NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11232, 29 November 1899, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

City loan proposals carried. The New South Wales patriotic fund amounts to £ a O4D Is sd. Rum- sensational catches of cod. mullet, ami flounders Lave been made at Hokitika. I The Christoliurch Gas Company has im- j ported a number of Bellamy's patent street lanterns, of which over 8000 are in use in Limerick. . , I •\ -..m medal lias been Riven by -Mr. | John Gallagher, of the Criterion Hotel, j Cambridge, to be competed for at the Cam- j bridge sports. ; •\ member of the Marlborough Education ; Bond—Mr. T. Carter-lias given three acres j of land, equal to £500, for the proposed high school in tint district It las ban proposed to adopt the HareSpence system of voting at the Federal election in South Australia, but the rentier has not accented the suggestion. The Crf-v Star says thai, .1 most remarkable fi>h was found by .Mr. A. Brown on the South Beach .'I few days ago. The creature lias a tail like a. kangaroo, and two appendages. which vidently serve as legs. Aecoidin.' to a report presented at a meeting of the Victorian Viticultural Board, the iihylloxera-u-sisUnt vine stocks, obtained frii'm California by the Department of Agri- | culture, are thriving well, and making vigor- | ous growth. At the half-viarly meeting of the Trades mil l.ainui Cu'iin'.-il of Otago the half-yearly bji.in-v-sheet showed that both numerically 1 jind rid mcially the Ccrncil is in the best roMiif" ii lii' been iii since its organisation 10 vt';ir-> ;i. f >. During " a thunderstorm recently (says the Gore Stand.-id» a little girl, the daughter of Mi. J. Shivas. was struck 011 j 11i,."1,!'t arm by lightning. She was 011-1 glided drawing'water irniu a lank at. the. liim. and 1..1S partially .stunned by the shock. No serious consequences are antici--1;.. i-'l. The old alv pensions scheme lias been the , ileal, < <■[' ». villi i'.'CO a year for tin- South Cantel'buiv iriuble Aid Board. 26 cases. Living Ic.'ii i 'km oil the hands of the BoanJ riming till liii'ii.i VI ar that ended not lorij ■ jgn. " During ill.' yi-ar the ordinary expendi- | tllie of the Iviard was about £100 a month, j lie iireviotii year it was £500 a month. In ill.' Sii|Vein,- Court at Wellington the Chief twice said lie considered that the j,>v of t'Jiin/'on jurors in civil cases was rid'iculou-ly small. Addressing the jury em- [ panelM. Sir Robert Stout expressed the I tone i!i,at they and others would be able to have the rale of remuneration increased. I The yal'mnt. V. : lienor added, with a smile. 1 lias ,in <ipj><,rwnv time for agitation. I The .Yew Zealand Shipping Company (ac-1 cording to the Sew Zealand T'imesl has just, \ bun -idvi.v.-d that i! -' strainers arc to be fitted J up with " stcr-gi " accommodation, which I "will be rmr •> superior to anything yet \ sctn.'' The ".aipany has decided to make I all pt.ivi.-i< 111 :cr bathhouse, smokingroom, . and mi on. And " all the arrangements," I says the report, will be of "an up-to-date I character." ( The \.ytt- :ton Times reports that while \ dragging along ; zip hanks of Victoria Lake i to ch '.r away the weeds was being carried on. the giapivT nrought a bicycle to the Burfaie. '1 he mach'iie had. ajijiarently. remained in the bid of the lake fur some months, as it was deeply embedded in the mud. end the tyies were partly destroyed. The handles are missing, but otherwise the machine is intact, and in a. fair condition. lie piiic- suppose ill,-it it was stolen, and was thrown into the lake when the thief haxl 110 further use for it.