NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11367, 9 May 1900, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

'Frisco mail arrived.

Moana left for Sydney. Waihora left for the South. Ovalau leaves for the Eastern Pacific this evening. There were in the lockup last night, one man on a charge of drunkenness, and a man named Topin on a charge of theft. The Dunediu inspector's report to the City Council shows that 115 tenements had recently been found in an insanitary state. Recently Jas. D. Leggoe, miner, was killed in the stope of the 700 ft level, in the South mine, Broken Hill, owing to a fall of earth. A Waiotahi settler some time ago bought 50 acres of land for £1 per acre, and sold acres ot it to the County Council at £10 5s per acre. Including (hose despatched with the contingents and the remounts since purchased, tho Poverty Bay district has supplied 100 horses for the war.

The othei clay, Win. Downes, who left Nullagine (West Australia) horse-hunting, was found in an exhausted condition. He subsisted on milk drawn from the mare lis was riding. A record horse auction has just taken place at Albiuy, on the Victoria-New South Wales border. There were 1270 animals sold, the majority for South Africa-, and the proceeds amounted to £13,300.

The commerical men of Auckland are going to ask the Government to let them be represented on the Board of Health for the Port of Auckland, in order to conserve the trade interests of the community. Merchants and shipowners met yesterday, and passed a resolution condemning " in the strongest manner the baseless stigma that had been cast upon the Port of Auckland in declaring it infected by plague." In Wairarapa during last month three bankruptcies were filed and nine from the beginning of the year. During April last year none were filed, and from the beginning of the year till the end of April, the total number was three.

The Queensland Defence authorities contemplate the construction of new fortifications at Lytton, with a view to commanding the entrance to the Brisbane River. Long-range guns will probably be mounted at a cost of £10,000 each.

In the District Court, Sydney, one Mary Rutledge sued Ann Calvin, a housekeeper, to recover £200 damages for a slandei reflecting upon plaintiff's morals, The defendant denied the charge, but His Honor recorded a verdict for plaintiff, with £35 damages. The Taieri Advocate states that the business at the Bumside Iron Rolling Mills is increasing so rapidly that they cannot get enough scrap iron in New Zealand, so have to import large quantities. They have a shipment of over a thousand tons coming to hand from Australia, °

At the annual meeting of the Hawera Acclimatisation Society, it was resolved, " That the secretary write to the Wanganui, Stratford, and Taranaki Associations, asking them to co-operate as to uniform days lot opening and closing the shooting season. The society has decided to procure 100,000 trout fry, and has arranged for the introduction of plover, Egyptian quail, etc. The first croppings of the settlers on the recently cut-up Morton Mains Estate are yielding highly satisfactorily (says the Wvndham Farmer). Mr. Alexander Cloughly. who had a large area of oats, has threshed 55 bushels to the acre all over, the best paddocks yielding as high as 70 bushels, Some excellent crops of wheat have also been harvested in first-class condition, and are expected to yield 50 bushels.