NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10264, 16 October 1896, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

, 'v. JPohf.rua arrived from South. jukaki due from Fiji. P Indramayo due from London next week, _%/ Hinemoa left for Government light* i% Louses. It has been decided to start a jam factory at Pabiatua. , A Masterton man had nearly a ton of potatoes stolen from him recently. A large supply of fleur and provisions is being sent from Sydney to Norfolk Island. Three persons were drowned through a boating accident on the coast of Tasmania. A miner named J. Flaherty lost an arm through an accident at Mount Morgan tune. On Tuesday a prohibited person was fined - <Ws and costs at Masterton for being found jo a hotel. Mr. W. Thorlev, of Mount Albert, has presented to the Library a copy of Walker's Rhyming Dictionary. There were in the lock-up last night two persons on charge? of drunkenness, and a man charged with lunacy. Quicksilver is reported to have been discovered on the Great Coolgardie Proprietary Blocks, within a mile of Coolgardie. •The Miners' Association ac Kalgoorlie State that there are large numbers of men out of employment on the goldfields. A large number of passengers are leaving' Melbourne for Capetown, including a large proportion of artisans of a superior class. The Central Queensland Meat Company are largely reducing the number of their employees, owing to the scarcity of fat cattle. Professor Carrollo and his pupils will give their annual carnival on Monday next, at the Opera House. An excellent programme lis been arranged. Last week Mr. William H. Russell, a carpenter, was instantaneously killed by an accident in connection with the lift At Danieli's Hotel, Brisbane. The City Council has authorised the Auckland Cricket Association to make a charge for admission to the Domain Cricket Ground and pavilion on November 6, 7. and 9. Mr. George Mann has sold his farm and Orchard, fronting the Fenconrt road, Cambridge, to Mr. G. Rich. The price paid is £17 en acre. Tbi orchard is one of best in the district. Heriot having been incorporated in tha Lawrence Electorate, the Tuapeka licensing committee will probably be asked to renew the license which was lost through the carrying of prohibition in Clutba. A sailor on the Mahinapua, named Heber Brown, had his left thumb crashed while discharging cargo at Nelson on Monday morning. It was found necessary to amputate the thumb as far as the first joint. The South Australian Executive Council has issued a proclamation prohibiting the Importation of Queensland cattle from beyond a certain line, and also vegetable &nd other products which may convey ticks. The search for the sunken yacht in which Messrs. Clifford and Stuart were drowned in the Pelorus Sound about a fortnight ago has been abandoned as hopeless. The whole of Flea Bay was dragged, but no trace could be found of either the yacht or the bodies. A girl named Crawford was found in the bush at Newington, DuubJin, in a very weak state. She was taken to the hospital, where she was detained for treatment. She was suffering from the effects of exposure —she had been a couple of days in the bush— also from want of food. The ; girl, who is about 13 years of age, had run i away from home. During the absence in Albury of George : Pardon, licensee of the Gap Hotel, lackan- i dandah, five children carried away to a paddock portion of a mixture of arsenic and salt stored in a room, and used for " curing skins, and partook of it. Lilian Pardon died at 4 p.m., and Mary Daley died next morning. A verdict of accidentally poisoned was returned in each case.