NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10408, 5 April 1897, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

TASMANIA arrived from South. Mamari due from London. Glenlora sailed for London. Anglian from Sydney to-day. Members left for Wellington _ New Zealand Natives Association meet

Aiffinglish mail arrives from Sydney by the Anglian to-day ... North Shore Sailing Club picnic on Satur-

day was 3 great success. Codlin moth has been discovered in smuggled apples confiscated at Fremantle. A sharp fro3t was experienced in most parts of Wairarapa on Wednesday morning. A man charged with the theft at Masterton of a horse, saddle, and bridle sold them to a constable. At tho end of the year there were 118 schools under the control of the Wellington Education Board. The Roman Catholic Archbishops and Bishops of Australia will meet the Cardinal in conference in Sydney after Easter. _ Four bankruptcies have been filed in Wairarapa during the last three months as against six for the same period last year. A violent hailstorm has occurred at Oakey Creek, Queensland. Several houses were unroofed] and the hailstones were two feet The ratepayers of Danevirke have agreed to a proposal to borrow £2500 for the purpose of completing the water supply scheme. Some fish poachers in the Nelson district, who used lime for killing trout, are to be prosecuted by the local Acclimatisation Society. The Manawatu Railway Company have imported two engines of the latest type from the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia. The vital statistics for February show that the births registered in Sydney and suburbs numbered 885, being 509 in excess of the deaths. It is reported that specimens of lignite, which should indicate the presence of coal, have been discovered on the Kuahine ranges behind Norsewood. At Corowa, New South Wales, a man was found in the local cricket ground in a dying condition, and expired while being conveyed to the hospital. Recently, John Delaney, a young man, suicided at York (West Australia), in the police cells, by hanging himself. He was suffering from delirium tremens. The Wellington Museum has been enriched by the addition of a complete skeleton of a large leopard seal, or Stenorhynchus leptonyx, captured in Cook Strait. _ It was 49 years on Monday last since the first settlers landed in Otago. Next year being the jubilee of the settlement, will be commemorated in some public way. Four young women were baptised in the Maitai River, at Kelson, last Monday, and wont through the trying ordeal heroically, though the water was unusually cold. Last Monday was the 37th anniversary of tho battle of Waireka, and a commemorative gathering of those who took part in the engagement was held at New Plymouth. An Order-in-Council appears in the New Zealand Gazette of the 25th March, in which is published the form of sheep return that has to be rendered by all sheepowners on the 30th April. The Maori Parliament will be held near Greytown this year. A fine house has been built, with several neat cottages for the reception of guests. Parliament is to bo opened with a dance. The Queensland Government is arranging to send Mr. G. Russell, late of Messrs. Overend and Co,, iron merchants, of Brisbane, to the United States as a commercial agent for Queensland. ,

A proposal is made for a great celebration of the Queeu's record reign at Marton. The scheme, which is being matured by the late Mayor, will include many novel features, and will extend over three days. The Deniliquin district, New South Wales, is said to resemble ft desert, owing to the prolonged drought. During the last two years and a half only a little over 26 inches of rain have fallen at Deniliquin. The number of rabbits in the Narth Wairarapa are steadily decreasing. Toxa poison has been used most effectively during the past season, and if it is followed up by systematic winter poisoning much good fill be done.