NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10478, 25 June 1897, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

HIWEA arrived from South. Anglian left Sydney for Auckland, Man found drowned, in the harbour. Fatal lift accident in Customi-street. A potato weighing 61b 13oz has been un« tarthed at Temuka. The plant known m " taniy" ii alleged to be a specific for bot fly, Butter is said to command the high price of 2a per pound in RetftM. . - A ro.ro, avis in the shape of a white blackbird was captured at Dunediu the other

d»y. ■ Sixty-one cases of diphtheria occurred at Hawthorn, Melbourne, laefc'week, 12 being fatal. Sheep-worrying, remarks the Tapanui Courier, continues iu the neighbourhood of Tapanui and Kelio. Three prisoner! were brought to town yesterday from Rotorua, and taken to Mount Eden gaol..

Some miscreant entered the Church of England at Hastings last Saturday, and badly damaged the organ. The Government is being urged on as to the advisability of reserving a large proportion of the Moutoa Estate forflaxmilling

purpose!; Two brothers named Brann, aged 25 and 18, while working in a shaft near Kerrong Vale (Victoria) were crushed by a fall of earth and killed. Three Maoris, arrested in Lower Waikato, have been remanded to Fakekohe on a charge of eheepstealing. The remand is to the 29th instant. Recently Archibald Benwell was thrown from his horse while racing at Mary, borough (Queensland), and subsequently died in the hospital. A boy named Poulton, seven and a-half years old, died at Penrith, New South Wales, last week, from inflammation of the bowels, caused through eating mushrooms. Tlie Dan'edin booksellers have received a notice similar to thab served upon those in the same trade in Wellington, inhibiting the sale of Home Nisbefc's novel, "The

Swampers." The Hawera Post understands that several farmers from the Hawke's Bay district!, wbo suffered from, the late floods, are on a «(it there, with'the view of acquiring land wLare flooding one is impossible. It was stated on oath by a batcher in a recent case at Ashburton that there were any quantity of smart yonng fellows wbo would accept £1 a week as slaughterers and salesmen and find themselves. A Melbourne carrier named Robert Abraims has been sent to gaol for three months for assaulting bis five-year-old daughter. The child created a sensation in Court by the injuries inflicted upon her, No less than eighty-two applications have been received by tbe committee of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association for the position of secretary. The applications have come from every part of the colony. A terrible accident occurred at Mackay, Queensland, the other day. Mr. F. Ball and hie wife were driving in a boggy near a railway crossing, when the horse rushed across the line. The engine of an approaching train struck the baggy, killing the occopante. Several head of cattle caused a great deal of alarm in Feilding last week, by charging people, and running into business premises. A lady on a bicycle was charged by one of the bullocks, sad she promptly dismounted and, leaving her " bike" in the road, she made for a place of safety. In the ceiißUß papers three women describe themselves as carrying on the business of phrenologists, five others are described as "showmen lecturers," one is a " theatre manager," two are " professional athletes," and three have adopted the profession of" barbers.",