NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10626, 15 December 1897, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Conciliation Board closed. :, gudden death at Hoteo. '■ Boy drowned at Port Albert. • Anglian overdue from Sydney. Te Anau from the South to-morrow. Young woman drowned at Wellington. ■ Suicides at Wellington and Greymouth, 'A Titnaru lady is said to have had a melodrama accepted by Bland Holt. Auckland passengers and periodicals, ex Gothic from London, arrive by Te Anau tomorrow. ~ ■ The work of repairing the eastern tea of Queen-street Wharf has been compile motor cars which have been ordered by a Wellington syndicate from Paris will arrive about) the middle' of next month. , .... j u • The depredation of minah birds are being felt severely by orchardists in the Hastings district. A man named McNamara died at Delsgate, New South Wales, recently, at the age of 102 years. t At Beech Forest (Victoria) a selector named Ernest Mincbinton was killed by » tree falling upon him. ■ • Jesse Cousins, a miner, was crushed to death recently in a mine at Long faulty (Victoria) by a fall of 6tone. . . •Although in its iufaucy, Otago on a paid-up capital of £27, d" nas already yielded a total of £141,185. _ It is stated that hawks are picking out the eye 3 of a large number of. the he»wwnolled sheep in the Rangitikei district this A party of young Palmerstomians, ® onß well-known residents, incend leavi g shortly for the Klondyke goldfields to try Cooper was. recently COnvicted at the Hawera Police Court for disturbing an audience by whistling, and had to pay the cost of the proceedings. . The old Duke of Edinburgh Hotel in Wellington is about to be pulled down to make room for a large brick building. The old settlers will remember the house at the torner of Willis and Manners streets.. A young man named Herb. Davis was bitten on the leg by a snake same distance from Tumberumba, New bouth Wales. tie immediately cut out a large piece with a razor, and nearly died from exhaustion. The Norwegian four • masted barque Prince Robert), which sailed from Newcastle recently, for San Francisco., took a shipment of 26 tons coke. This 18 the first occasion on which coke has been shipped from Newcastle to an American port. An employee at Cohoe and Waester 8 Pioneer Foundry, Junee, New South Wales, while oiling the driving gear was caught in the couplings, and every stitch oi clothes torn from his body. The man was then thrown S feet or 10 feet to the ground, escaping without so much as a scratch. At a recent meeting of the Dunedin and Suburban Dairymen's Association it was decided, after considerable discussion, to open a defaulters' list. It was contended that the step was necessary because many persons used the money which should go to those who supplied them with necessaries in keeping holidays. The deer placed on the hills by the Acclimatisation Society in Wairarapa South are (says the Standard) already showing a decided liking for the crops, and if something is not done to abate 'he nuisance, landowners aver that they will be compelled to shoot the trespassers. It has been suggested to us that the Society should lend one of its rangers to look after the imported stock during the season, ana keep them out of mischief.