NEWS IS BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10422, 21 April 1897, Page 6

NEWS IS BRIEF.

f AIMANiA gone South. Anglian from South late to-night. Diphtheria ia prevalenb in many puts of the Wairaraps. The cost of the Federal elections ia New South Wales wa« £19,000. The Eketahuna paper says pheuante are becoming plentiful around Newman. The Gisborne artesian bore is down 705 feet, but no water has yet been struck. A Danevirle settler had two valuable draught horeei killed by • falling tree during a gale. The bands on the W«st CoMfc will shortly hold a contest at Westport. Over £80 will be given In prize money. The Post thinks the men who compos* the present Parliament are a distinct) improvement upon their predecessors. The Newmarket Borough Council held ite ordinary meeting yesterday evening. The business was of a routine nature. An exchange aeeerte that Australia has more places of public worship in proportion to population than any other country. A large and enthusiastic audience greeted the third performance of Bernard's Circus yesterday night in the Agricultural Hall. A miner named William Thompson was killed at the Block 10 mine, Broken Hill, and his mate, Samuel Thomas, was injured. Victorian food products to the estimated value of £36,555 have been exported to the United Kingdom during the past fortnight. At the end iof March there were 2442 men on Government co-operative works, including 15 employed on the Levin State Farm. There were in the lockup, last evening, two persons on charges of drunkenness, and Edmund Burke, for theft of 18s 6d from the Empire Hotel. A family at Nelson named Hunt were bereft of father and mother within a week. Mr. Hunt had been connected with the Magistrate's Court at Nelson for twenty-two year?. During March the Labour Department assisted 35 married and 34 single unemployed men, 19 of whom were sane to private employment and 50 to Government works. Two valuable instruments and a dram belonging to the Apiti Brass Band were destroyed in the late fire at Apiti. The instruments were valued at between £30 and £40. Nominations of the lollowing candidates have been received for the election of City schools committeemen ;—Dr. King, Messrs. Squirrell, Crowe, Blades, Farrell, Rosser, and Adams. It is stated that some evil-diiposed person has tired two or three times at a cow belonging to Mr. Shute, of Taihape, and inflicted terrible injuries on it. The police are investigating the matter. Mr. Ben Tillett is resting at the Hanmer Springs Sanatorium, and will not return to Wellington for a few days yet. His health has improved since ho has been in New Zealand, but it- is still far from satisfactory. Only one drunkard <vas brought up at the Police Court yesterday morning, in spite of the fact that the previous d»y was a public holiday, and Mr. George Kent, J. P., the presiding justice, dismissed him with a caution.

The horses of tho Sydney Fire Brigade have been trained to rush to the pole of the engine when the electric current opens the doors of their stable. The harness is then dropped on them, and the engine can be gob ID seven seconds.

At the census taken this time twelve months there were 85,622 bachelors aged 20 years and upwards, and 87,408 spin■ters aged 15 years and upwards, in the colony. Of these, 14,804 and 14,167 were Wellington bachelors ami spinsters respectively. On Easter Monday, 68 passengers left Auckland for the Helcnsville race, bub this number was swelled at intermediate stations. There were 2800 carried to the Ellerslie races, yesierday. About 250 went to Waikato on Eaater Monday. Messrs. T. \V. Freeman, J. D. Gow, J. T. Hough, T. JlcMaster, W. J. Macdermott, T. H. Martyn, J. Peak, J. Roeser, H. Thompson, J. Tonkin, and J. M. White, have been nominated for tho election to the office of members of the Newton School Committee.

The Invercargill Chamber of Commerce have passed a resolution that in its opinion the action of the Government in increasing the charges for the telephone service is a retrograde step, and not called for by the requirements of public accommodation. Over 30 cases of typhoid fover have been reported by the medical officers in Braidwood (N.S.W.) and the immediate neighbourhood, causing a great scare among the townspeople. The epidemic ia attributed to the drought and the general absence of sanitary precautions. The following is the state of Her Majesty's prison, Auckland, for the week ending April 17 :—On remand, 8 males, 1 female ; awaiting trial, 11 males 1 female ; boy, 1; penal servitude, 2 males: hard labour, 111 males, II females; imprisonment, 2 male*; default of bail, 3 males; received during the week, 21 males, 6 females; diecharged, 14 males, 3 females. Total in prison, 138 males, 13 females.