NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11347, 16 April 1900, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Easter Monday , ■ 'Frisco mail leaves M-dsy. - '. Sham-fight at Epson tc-day. ' 1 ; ' Alameda arrived fr»m Sydney! ~\ : Waihora arrived fnm' the South. The mail for letters by the Alameda at ten o'clock this miming. A very large Australian mail arrived by tho Alameda from Sydney, yesterday. . ' . The Easter Handbap will be ran at the A.R.C. meeting at })I|erslie this afternoon. f There is a possibility of the Woodville and Pahiatua Wesleyai Circuits being amilgamated. . \ . "The Masterton Stick Department i s again purchasing remomts for despatch to South Africa. j ; . •' . A bullet of native manufacture, a relic of the " good old days," Ins been found on an island near Opotiki. 1

A man named David Buckley was robbed of over £200 in money 1 and gold specimens while asleep at Kalgooilie. _ Trucking and yarding accommodation for the sheep at Eketaliuna is stated to be inadequate for the business being done. ; i;;, • The party of doer-staicrs who left Mas. terton a few days ago for the mountains in the Gladstone district hive returned with five fine heads. . . : ;

■ A lad named Reginald. Hogsflesh was killed at Peak Hill, Nev South Wales, through a cart loaded with limber upsetting and falling on him. • ;' ■ According to the Express, quite a number of pheasants' nests ha*e lately been found near Eketahuna in whi'h the whole of the eggs have been infertile., V ! Five thousand fat sheep wtro sold on a run at Balranald, New South Wales, last week, at 13s .6d per head. They are to be frozen for South Africa: On the . Queensland-New . Siuth . Wales boundary line, on the edge of tte Australian desert, an artesian well lias struck a yield of water, of 4,000,000 gallons p>r day.' <•' V There seems to be quite a run of accidents at Te Puke lately, another one being reported last Friday, by 'which a lad had the tops of two fingers of the left hand almoit severed, ' A man named Simpkins, working on the railway line under construction to Warb'nrton, Victoria, was terribly mangle! by an explosion of blasting powder, f One of his eyes was destroyed. , .. ■ . - • A trooper of the Fourth New Zealand Contingent, which left Lyttelton on Saturday week, has in his possession a draft for £2000, given to him by his father as capital should he decide to settle in South Africa. For having attempted to induce three sailors to leave the ship Portia, Henry Mulholland was brought up at the Police Court, Newcastle, New South Wales, and fined £15, with the alternative of six months' imprisonment.' v ■ '• ■ \ ' "-'! -' Tho Timaru Poultry Society has decided to hold over the question of affiliation with the new proposed South Island Poultry Association until further information regarding the working of the said association was forthcoming. : j ■ Letters are being .received from members of the Victorian ' Contingent in South Africa, in which they complain bitterly of the inefficiency of .certain Victorian officers. They declare they have no knowledge of handling men. 1 - - i • A meeting of Mr. Hobbs' committee will brt held in the Tailoresses' Hall on Tuesday evening. Lady electors, who desire to secure Mr. Hobbs" return, are requested to meet in St.' George's Hall at three o'clock on' Wednesday afternoon. ] . The infant daughter of Mr. i Thomas Jones, of Yellangip, Victoria," died under peculiar circumstances.. She had been under treatment at Nhill by a Chinese herbalist, and the police seized the medicine prescribed by him for her. A magisterial inquiry was ordered. - ' '

The Opotiki Road Board had rather an unique experience with regard to the last rate levied by it. Mr. Sewell, the clerk of the Board, was successful in collecting every penny of it, thus securing the further advantage of the full amount of Government subsidy. v it, • Recently Inspector / McCaw discovered phylloxera at Mr. J. Robb's vineyard, Rutherglen, Victoria, and also at Mr. ; Hintze's old vineyard. Both the discoveries are in small patches, and are in a • line with the portion of the district where the previous cases were found. , • , - / ■

' The Mayor of Newcastle has forwarded a strong letter against Newcastle being 'excluded from the plague proclamation. :. ; Alderman Miller agrees with Alderman Hjde, who raised the question in the Council, that vessels leaving Sydney ought to be fumigated when coming to Newcastle as well as when going to other ports. j ■ Last Wednesday Mr. C. Keeble, of Te Puke, had the misfortune to have his right shoulder dislocated, and was driven in to Tauranga at once, by Mrs. Kenealy. of the Te Puke Hotel, for surgical treatment., It was originally injured a fortnight ago, but was progressing favourably when Mr. Keeble "met with the second mishap on Wednesday last. . " The Bay, of Plenty Times says:— are glad to' see the police are making an effort to put a stop to drunkenness among the natives, who have of late been apt to-in-dulge too freely when visiting the town, arid to prolong their stay until late in the evening drinking and creating disturbances. Another case is to come before the Court in a few days. .. .