins thanks to tho ladies of the parish for their very generous and thoughtful Easter offering. This offering consisted of a very rich and costly silk cassock, cincture, and surplice, and also a purse of sovereigns.