NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10117, 28 April 1896, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

v-"' ffimonk arrived from Sydney. , • ; v •School Committee elections last night. Tararua ranges are covered with snow. ->• Tarawera leaves for Sydney this evening. ' There were seven stowaways on the Waihora from Sydney. It is intended to lay down a bicycle track •as one of the;adjuncts tf the Wellington Exhibition. 5 " ' The Hawera Borough Council are contemplating a loan of £29,000 for a water and drainage scheme. . ... • . ' It is reported thab diphtheria has made its appearance amongst the Maoris at Mofcniti, Foxton. , „ . . The Rockhampton Harbour Board has decided to offer she municipal council £25,000 for their wharves. ' l At Balclntha last week a man was fined 30s and costs for ehooting a pigeon ab Owake, Otago, on the sth April. I lb is fltated that the Wellington Land t Board have about 400 applications for about 7803 acres available for settlement. The Levin people, following the lead of Otaki, are agitating for the establishment of a cottage hospital in thab town. The Westport Coal Company has withdrawn from negotiations for charters, owing to the muddle in connection with tho stranding ef the barque Coromandel at Weutporb. The Rev. Siegfried Crieg. German clergyman at Charters Towers, has died from the effects of mercurial poisoning, caused by using a preparation of mercury for preserving butterflies. lb is stated by a Dunedin resident thab a new process of condensing milk has been discovered by which it will be possible to make a substantial profit after paying 4d per gallon for the milk. The Perth Morning Herald strongly deprecates the employment of Germans in the West Australian civil service, and demands thab appointments should be restricted to Australians and Britishers. A son of Mr. R. Hannah, of Clareville, bad the misfortune, a few days ago, to run a four inch piece of wood, besides .two others of considerable size, into the back of bis leg through falling off a tree. At Wellington, on Wednesday last, Mr. Robert Carmichael, jun., of the firm of Carmicbael and Son, builders, accidentally lost the middle finger of his right hand, having it taken off in a planing machine. The New South Wales Government, the

Premier states, will make one step next session which will hate an important effect on the liquor traffic, in legislating for the prevention of the adulteration of food and drink. A deadlock has occurred at South Makaretn in connection with 1 school masters. When the master rang tho bell last Monday morning not a child (and it is alleged they were acting on parental orders) pub in an appearance. The maize crops are being harvested on tho northern rivers of New South Wales, and while in some instances the yields are phenomenal, the average is considered to be somewhat below that of last year, owing

chiefly to disease. At Palmerston, last week, Mr. 3. H. Fry received some severe bruises through a fall from his horse when riding over his farm. Owing to one of his feet hanging in the stirrups Mr. Fry was dragged some distance before getting free. As a number of cyclists were riding round the Masterton Park Oval Track on Sunday morning the foremost rider fell, bringing down others, with: the result that two bikes were completely smashed, but the riders escaped without serious injury. A party of pig' Shooters in the bush near Waitotara very nearly, succeeded in "potting" a man named Bucßanan the other day, - Buchanan had on a sou'-wester, and was climbing a hill in a stooping position, when the sbootists mistook him for a pig and fired, with the result that a bullet passed through his hat. The following is the state of Her Majesty's prison, Auckland, for week ending April 25 On remand, 1 mala; awaiting trial, 8 males; penal servitude, 17 males *, hard labour, 76 males, 11 females; default of bail, 2 males, 1 female; received during the week, 10 males, 2 females; discharged, 17 males, 1 females. Total in prison, 105 males, 12 females.