NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11434, 26 July 1900, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

r "'^sco'mail'duo Tu^dav ;^SatS r tmdSiathe S °S-Qvalau proceeds to Westport this ■ Bf Srnment stumer Tutanekai left for 1024 birihsand 378 deaths were registered in Sydney. Steamer ThornhiU due from New York | and-the South on Saturday. - ; A ;v number of Austnans arrived from r ; ' ; Sydney by the larawera yesterday. • '■■'■■■■ The Mission yacht Southern Cross is due ' from the Islands about the end of this month. As a precautionary measure a plague hospital is to be erected at Wanganui near the rifle range. . •' Maslerton has been appointed a local centre lor Trinity College musical examina- " *' tions in the Wairarapa. Four new dairy factories are being erected ' 'in the Manawatu district, and are to be '... ready for, operations during the approaching season. '- ! ■■ An apprentice on the barque Lodore, from '.'■ Marseilles, fell from aloft when 1C days out. CU was landed at Cartlutgena, but succumbed to his injuries. Petroleum boring ist to bo resumed at Inglcwood, Taranaki, shortly. Local residents;' backed by outside capitalists, have the matter in hand. At Melbourne Michael Riley, a fireman, jumped from the window of a hotel in Little Flinders-street, a distance of 20ft, and escaped without injury. When 500 miles cast of Capetown the barque Quilpuo, bound from Hamburg to Sydney, experienced a sandstorm, the sand falling on the deck like rain. _ _ During the voyage of the barque Pesta-.-oi From New York to Sydney, an A.B. named Bottieb Kanlco tell from the main-topgallant into the'sea, and was drowned. The. Premier of South Australia stated ill the Assembly that the Government could •not interfere" if tho Imperial authorities or the Chartered Company offered land grants .to Australian soldiers in South Africa. - July's average rainfall in Wellington (6in) has already been exceeded, though only half tho month has passed. At 9 o'clock this nioniing the register for the past 16 days at , the Observatory was 6.38 in, and rain lias fallen on 12 days. All those areas in the Auckland land district, situate in Block 11., Albatross survey district, and Blocks IX. and XIII., Kawhia North survey district, being portions of the Taharoa A Block, and containing 360 acres, 49 acres, and 76 acres, respectively, are reserved as a site for a native township. After a football match at Melbourne, on Saturday week, between South Melbourne and Fit'zroy, which was won by the latter, a discreditable scene occurred. Sloan, the Fitzroy captain, and McSpcerin, vice-cap- . tain, were severely handled by some of the crowd. AH the footballers rallied and reecued the two men. There were 25 deaths from violence in Sydney, end suburbs last month, viz. -. Accidents, 22; fractures and contusions, 13 ; guiisliot wounds, 2 ; burns, 2 : drowning, , '6 ; and suffocation—infants overlain, 2 , in- ; > fanticide, 1 ; and suicides, 2 (of cab-driver, aged 57, by drowring ; and of a butcher, aged 59, by hanging). An engineer named Samuel Grant was fatally injured while working on the R.Al.s. Aorangi in Sydney on the 4th inst. He was standing on the deck superintending the v ' shipment of a new pump for the engine- '; room, when the iron hook became detached from above, and fractued his skull. At the :. inquest the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. :V Our. Paeroa correspondent telegraphed ,' last night: —A large number of natives from • '.different settlements along the line between i Paeroa and Thames passed through Paeroa to-day, en route to Rotorua. It appears that they have been advised of a subsidence there, and they stated then mission to Ro- .:- torua was to remove tho bones of some of their dead ancestors to a burial-ground not affected by the disturbance.