NSWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10427, 27 April 1897, Page 6

NSWS IN BRIEF.

Waihoba from South. Pukaki gone Sooth. Manapouri from Sydney. Poisoning sensation at Hawera, Waibora for Sydney this evening. Shooting fatality in Symond-streefc, School committee elections last night. Sneak thieving h again reported in TauKetch Ituon Belle wrecked near WhaDEueii A poll is to be taken in Stratford on proposals to lighb the township by electricity sr gas. At Perth the other night a man named Gerald Fitzgibbons was run over by a train and killed. Thi prevalence of dysentery and fever in New Guinea is causing muck anxiety ■monftst the miners. Another effort is being made at Mildora, Victoria, to establish a municipal hotel on the Gothenburg system. The Motiti native" state thai the present season's crop of maize is the heaviest that Motiti has yet produced. A young Englishman named F. fi. Blaseby, was found drowned in the Cataract Gorge, near Launceston. A railway ganger named Lyons has been killed near Orange by a collision between an engine and a railway tricycle. During the voyage of the barque Shakespeare, from London to Hobart, one of the crew, H. Hazeldean, was lost overboard. Owners of dogs are notified that owing to dogs destroying newly-planted bulbs and tubers in the Albert Park, poison will be laid in future. The Dolgolly bore at Moree. New South Wales has reached a depth of 4020 feet, and is the deepest bore in the world constructed on the drill pole system. A well-dressed young woman the other day was drowned' in the Yam. She was followed by a terrier, who stood by the body until it was recovered. The Weeleyan congregation at Lawrence, of which the Rev. Mr. Jory is pastor, has just wiped off a debt nnder which it has been labouring for twenty-rive years. An ordinary meeting of the Harbour Board will be held to-day to open and consider tenders for enclosing ipace between eheds C. and D., Queen-street Wharf. A lad named White, aged 14, baa keen accidentally shot near Aletonville, New South Wales, by the accidental explosion of a gun which a friend was carrying. The cost of the flood to the Rangitikei, Kiwitea, and Manawatu County Councils, Manchester Road Board, and the Feilding Borough in bridges alone will be over £20,000. Thousands of dead sheep, together with great numbers of pigs and cattle, are strewn on the beach at the Mahia, and the people of that locality have been very busy the last few days saving the skins. A sample of the native Mercury, found in excavating from the foundations of the Waihi Gold Mining Company's now offices in Bhortland-*treet, has been added to the Auckland Museum collection. On the Dunedin City and Suburban Tramway Company's lines 13,000 were carried on Good Friday, 13,500 on Saturday, 6000 on Sunday, aud 13,000 on Monday, or a total of 50,000 for the holi-

days. Nominations for three members of th» Mangere Road Board dosed yesterday, when the following were received:- Messrs. S, Gooseman, J. Scott, J. Montgotnrie, jun., A. Robinson, J. M. Wallace, and D. Hutie.

Mr. Atcherly, of the Survey Department, Wellington, is preparing an illuminated iddress, which the New Zealand Veterans' Association intends presenting to the Queen Dn the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

Old residents at Kiama, New South Wales, state that the present drought is the worst experienced since the summer of (he year 1867-68. Feed in every direction hae dried up, and winter crops are in a bad way for want of rain.

The proprietors of Bernard's Circus, who generously gave a performance latt night in aid of the Hawke'e Bay Relief Fund put on a first-class programme for the occasion, There was a good attendance. Mr. Chas. Nayler's items were much appreciated, and the other artists contributed clever acts.

The manufacture of acetylene gas has been commenced by Mr. Tyree, of Nelson, who claims that he can supply generator* and the necessary Appliances for giving nine light* for something under £4, tbe co/it per light of a given power being about 3s 6d apainst 10s for coal gas, There were in the lockup last evening three persons on charges of drunkenness; John Lucas, for larceny of £1, the property of James Kelly; Michael Hickey, larceny of an Anglo-German concertina, valued at £410s, the property of Win. Chapman; and Arthur Halsey, for theft of £7 16s, tbe property of Mrs. Alice Melton. Regarding the trap accident in Ponsonby Road referred to in yesterday's Herald, Mr. O. P. Parker writes contradicting the statement that the accident was caused byone of his 'buKs. He states that during his four years' experience in 'bus driving he baa never caused an accident. Hβ sold bis 'buses last month.

The crew of the barque Marjory Glen, of Glasgow, were in sore distress owing to wanb of water when the steamer Ciltua opportunely came to their aid, and furnished them with about 200 galloni. The barque was fallen in with on March 27, and reported that she was then 151 days out from New York, bound for Chillichon.