NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10417, 15 April 1897, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Herald Sdmmarx. Bosher is to be hanged. Richmond due from Fiji. 'Frisco mail leaves on Saturday. Alameda from Sydney to-morrow. Society of Arts Exhibition opened. Asterion arrived to load for London. Upolu fot the Eastern Pacific this IngAuckland Chrysanthemum Show close) (his evening. Melanesian Mission yacht arrived from Norfolk Island. The Poherua leaves (or Weitporfc today to load coal for Fiji. The sugar cane crushing season at Fiji is very early this year. At Labasa, Fiji, some 80,000 tone of cane Kill be cruihed this season. From Fiji the Poherua proceeds to Faning Island with coal for the warships. Ten thousand rabbits were received at the Mataura Freezing Works, on Saturday. The financial journal Money thinks the present) position of Newt Zealand most satisfactory. During last month, £71,038 was remitted from West Australia through the money order ofcee. The Ureytown petition praying for the free pardon of Louis Chemia contains nearly two hundred names. Reports from the South state that the stoats and weasels are proving a worse pest than the rabbits which they are intended to exterminate. A fashionably-drensed young man, a recent arrival from New York, was fined £5, or one month, in Melbourne, on a charge of shooting at Elizabeth Barnes. The defence put forward in a horsestealing case at New Plymouth was that the accused stole a ride and not the horse. The police desire to find an owner for a philister side plane and a small iron plane. These articles were found in possession of a person in custody on a charge of larceny. The Major-General has approved of the formation of a bicycle club by the warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the military forces of New South Wales. Yesterday at Messrs. Samuel Cochrane and Sons' Auction Mart, Queen-street (Mr. J. Dacre, auctioneer), Mr. Watson's farm at Ardmore, containing 100 acres, and known as Helenbanks, was offered by auction, but failed to find a purchaser. Disease threatens to destroy the oyster fisheries of Queensland. So serious has the peet become that large consignments of oysters to Sydney and Melbourne have been returned to shippers. An attempt has been made to eradicate the disease by dredging op whole beds of oysters, removing them up small creeks, and burning them. Our Omaha correspondent states that the scow Ida that went ashore on Takatau Point, on Friday last, was got off on Sunday morning by means of jacks. The bottom planking was very much dented inwards, but was pressed back with jacks, and temporarily repaired, so that by keeping the pump going she was gob into Omaha, where ehe will be repaired. A statement of steamers berthed at the Glasgow wharf, Napier, from 22nd Oetober, 1895, to 31st March, 1897, shows that out of 246 steamers, 232 have been safely berthed at the wharf ; three have only landed passengers and mails ; six have been tendered under the lee of the breakwater ; three have been tendered in the bay; and two have passed on, the wiather being too tough to tender them. Ten thousand Presbyterians in Victoria and 9000 in New South Wales have petitioned the Federal Convention, praying that in the preamble of the Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth there shall be recognition of Almighty God as the Supreme Ruler of Nations, and ultimate source of righteous law and liberty amongst peoples. It also asks that in cases of national peril or deliverance the GovernorGeneral shall have power to proclaim a day of national supplication or thanksgiving.