NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10507, 29 July 1897, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tasmania gone South. Ovalau left (or the Island*. Waihora left Sydney for Auckland. A Suez mail arrira from Sydney on Monday next. About 100 tons of kauri gam arrived in town daring the past) week. The stray cattle nuisance ii, now becoming unbearable in Weetport, 10 the Westport Times says. The Victorian Railway Department hare made arrangements regarding' work* which will provide employment for about 1000 ■en. ' Swarms of com bags bar* made their appearunce in the Mndgee district, New South Wales, and cover the trees and fences. A movement is on foot in Stratford to form a volunteer corpa. A good deal of interest it being manifested by the residents in the project Resident." near the Henni River were astonished the other morning to find that during the night the course of the river at the mouth had changed. Some Wellington drapers find that the Shops arid Factories Act provides that their shops should be locked when they are to be kept open and vice veru. The Manawatu A. and P. Association ii to give nearly £1000 in prizes at its forthcoming winter show, being an increase of ■early £'200 over last year. The suggestion of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society for a conference of the kindred societies at Wellington has been accepted throughout the colony. The body of a married woman named Kelly, wife of a fireman on a small Townsville steamer, was found with the throat cut. It is apparently a case of suicide. Blenheim rabbits in very large numbers and of good quality were on sale in Wellington last Saturday night at sixpence each, and seemingly were in good demand. A lad named Spencer met with a painful accident at Danevirke on Tuesday evening. His wrist was badly cat, and an artery severed, the result of his falling on an axe.

Steps have been taken by the Victorian Customs Department for the establishment of a bureau for giving information in regard to products and manufacture* of the colony. The school children's flte at the Sydney Cricket Ground in connection with the record reign celebrations was attended by 60,000 children, 10,000 being unable to gain admittance. A horse attached to a sulky bolted in Hunter-street, Newcastle, the otHer night, and a young woman named Alice Claitnn, was knocked down and killed. Several others were run over and injured. A special meeting of the Harbour Board will be held on Tuesday, August 3, to consider, and if approved, adopt by-laws (re tariff, etc.) parsed by the Board on tho 20th instant, and to fix date when such by-laws shall come into operation. The Colonial Treasurer of South Australia, in reply to a deputation consisting of the Mayor, city councillors, and leading shopkeepers of Adelaide, promised to look into the matter of introducing a Bill giving the Council power to prohibit hawking in the streets. The body of Mr. Hume, a mining manager, of Melbourne, who has been missing since March last, was found in the bush near Dromana, Victoria, last week. The body was in an advanced stags of decomposition. The deceased had apparently committed suicide.

Petone was aroused shortly after two o'clock the other morning by the blowing of the Gear Company's whistle. Heavy rain had found its way into a railway truck which was in the company's yard, loaded with lime. The company's fire brigade mustered smartly, and soon ended ail danger. There were in the lock up last evening John alias Kenneth Monaghan on a charge of theft of an overcoat, value £3 10s, the property of Leonard Geo. Baker; Arthur Masters, theft of a breech-loading gun, value £40, the property of Louis Reginald Nortbey; and Thomas McHugh, theft of one and a-half gallons of bulk whisky, value £115s, the property of Louis Reginald Nortbey. Accused was subsequently bailed oat, the bail being fixed at £50.