NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10111, 21 April 1896, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Anglian gone to Sydney. Tasmania for the South this afternoon. 'Frisco mail etlamer will probably arrive to-morrow. A nother new gasoline launch on exhibition in the harbour. Fresh fish on ico was sold ab Coolgardio for the first time on March 26. New Northern Company's steamer Wai" marie had a very successful trial trip yesterday. A lomplaint similar to gastfio fever is still pinvalenb at Penrith, New South Wales. One hundred and forty cases of cheese left Feathereton last week for the Loudon market. Brick? are jwco in Dunedin, and 'the price is 7s per thousand above that whiob prevailed a month ago. During the nextrouiounfc season the! idit= i Government will require '.'346 Australian, Tasmania!), and Cape horses. A little boy named George Orahain was accidentally drowned in a buckeb of eoapBuds at Maidstone (Victoria). During the last few days some very large* mobs of sheep have passed through EketaLuna, one lot numbering 5000. During the last fourteen years only one employee of the Wairarapa North County Council has met with an accident. Some of tlio sottlers at Nevertire, New South Wales, we plagued with grasshopper?, which are eating everything before them. The resumption of work in the damaged portion* of the Brunner mine necessitates the employment of about fifty men in coalhewing. The proposal of the Manawatu Land l)r linage Board to borrow £7600 haa been carried. Only one vote was recorded in opposition. The system has been initiated at the new Totara Flat Dairy Factory, Grey Valley, of paying for milk according to its productive value, at per centum of butter fat. A fall of earth in tho Hailleigh Castlo mine at Rochford (Queensland) caused the death of a miner named Frederick Rainbow,

two others narrowly escaping. The late rains followed by fcho warm weather of thd past few days, havo made a wondfrful difference in the appearance of the country in the North Wairarapa. At the request of the Wellington Eight Hours' Committee tho Premier has consented to present them with a photograph of himself] as chief patron of the committee. New arrivals ac Coolgardje have now an unexpected hardship to endure. According to correspondence just to hand, tho weather is so cold that many are complaining bitterly. Maize smut is more prevalent about Richmond than usual, ami though tho yields of maize in some instances are phenomenally high, the average is considered below that of last year. A night-watchman named Thomas C!?rke, employed at Garton'a livery stables, Melbouurne, was kicked by a horse, and recciied such severe internal injuries that he died some hours after. During the year ending March 31 last 54,"230 sheep, and 2690 bales of wool, were despatched from the Carterton railway station, beincr an increase over the previous ylar of 13,000 nheep and 110 bales of wool. The other ciay a nun was prosecuted for stealing a Water bottle from the Sydney Anglican Church. Tiio day following the trial there was left on the verger's doorstep o pile cf articles that, at dirers times, had been taken from the church by mistake. Since the opening of the present dairy produce season, in September, '29,14'2c«t butter, and 15,115cwt cheese have been exported from New Zealand to London. Victoria exported, in the same period, 1'26,017ewt butter and 16cwfc cheese, and >.ew South Wales (owing to the drought) only lU37cwt butter.