NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11365, 7 May 1900, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

'Frisco mail due to-morrow . Mararoa for Sydney this ' v . V: s if WailioraandTomoanardeaJt antine. . 5&S' i' H.M.S. Lizard arrived f rora Sft , W placed in quarantine. « v % j., m Tho police arrested two ,i„ ',''' ' I H.M., Pylades 1 returned to their vessel. .•'',?" ttle J K "I. The horse Nereid falling fa ti,„ u 'I dicapatAvondaleonsSfeßi| Satman was thrown and injured <■-H<j I During the past month 551 ■„:„;,- 1 slaughtered at ' the Paeroa v N,^l abattoirs, the total fees S?«H 1 18s Bd. ™ llß ßtosg "Fruit kept in a bedroom tTP t >*; I night is unfit to cat,"-Mr wijft « i I condemning certain Chinese fJ, •"' S A I at Wellington. nntll >C^l Tho City District Football (<\,v - 1 fifteen defeated the Aratapu C SK I by 21 points to three, at &tte?n P S i" on Saturday afternoon. •-'..''mi § "I will sell mr billet as connnili - \ ii wanlfor2s6d,"wastl,ewe3 f l ot^? of a city father soon after te S&W II at the Wellington Council tabffi§ 1 night. ■ -. le % II Tho Bluff Harbour Board haw A. •> P call their new tug Theresa Ward %ss* i wife of tho Hon. J. G. Ward, m$H I Railways, and member of the '{tv** M Board. . ; " at *j II

The Queensland Government intend cure a number of travelling cranes r placed on the railway wharves, KB? Brisbane, so that vessels may be loaded • coal without Wing shifted from one &vl another. Mi&l*

Recently Alexander Joint Black |§l ter, formerly residing at Roclihi Si (Queensland), jumped overboard Unlm Manawatu when the vessel was aboutmiles from Rockhampton. His bock- li • * been found. J M^ One of the latest curios received from ,t front is "a fragment of the biscuit used the New Zealand Contingent dutinir M march to the relief of Kimberlev." ijjj memento is in the possession of a North resident. , ,:iM4 The Lands Department has been adri s that all the land in the Piinaroa: iW and Rautawiri estates, in Canterbury , cently thrown open for closer settlement' V with the exception of one section at Ponjr! been allotted. •:.™

Says a Westport paper:—lt is : - to" 1 hoped that the Government will step a we that the fire in the Cardiff coal info'; extinguished. An expenditure of somotfe like £2000 is required for tho-work. "but til outlay would be thoroughly justified. 'mi The rabbit-trappers have been very busy,) late (says the Dunstan Times), "and V traffic has increased to a very gnat ffe by the export of bunny. One morning h| week five waggonettes full of rabbits nas« through Blacks en route for Ranfurly. It is somewhat extraordinary (says ft Express) that since Mr. Hogg, M.H.R, £ gratulated the Eketahuna Progress Asaxj. tion upon there being mo use for the .tool cemetery, four sudden deaths should W. occurred in the district within four days. The rainfall at Gisborne for the.nfoaj of April was 6.24 in on 14 days, the heaTitj fall on one day king 4.72 in on the 104 List year B.oßin. fell on 17 days,~inc!iiaiij 3.64 in, tho heaviest for ono day, the 2M The average for 22 years is 4.30 in on 15 days. \ ';;■

A party of grass- feeders working at Pi Valley, Eketahuna, the other day discovert? a complete skeleton of a human being (sjji tho Express). The head was some distaw from the other bones. The remains appeal to be those of a European, and have pij. bably been bleaching for several years.. A deputation of winegrowers waited « the South Australian Minister for Agriculture, and asked the Government to estallii cellars at Port Adelaide, where wines fe export could be blended under the superintendance of an expert in order to ensure 1 uniform quality. The Minister promised carefully to consider the scheme. .