NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10278, 2 November 1896, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Aiambda gone to 'Frisco. . ,> . ' Newhaven won the V.R.C. Derby. ■ p.; Tasmania from Sydney this morning. ;■'. I ,■ The coal export from Westporfc last week amounted to 6796 tons. ■■- *;. ~ ?/■ , The southern districts of West Australia are suffering terribly from drought. p It is estimated that fully £100 has been S" paid away xat Foxton for whitebait this season, A motion to abolish the office of AgentGeneral was negatived in the Victorian Assembly recently. While" showing a friend a revolver in Sydney, a mau named Fred Oakes accidentally shot himself in the thigh. The Mackay Sugar Journal now estimates the probable output of sugar in Queensland for the present season at 96,000 tons. During *the month of September the Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company treated 10,595 tons of stone for a yield of . 12,C680z gold. . . ■ It is proposed to hold an engineering and electrical exhibition in the Sydney Exhibition Building during the months of June, Jalv, and August. , . , Between the effects of hail and wind, there will be but little fruit in the southern border district of New South Wales during the coming season. The result of the year's at the Elfcham co-operative dairy factory is that the suppliers receive a fraction under 2sd per gallon of 101b for the season. The Rev. Roberb Angus, a Presbyterian minister, stated, during the hearing of a case at Melbourne, that he was employed by a matrimonial agency to celebrate marriages at 25s per week. The fine weather during the last few weeks has had tho effect of enabling the brickmakers to get a stock of bricks on hand, the supply of bricks being now more than ample for the demand, The Banjo, Mandolin, and Guitar Club, conducted by Herr Ziramermann, visited the Asylum on Thursday evening, and rendered a programme of music, which* afforded a welcome treat to the inmates. In Victoria the Government have two forest nurseries, one containing 480,000 trees, the other 230,000. The Government supply trees free to those who will plant, and they send out an average of 150,000 trees. In the Court of Appeal, in tho case of William Neville Ward, of Otaki, solicitor, against whom an application was made by the Wellington District Law Society, the Court made an order striking the solicitor off the roll*. , 'About 40 miles of cable is coming out to ' tho colony by the steamer Rakaia, which ' left London on the 19th September. It will be stored at Wellington in reserve, to be used in the event of accident to the cables ; now laid down. \ The number of artisans and other workmen employed on the co-operative works in ' New Zealand for September last were :— ' Survey Department, 1323; Public Works ' Department. 882; and Levin State Farm, ' 21: total, 2226. j As Mr?. John Marshall, of Worser Bay, . Wellington, was standing alongside a light draught horse near her husband's house, . the animal struck her a violent blow on the ! chin and breast with both its fore feet, ] inflicting ugly wounds. Bishop Cowie states that the attitude of ■ the Christian nations of Europe, who are looking on while the Armenian Christians are being slaughtered by the Turks with- E out doing anything to save them, is a c dreadful reproach to all Christendom. An ordinary meeting of the Devonport Borough Council will be held to-morrow. Business: Deed of dedication and instru- r ment of transfer of public road on western ' side of Church-street to Her Majesty the £ Queen, for consent of the Council. The anniversary of the Onehuuga Wes- c leyan Band of Hope was colebrated last " Friday night in the schoolroom, when the . whole of the programme was contributed by juvenile members. The entertainment ' was much appreciated by the large audi- L ence. c The name of 'Jack' Howe is a household word among the shearers in New South Wales and Queensland. He has hold for some time the record for fast cutting. At Alice Downs recently he eclipsed his own 1 record and that of all others by shearing t 338 ewes in eight hours. i A house on the Petone Esplanade, Wei- ' lington, was struck by lightning during the l other night's storm. The electric fluid was j apparently attracted by a wire clothes line, . which was fastened at one end of the build- , ing. It teok an upward direction, and . escaped through the eaves spouting. i The result of the self-denial week in c connection with the Wanganui branch of i the Salvation Army has been most successful, no less a sum than £137 having been raised, and it is expected that the amounb will be brought up to £140. This amount c is nearly £50 in excess of that raised last ] year. t In our report ol the Auckland Old 5 Chums and Schoolfellows' Association reunion on Friday evening last we omitted to mention that Mr. J. A. Pike was 5 responsible for the decorations, which were • of a most artistic and elaborate character, , and reflected high credit on that gentle- r man. } At a meeting of riflemen in Sydney, ib t was decided to send a team to compete at Bisley next year. The team is to be repre- I tentative of all the colonies. The cost is ' estimated to be about £120 or 150 per man, " and it is stated that a gentleman in Ade- , laide is willing to pay the cost of that j colony's representative. , Whilst a man named James Graham was i driving his cart, laden with timber, near r Tory-street, Wellington, he was caught by [ the full forceof wind.and the cart jolting f nt the same time, he fell into the roadway, t striking his bead, and becoming uncon- ' scions. The man was taken to the hospital, where it was found that he had received c slight concussion of the brain. He later on j . recovered consciousness, and is now doing £ well. {