NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10970, 26 January 1899, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

St. James' Chtjbch bad a successful year in 1898. f , „ l, * The Te Anau is due from the South this morning. To-morrow the steamer Buteshire leaves for London. A man has died from fish poisoning at Christchurch. The Waihora left Sydney for Auckland

yesterday. The Tyser liner Tolosa arrived from New .York last evening. H.M.s. Mildura arrived at Wellington yesterday from Hobart. Six old age pensions were granted by Mr. H. W. Brabant, S.M., yesterday. There was one prisoner in the lock-up last evening on a charge of drunkenness. There are now 400 men on the gold mining rush ncai Gulgong, New South Wales. The Victorian railway receipts show a gratifying increase for the past half-year. Good progress is being made with the construction of the new lighthouse off East

Cape. The style of architecture for the new Bank of New Zealand premises at Wellington is to be modern Italian. The North Shore Native Regatta Committee met last evening to complete the settlement of accounts. A new explosive, kallenite, which is claimed to be the most powerful known, has lately been tested in Sydney. A'band of Greek gipsies wishing to enter New South Wales, was turned back at Albury the other day. The steamer Adelaide struck a rock on January 15 in the Brisbane River, and was considerably damaged. " Haggis and Bagpipes" formed items on the programme in connection with the Burns Club gathering held last night. A scheme to provide Auckland workmen with healthy homes in the suburbs is being set on foot by Mr. Bollard, M.H.R.

Two Chinese were fined £50 each and £100 pull tax at Albury (New South Wales) for attempting to evade the poll tax. The Newton School Committee has nominated Mr. Wm. Leys and Dr. McArthur for election as members of the Auckland Education Board.

Mr. Fowlds said at the Burns Club anniversary gathering last evening that he had driven to the home of the Scottish poet in a motor-car.

A representative of the film 01 Messrs. Weddel, of London, is reported to have purchased the Longburn Freezing Works, near Palmerstflii North.

Mr. Pat lirodie is announced as a candidate for the seat 011 the Coromandel County Council, rendered vacant through the resignation of Mr. Algal I.

The half-yearly election of officers in connection with the Auckland branch of the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society took place last evening. A gas-pipe exploded at St. Peter's Cathedral. Armidale (New South Wales), on a recent Sunday night, while sen-ice was proceeding ; no great damage was done. An orator who said si.metliing derogatory to the Swiss people at a recent debating iociety tournament in Sydney, has been challenged by a Swiss to a duel with swords. The Ngapaerttru Block, comprising 13,750 acres, near Dannevirke, will be opened by the Government next month: also, in April, portions of the Frimley and Willows Estates recently acquired. The Victorian detectives have obtained, it is thought, information as to where the medicines with which the victim of the boot trunk tragedy was treated were obtained.

Three small boys were convicted of stealing bones at Mount Roskill by the justices presiding yeseterdav at the Police Court. They were discharged after being severely cautioned.

The husbands of married women who make application for pensions should be in attendance at the Court when the applications come 011 for hearing, as before a wife can obtain a certificate her husband's income must be inquired into. A curious and a handy thins has happened to a settler in Nuhaka, Hawke's Bay, Three blow-holes broke out on the surface near his house, discharging wind and gas, which burnt freely. He plugged up two of them, and now comfortably boils his billy without trouble or expense.