NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10424, 23 April 1897, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Akglian gone to Sydney. St. George's Day, Banks closed. Mariposa from San Francisco to-day. Jndramayo for the South this morning. _ Butler is expected te arrive by the Man. posa from San Francisco. A Greymouth Chinaman has been MM £25 and £6 costs for carrying on a Chinese lottery* public will not be allowed to The general public will not be allowed to board the mail steamer Mariposa on her Nearly every mine on Charter!i Towen will send balf-a-ton of stone to the Brisbane Exhibition. . . . A Sydney omnibus proprietor u having a ■bus specially built to accomodate lady passengers outside. ... t The present gathering of natures at Papawai in probably the largest ererheld in the Wellington province. One thousand and eighty members of the civil service in Tasmania have joined the proposed Civil Service Association * Cecil Bayne, a prisoner at Tamworth Gaol, was recently flogged. He fainted after 20 strokes had been administered. Rain has fallen on April 16th in 12 years out of the last 26, on the 17th in 13 years, and on the 18th in 12 years out of the 26. Serious apprehensions are entertained at Rockhampton regarding the coming winter, owing to the great deficiency in the ramThe Greenwoods' last performance at the City Hall last evening attracted a good audience, and the programme met with each success. The other night, Mr. Conwell, of the firm Df Tozer. and Uonwell, solicitors, was killed at Gympie, Queensland, by being thrown from his horse. Three prospectors, who have been searching for copper in the range at Maharahara obtained excellent specimen!, which they have taken to Wellington. Weasela are becoming so plentiful in Borne parts of Otago that seven were caught by a rabbiter one evening on the upper banks of the Clutha river. The miners on the Victoria Range are leaving there in dread of a fall of snow. The hills around Reefton have assumed their winter mantle of white. The cutter Mystery has arrived at Cooktown, from the Stewart River, bringing three French escapees, who were picked up in a half-starved condition on the coast. For the three months ended the 31it March last, the arrivals at Sydney, including intercolonial vessels, numbered 429, representing an aggregate of 524,816 tons. There was in the lockup last evening one prisoner on a charge of drunkenness; Robert Foster on a charge of begging, and Philip McOingan tor drunkenness and obscene language. Recently William Miller was struck by a glass thrown by another man, and lies in a critical condition in the Orange Hospital, New South Wales. His right eye has been removed. The yield of the Masterton vineyards this year amounts to 2000 gallons of wine, and some three tons of grapes which are coming from Brancepatb, nave to be added to the total. A piece of wood which a Motueka (Nelson) lad was chopping flew up and hit him in the eye, entirely destroying; the sight. The cue is rendered more pitiful from the fact that the parents are indigent and in receipt of charitable aid. When a bill for £66, part expenses in connection with the licensing committee election, was presented to the Oamaru Borough Council, it was suggested, after a painful pause, that the account should be tent to the solitary defeated candidate. The consumption per head of sugar in New Zealand now amounts to nearly 901b per head for every man, woman, and child of the population of the colony, which, at 3d per fb, taking the population at 640,000 including the Maoris, amounts to £729,999 per annum. A Mr. E. R. White, writing to the Muewellbrook (New South Wales) Chronicle, says: "I milk 50 cows, keep pigs, and estimate my nett income, even at the present low price of butter, at £300 or £350 per annum. I would advis* farmers to buy lothing but the best cows."

The Wellington Post has the following: —The potato crop hat been a very poor one in the Wellington and Marlborough districts. Both in quality and quantity there is a deficiency, and we shall have to depend upon the South Island for supplies. Prices •re very bad just now, with a tendency to movt upwardn.