NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10508, 30 July 1897, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Flora due from Fiji. . ' H M.S. Goldfinch left for Rarotonga. The new Quay-street jetty is lobe opined on August 17. • , Toe Miration Army has ceased operation! at FoxtoD. * . The birds at the Qaeen'e Gardettf, Kelson, cm! the corporation £20 • year. ; The premier " toper" of the colony is claimed for Wangaoui, fail record being 190 convictions. - • . < Another poll it shortly to be taken In Mtiterton on the question of raising £15,000 for waterworks. The council of the Northern Bowling Association has decided that the next tournament will be held at Napier. A lad named John Paacoe, aged eight years, fell over a cliff at Mitchelltown on Saturday and broke his collarbone. A married woman named Annie Neilson, aged 39, hune herself in her bedroom in Albert Park (Vic.) the other morning. In the Government Gazette of the 22nd July appear revised regulations with respect to the entry of naval cadets into the British navy. At Stockton Charles Hansen, a miner, was killed by a fall of coal, while his mate, Daniel Evans, received an ugly scalp wound. Arrangements are to be made at once for the erection of the Otaki Cottage Hospital. About £300 have so far been subscribed for the hospital. Section No. 45a of the parish of Titirangi, containing by admeasurement 3 roods 39 perches, has been reserved as a site for a public pound. The Riddiford family is about to erect a memorial window in St James' Church, Lower Hutfc, and is importing the window from England. The Government has ordered 150,000 trout ova from the Masterton fish hatcheries for distribution in the Waikare-! Moana, in the Urewera Country. At the Sydney sheep show the president observed that the New Zealand farmers had not paronieed the affair this year, "probably owing to the great drought." After what occurred at the Brunswick Orange procession, the Victorian Govern* ment are considering whether demonstrations of such a character should be allowed. A man named Thomas Phillips was committed for trial in Melbourne on a charge of robbing a German farmer named Charles SchuW of £512 by means of the confidence trick. A scare was caused at the Mount View Asylum last week by the escape of a refractory lunatic. The man was, bowever, recaptured next day ea the hills beyond Kilbirnie. During the 36 years Court Sir George Grey, A.0.F., has been in existence in Wellington, £13,16317e 5d has been paid to ■embers and their widows on account of sickness and death. A sacrilegious entry was effected on Sunday night week at the Roman Catholic Church, O'Brien-street, North Bondi, N.B.VV. Several statues were ruthlessly treated, but nothing was stolen. The members of the Kupertewood (Victoria) Battery of Horse Artillery, which disbanded recently, intend erecting a tablet in Sunbury Church in memory of the late Sir W. J. Clarke, the founder and mainminer of the corps. Whilst two young fellows named Budd and Kilminster were rabbit-shooting in the vicinity of Masterten the other morning Budd received a charge of shot in various parte of the body, but his injuries are not supposed to be dangerous. An engineer named D. Davy, aged 70 yean, took a fit at Adelaide while cleaning an engine, and set fire to bis whiskers with a lighted candle which he held in his hand. He was found with one side of bis face and neck burnt in a horrible manner, and died in a few minutes. A wharf labourer employed in unloading the Gothic,.at Wellington, got one of his legs jambed by a case on Monday. It was thought his leg was broken, and he wae taken to the hospital, but on examination, it was found that, though the limb had been severely crushed, the bone wae not injured, ,