NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11148, 22 August 1899, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Westralia left for Sydney. Upolu gono to the Islands, Papanui arrived from London. Elinfamite arrived from Sydney. A dredging boom in Marlborough is predicted. . Tvphoid fever has broken out at the Wairan Maori pa. His Honor Mr. Justice Conolly holds a Chamber sitting this morning. There are not many applicants foi work applying at the Labour Bureau at present. The United Otago District of Foresters has a membership of 2693, and the funds amount to £38,335 7s 3d. Bullion valued at £11,300 was sent away by the Westralia foi Sydney yesterday for transhipment to London. Fourteen tree ferns and four cabbage trees have been planted on Campbell s point reserve, Parnell, by Mr. D. A, Hay. , It is stated that ovei 22,394 tons of timber, and 192 tons of firewood, have been sent away from Eketahuna during the past 12 months. It is estimated that for the last two and a-balf vears new buildings have been going up in Wanganui at the rate of £1000 per V 'Tt is reported on good authority thaUarge blue"um trees, of 30 years' growth, have been killed in South Canterbury by the recent heavy frosts. A Newmarket resident named John Edwards lias been admitted to the Hospital for treatment, having accidentally gashed his hand with a pane of glass. Twenty-seven cases have been set down for trial' at the Supreme Court criminal sittings, which open on Monday next. Included in the list are two charges of murder. The Manawatu County Council has a tramwav which it wants the Government to extend, enabling it to supply metal in larger quantities, and at a cheaper rate, to the surrounding districts. Electors in the North Ward, and of the city generally, are reminded of the address on municipal affairs to be delivered in the Central Mission Hall, Albert-street, to-night by Mr. H. M. Smceton. Among the prisoners who come up for trial at the criminal sittings of the Supreme Court is William Carroll, who was committed for trial upon a charge of murdering his wife at Cambridge. Two of the passengers by the Manawatu train when a shunting accident occurred at Otaki about a month ago are still suffering from the effects of the severe shaking which they received on that occasion. The Canterbury Farmers' Co-operative Association, of Timaru, on the year's transactions, lias a profit for distribution of £12,487. The directors will propose to pay a bonus of 6 per cent, on shareholders' purchases, and to refund 20 per cent, on stock and grain commissions. Comment, says the Press, is being made on the number'of properties in and about Christchurch which are just now on the market for sale. A well-known business man of long experience says he has never known bo many residences and sections for sale in the history of the district. The bicycle has proved of great service to shearers iii Australia this year in getting to the sheds out back, where there has been neither feed nor water for horses. Tlio Bourke correspondent of the Sydney Mail states that of 32 shearers employed at a shed in that district 29 reached the run on bicycles. There were three persons in the lockup on charges of drunkenness ; Clias. Lake, on a charge of being drunk and disorderly in the Police Court, and with wilfully interrupting the proceedings of the S.M. Court ; Patrick V. Davis and Geo. Jackson, on a charge of fighting in a public place, and Carrie Best, on a charge ol being drunk and disorderly. A sequel to the case in which the General Exploration Company recently obtained judgment against Mr. Edward Purser, of Blenheim, for £36,000. the full amount of a claim in connection with the floating of some mining ventures on the West Coast, is that the defendant in the suit has been adjudicated a bankrupt on the petition of the plaintiff company. Deer are very plentiful near Wliakamarumani. A recent visitor from there informs the Napier Herald that he saw two fine herds, one lot of 11, and the other comprising seven noble-looking animals. They scampered, though, as soon as they caught sight of the intruders on the domain. In all likelihood the Hawke's Bay Acclimatisation Society will issue licenses for the shooting of deer next season. The following is the state of Her Majesty's prison, Auckland, for the week, ending August 19. 1899 On remand, 4 males ; awaiting trial, 11 males, 4 females ; sentenced to life, 3 males ; sentenced to hard labour. 135 males, 18 females ; sentenced to imprisonment, 2 males; default of bail, 2 males ; debtors, 1 male ; received during the week, 22 males, 5 females; discharged, 19 males, 4 females : total in prison, 158 males. 22 females. M.H.M., Ngaruawahia, writes Your Mercury Bay correspondent, in reporting the death of John Middlemass, is in error respecting the name of the captain of the Admiral Oorkburn. Her commander, in 1832, was Captain W. G. C. Hingston, who himself died in 1891, in the ninetieth year of his age, after over 50 years' residence in New Zealand. Captain Hingston was wellknown to many old Aucklanders now deceased, notably, Messrs. David Nathan, and Joseph Newman, also to Mr. P. A. Philips.