NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10664, 31 January 1898, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Pakeha arrived from London. , Waihora arrived from South. # Public schools re-open to-day. • ••• r/ Mararoa from Sydney to-night. Annual Regatta a great success. ■ The Meteor scored another win against lha Kotiri on Saturday. The Pakeba brought a large quantity of explosives from London. Collision in the scow race on Saturday between the Shamrock and the Waipu, the latter being badly damaged. For selling sixpennyworth of opium to a black gin, a Chinese storekeeper was fined £50 at Winton (Queensland). . The wool clip throughout the Masterton district is good.' Some of the clips average between 111b and 121b per shepp. The Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants will probably take steps to assist the sufferers by the recent bush fires. The Wairoa County Council (Hawke's Bay) intends to borrow £4000 for the making of roads and bridges in the district. Considerable sickness among children prevails at Croydon, Queensland. The local hospital at Bowon is reported as being full, The headmaster of thoßeenleigh (Queensland) State school has been found drowned. It is believed that deceased was bathing in the river. The Waneanui Borough Council is taking . the opinion of a Wellington engineer as to some necessary improvements in its water, supply system. Three men just returned from Samarai (New Guinea) report having done well on the goldfields. One man got 90 ounces of gold in three months. The Postmaster-General of New South Wales contemplates an issue of stamped envelopes with views of beauty Bpots in the colony and useful information printed on them. Somo days ago Mr. A. Gethin had the misfortune to gcb a valuable horse—which was running near the racecourse— through the animal jumping over a picket fonce, at Wairoa, Hawke's Bay. Several children belonging to a dairyman in the Riccarcon district havo been attacked with diphtheria, one case ending fatally, The Riccarton Road Board, as a board of health for the district, has prohibited tho sale of milk from this dairy. The Taranaki Herald learns from the chairman of directors of the Taranaki Freezing Company (Limited) that the directors have decided to put in ab their works at Moturoa a new Linde machine double the capacity of the one now in use, to enable them to cope with the large increase of business. A private letter from Mount Cook states that heavy floods havo been experienced in the mountains. The Hooker rose higher than in has done for many years, and the wire cage, which tourists use in order to cross to the Tasman glazier and the Ball hut, was washed away, fording on horseback being, in consequence, necessitated for tho present. Heavy snow fell in the Mackenzie Country, and the hills all roundßurke'sPass are thickly covered.