NEWS IN BEIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10900, 3 November 1898, Page 6

NEWS IN BEIEF.

QtrzEXSLAXD is the only colony exhibiting at the dairy show in London. At Melbourne recently a fruit vendor was Sned £5 for selling rotten fruit. A quantity of cargo for Borchgrevinck's expedition has been landed at Hobart. In connection with the Hospital Sunday collection in -Melbourne £3830 was realised. The only prisoner in the lock-up last evening was a man named Evans, on a charge of theft. A fanner named James Lang, of Mangere, yesterday filed a petition to be adjudged a baikrupt. A Fijian Princess, aged 10, has arrived in Sydney for education. Inter aha she will study medicine. A clause in the South Australian Children's Protection Bill prohibits a child from smoking in a public-place. A nngget, weighing lOSoz, is said to have teen unearthed at Kuraalpi (West Australia) the other day. by a man named Sammonds. At the District Court, Melbourne, the other <hy. a cyclist was fined 20s, with 21s cost*-, for riding a bicycle with his lands in his pockets. A few days ago a draught foal was born at f Whittingbam, near Sinyleton (New South Wales), without front legs or a tail. It) did not live manv hours. A young lady of 22, named Miss Edith Hcrsh'eM. died under chloroform in a dental surgery at liendigo (Victoria), after having had some teeth extracted.

Work at the Xew Perseverance gold mine (Victoria) has been suspended, [raiding an inquiry into the position of the company and the alleged forgery of scrip. A Xew .South Wales farmer (Mr. Farrar, of Qiieaiibeyan) lias for some time followed up important experiments in connection, with the hybridisation of wheat. It is in contemplation to purchase two dredges foi Queensland capable of 5000 tons and 3COO tons per hour respectively, one for Brisbane and the other for the North. Litigation involving £15.000 worth of shares in the North Mount Lyell Company, has been commenced against the executor of the late James Crotty, of Melbourne. ' A Chinaman, who was locked up on a charge of bcini,' of unsound mind, kinged himself the other day wi.t.li his pigtail, in his cell at Charters Towers (Queensland). the famous .McShany case, against the New South Wales Railway Department, plaintiff got damages amounting to £13,408 but it cost him £60,000 to prove his .•Mβ. At Perth (West Australia) John Buck, alias Williams, has been convicted of robbing a miner of £400, by means of the confidence trick, and lias been remanded for ' sentence. ■

Mr. Pennycuick, an English expert, has reported upon the best methods of Hood prevention in tta Brisbane River, and the report is being forwarded to the Government hy the Agent-Cieneral. At the half-yearly meeting of the Riverina Frozen Meat Company, in Melbourne, the chairman ssiid, that owing to the bad season in New South Wales, the prospects of the company were not at all bright. ! A seat on the Sydney Stock Exchange is now worth at least £800, and the price is likely to advance. The last two vacancies were each filled at that figure, as compared i with £500 two or three years ago. : The South Australian treasurer recently! received a, £10-note, forwarded as "con-science-money." The handwriting of the I sender resembled that of the person who made a similar remittance to the Treasury about six weeks ago. The adjourned 'meeting of Mr. George Massey-Watson's creditors, which should' have been held yesterday, was further adjourned owing to the illness of one of the counsel engaged. A meeting will probably bo held on Monday next. On a recent Sunday, when a number of Chinese were engaged in ceremonies in connection with the anniversary of the death of one of their countrymen in the cemetery, ut Campbell's Hill, West Maitland (New South Wales), they were set upon by a number of larrikins. An old Chinaman was seriously injured. Two arrests have been made.

The New South Wales Minister for Mines is meeting with difficulties in, connection with the granting of gold leases in river beds on account of owners of land being unwilling to yield up their rights to the river. He contemplates bringing forward legislation to enable the leases to be granted without further trouble.

The en.se of Mary Ann Bryant, charged with failing to provide for her female child, which was before the Police Court on Tuesday, and the case of Patrick Kean, who was sent to gaol for a month for neglecting his illegitimate child, were both brought at the instance of the Society for the Protection of \\ omen and Children.