NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11373, 16 May 1900, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

■?■:.' -. —-«• . ■ :■ . °- Mapoumka left for the South. v. _ Scarlet fever has broken out in Otaki. \| H.M.s. Mohawk arrived from Lyttelton.. jr There are three warships in port .at pred Sell •'•'" „ ■ , j ."'• tt* s. J: Pat sheep are worth 193 per head in Vic- ;.' Star of England arrived from London and o Australia. n The' barricades on the wharves are to be a removed at once. • The Westralia will be released from quaran,B tine this evening. c There are 13 cases of typhoid fever in the i Qisbome Hospital. . a The destruction of rate costs the Melbourne City Council £120 a week. Precautions to keep out the plague have , cost the Harbour Board £491 5s 2d up to '' date. 0 It is reported that the Sandon-Carnarvon 1 Tramway Company intends to extend its 9 steam tramway to the Bulls bridge. The plastering trade is brisk. The Ear- ' bour Board failed to get a tender for some r plastering work it required doing at Calliope s Dock, i. The Standard says that one of the most , brilliant displays of the Aurora Australia that r have been witnessed in Gore for a number of f years occurred on May 15. ' "We are putting vessels to much greater ' trouble and expense than are any of the Southern ports," states the Auckland Har--1 bourmaster, in his fortnightly report. A woman's body was found in the Yarra, r at Melbourne, the other night, with a large i white handkerchief tied tightly round her , mouth. She was about 35 years of age. 1 The Gore Standard slates that a Waikoikoi farmer threshed the magnificent average & of over 100 bushels of oats to the acre off a ' 16-acre paddock. At current prices this 1 means, roughly, a return of about £7 10s per acre. The Queenstown Borough Council has let j a tender for lighting the town with electricity , to Mr. James Tyrrell, a local resident. After , deliberation extending over a considerable r period the Council decided not to undertake s the lighting as a municipal undertaking. ) An enterprising Oamaru business man in* i tends (says the North Otago Times) to intraf duce a motor car as part of his business para--1 phernalia. Motor cars aro pleatiful in tho : Old Country, and in some of the larger Aus- , tralian towns, but there are very few of them ) in New Zealand. I The memorial tablet to the nine men of I the Tauranga Can-airy, who were killed at , Opepe in the last Maori war, has been handed , over by Mr, Adams, purchaser of the old ) school, where it was originally erected, to 3 the committee of the Gate Pa Memorial r Church, for re-erection in that building. 3 The effects of the two or three frosts, [ which occurred at the latter end of last month (says the Bay of Plenty Times), are f very noticeable in some parts of the district , on the maize crops, patches of which, in low- , lying land, have been completely bleached; . in most instances, however, the grain was 3 sufficiently far advanced to take little in--5 jury. ) A sensational bolt occurred in Queenstreet, Masterton, last Wednesday, when a ' horse, attached to a buggy, in which were ; seated two little girls, daughters of Mr. D , J. Cameron, bolted. The elder of the girls . | pluckily grabbed the reins, and succeeded in ,! steering the runaway horse clear of all ob- . J 1 "* 8 - until it was brought to a standstill i m \\ orksop Road. > There were three prisoners in the lockup ■ last evening, namely, a boy named Stone, . ; slated to have absconded from the Takapuna II Industrial School, on a charge of stealing . a suit of clothes from Mr George Povvlds° I draper, Queen-street ; a man named McPike' . from Paeroa, who is charged with maintenance ; and Thos. Tinley, on a charge of fighting in the street, and resisting the police.