NEWS IN BRIER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11372, 15 May 1900, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIER.

'Frisco mail gone. :'.>.''■ ■:''s■:■ Tomoaiia for the South to-day Mapounka for the South this .ft :>; W&ralia arrived from (X rD °" 1 - be quarantined until to-mois^M . Hie only prisoner in the lockup'iS* B, rag was a man on a charge Of drunk Ten " A party of Opotik! amate,r S^other day landed a shark mfe^ 9in from snout to tail measl > tID lift The overdraft of the Cook Count,- 8N c.l now stands at £7330 16s 9d ~ ■ SB* the bank's limit by £139 16s 9( j " CXCe «<iiiig,; A useful collection of minUli- v^V^ presented to the Auckland uijtte lege fy the Rev. Joseph Camp!* lty °* two gigantic mushrooms werVon'r! W ! the Masterton Borough CouS Cl» ft* the other day. They £'■ £ sSfej5 Sfej W^andoneofUieinuiSfe

The Premier of New South' Wale, i.. i?"' asked to give the Vigilance Com.,, h ! • to compel shipmasters arriving fe castle to take every precaution to pS the landing of rats. ™ • ™ A seaman named David Skein hri™ .'•''" to the Whip Mary Moore, fell down Si' of that vessel at Newcastle, and Si an injury to Ins shoulder, which ncc? tated his removal to the hospital " 1The erection of the new teleeranfc ■ To Puke is being rapidly pushed on by McKenzie and his staff of workmen ami, ■ shortly the office there will be ready I'' 7 ceive its additional fittings and instrument^ ' A whaleboatleft Torero at ten am ' Sunday week last having as a crew fee'J! and one woman, bound for Wliaht™ where they arrived at half-past five i, m • They pulled up in the dark to the fit pa, where the woman fainted, and an C' afterwards died. an " our -i. Many of the burgesses in the borouj-h of Melrose are of opinion that the time hi come when the Mayor should receive son!' remuneration for his services, and at" thl next meeting the Borough Council will con aider a proposal that an allowance of £19 per annum should be paid. . t ' One resident of Tauranga has an eve to the) i profit attaching to small industries During the last few weeks he has collect between 201b and 301b of the seed of 2 macrocarpa. We are informed, savs Z Bay of Plenty Times, that there is a m l demand for this seed and that it is worth 15s per pound. ■ ; An extraordinary accident happened to Mr. J. Osborne at Awahuri (says the M vocate). He had just fed a favourite horse. and he was passing behind it when the ani! mal kicked him clean over a wire fence. Several of Mr. Osborne's ribs were broken He did not remember being kicked, the blow having rendered him senseless. In our issue of Saturday, 12th hut, wereferred to the wedding of Mr. A. R Atkinson, M.H.R., to Miss L. M. Kirk, of Wellington. We may remark that the secretairepresented by the New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union came' from Auckland, being designed and manufactured ■ by the Tonson Garlick Company (Limited) Last Friday week Mr. J. Watt, of Pahiatua, cabled to the big Glasgow firm of engineers he represents, ordering six gas en- ' gines. The cable was despatched at ten minutes to four on the Friday afternoon, and at ten minutes past nine on the Saturday morning he received a reply by cable that' the order was not only received, but the en-' gines actually shipped. . ,■■.••.£