NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11533, 19 November 1900, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

'Feisco mail due to-morrow. Talune arrived from Sydney. . • Mararoa for Sydney this afternoon, i- Recently Leslie Frewin, a boy, was actidec tally drowned at Geraldton, West Australia. , t ' There is an increase of 311 in the population for October, disclosed in the West Australian returns. - , , , A man. named Harry Nelson was burned ito death in his camp, about halfway between Kalgoorlie and the Boulder. The brain and top part of the skull of Joe Governor has been forwarded to Sydney for the information of University students. Several members of the W.C.T.U., at Melbourne, spoke strongly against the introduction of religious teaching in State schools. "My wife has drove me to this, were the words a Melbourne suicide wrote and pinned in his hat before he drowned himself. " The championship for lady riders over fences at the Agricultural Show on Saturday afternoon was won by Miss Olive Buckland. Owing to recent legislation preventing the recovery of small debts, the bakers at Hastings are rendering their. accounts weekly* The* body found on Pedro Beach, Moruya (New South Wales), was that of an aboriginal who camped at the spot. Death occurred some weeks ago. A curious nugget of gold found on the surface after rain near Kimberley, West Australia, and valued at £108, was shaped exactly like Australia. Miss Ethel Abbott, a fearless young lady rider, won several prizes in the driving and riding competitions for ladies at. the Agricultural Show on Saturday. Two deaths occurred on the steamer Pilbarra during the run from West Australia to 'Adelaide. Two children named Quilty and 'Illmana succumbed to diarrhoea. A pest is reported to be destroying the potato crops in the Windsor district (New South Wales). It. is a new one, and is not what is generally known as* the potato moth. One of the largest shipments of butter ever despatched from Sydney for the English market, was sent away by the P. and 0. Company's Oceana. The consignment was made up of 9107 boxes. The other evening Francis Marr, eight, residing in Ridge-street, Bahnain, Sydney, fell down a flight of steps near the Balmain baths, breaking both his arms and sustaining several scalp wounds. Recently Ernest Scrivenei had a narrow escape from being drowned at Manning Heads by being washed overboard from the tug John Go'.lan. He was rescued after being two hours in the water. A seaman named Auguste Le Marchand, of the four-masted barque Cap Horn, was killed by falling down the hold of the vessel at Newcastle. At an inquest, a verdict of "Accidental death" was recorded. The gold output for West Australia for October, including the Mint receipts, was 133,2850z, valued at £506,486, against 205.1860z for October last year, and 148!305oz for September of this year. A lad named J. Lowe was knocked down on Friday, at New Plymouth, by a horse attached to a milk-cart, the wheel of which went over one of the lad's teet. and caused a temporary scare, but apparently no serious injury. At* Adelaide W. Campbell, landlord of the Cumberland Hotel, fired two shots at himself, one going through his head. He was found on the bedroom floor bleeding profusel v. He was removed to th; hospital, and "died the same evening. The other day Edward Morrell. a Frenchman, aged 72". died in Tamworth gaol, Sydney, whilst undergoing a sentence of four years' imprisonment for larceny. Deceased had been bedridden since March last, suffering from chronic rheumatism. Last week Mr. D. Gow. assistant lightkeeper at Nobbys. Newcastle, found a fine specimen of the flying fish family lying on the beach below Nobbys. The fish was 16in long, and measured 19in across the wings. Mr. Gow has presented the fish to the Technological Museum. Whilst severa.' little children were playing in the vicinity of the Egmont Boot Factory, New Plymouth, on Friday, an infant named Rowe was accidentally struck on the side of the head -with a piece of broken earthenware, causing a minor artery to be punctured, which bled rather profusely. During a violent storm at Walhalla, Victoria, a large tree was blown down. It crashed into a house occupied by a man named Delia Torre. The family were in bed. William de Louis, aged nine, brother of Mrs. Delia Torre, and her son, aged 18 : months, were killed. Mrs. Delia Torre and her husband were injured.