NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10414, 12 April 1897, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

llanapoubi arrived from Soath. Upolu due from Eastern Pacific. Man gored to death near Wellington. Stabbine affray on board e.«. Mamari. Fire at North Shore yesterday morning. Rotomahana from Sydney this morning. The Manapouri brought a very large number of passengers from the South. The sum of £10019s has been subscribed towards a trial bore for artesian water in Maeterton. The sum of £4480 has been promised to the Wellington Cathedral Fund, of which £3991 has been received. Since the beginning of this year nineteen children have been committed to industrial schools from Wellington. It was stated at a City Council meeting, Sydney, that the council's overdraft amounts to something like £100,000.' Recently Charles Andrews, an old resident of Toowoomba, Queensland, was killed by his boree running him against a tree. A resident of Blenheim has received a communication from London, addressed "Blenheim, Marlborough, Auckland, New Zealand." Redwater has occurred amongst a team of bullocks in the Winton district of Queensland. The locality was previously free of the disease. The Victorian Government has granted the Riverinii pastoralists permieeion to depasture their stock in Victoria under Btringent conditions, The lady principal of the Dunedin Girls' High School has expressed the opinion that swimming should be made a compulsory subject tor pupils. Cliristchurch Truth has on its stafl a printer who is 83 years of age and has every prospect of many years of useful and active life in front of him yet. The aristocratic Weld Club, at Perth, has increased its entrance fee from £20 to £40, to restrict the influx of new-comers arriving well recommended. A commercial traveller named William Cameron mysteriously disappeared from the Bteamer Uaraoi during the voyage from Sydney to Newcastle the other night. During the quarter just ended the exports from Newcastle amounted to £418,129, an increase of £43,679, as compared with the corresponding period of last year. The Wellington Chinese have contributed £49153 to the Wellington Hospital Maintenance fund. This, with the subsidy of £1 4s in the £1, will amount to nearly £108. Juvenile crime appears to be on the increase in Wellington. Hardly a week ■passes without two or three small boys ■nder 14 years of ago appearing before the Magistrate. The Postmaster-General, of New South Wales, is considering, the advisability of issuing a new sot of postage stamps to celebrate the completion of the Queen's record reign. The date of the annual show of the Auckland Agricultural Association has not yet been fixed, bub a meeting will shortly be held at which that and other preliminary details will be arranged. Nelson fruitgrowers are complaining to the Agricultural Department of the presence of cottony cushiony scale iu their orchards, and it is intended tosendasupply of ladybirds across to the district. Operations in counection with the Central Otago experimental nursery at Clyde have not yet begun. The delay hae been cawed by the scarcity of water, but) in all likelihood this difficulty will be overcome before long. An ordinary meeting of the Harbour Board will be held to-morrow. Business: To open and consider tenders for (1) Travelling crane; (2) Cleaning and painting buoys and beacons; (3) Additions to shed I, Quay-street Jetty. The morbid taste of some people (says the Wellington Post) is illustrated by the ehoal of requests made to the Sheriff for orders to see the execution of Stephen Bosher, should it be decided by the Executive that the law must take its course. Six red dear have now been liberated in the Wainui-o-mata Corporation Reserve, above the dam, and as these animals are exceedingly tame, shooting above tho dam has been forbidden by the City Council, at the reauest of the Acclimatisation Society. The Timaru Herald suggests, as cancer is of such a deadly character, and is generally attended with «uch,a terrible amount of suffering to the patients, that ib would be an excellent thing if an international effort were made by the medical profession to collect all available information, and if possible determine the cause or causes from which the disease springe. A lad named Thomas McAviney, living at South Katoomba, met with an accident recently. Hβ was examining an old gunpowder tin to see if it contained any powder, and striking a match, the light accidentally fell into the tin, and an explosion immediately followed. Dr. Spark was ab once called in, and although the boy's eyes were at first thought to be injured, be is now progressing favourably.