NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11540, 27 November 1900, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Elingamitk left for Sydney. ; HZealandia for the South this afternoon. ' H.M.s. Mildura is coming to Auckland, i 'Che Elingamite took a large shipment of toaiza to Sydney yesterday. '!.*he Mariposa is due at this port from Earn Francisco on December 12. Bullion valued at £7500 left for Sydney |»y the Elingamite yesterday, en route for fiondon. , , ; Forty year ago the number of sheep in the provincial district of Canterbury was 20,000. Now it is 4,000,000. Recently Albert Halfpenny, a miner, met his death in a shocking manner at the Eaglehawk mine, New South Wales. The Commonwealth commemoration medals, ordered by the Queensland Government, are to cost £12 10s per 1000. The Timaru Herald learns that some sheep belonging to Mr. G. J. Dennistoun, of Peel Forest, were killed by lightning in the violent storms which raged over South Canterbury on Tuesday last. The moth plague, which proved so annoying to householders last summer, has again Biade it» appearance in the outlying parts of Cowra, New South Wales, where the insects are said to be in myriads. The tallest man in the Denmston Volunteer Corps is Mi. George Learmonth, 6ft J7in • his brother James comes next, 6ft 3Jin, and two more tied at 6ft 2in. The average height is sft 9in, and chest measurement {38m. Mr. J. Vigor Brown has sent Home for a Scottish Standard, which he intends presenting to the town of Napier. This will be very appropriate, as a Union Jack and an Irish flag have recently been donated to the (own. , , - The first case of the kind, where a prisoner is allowed under the new legislation to plead guilty to an indictable offence, and simply be sent up to the Supreme Court for sentence, occurred in the Police Court yesterday. So great was the demand for lodging accommodation in Palmerston at the time of the show, that several applications were made to the police to be allowed to occur# the lockup. A good number walked the Streets all night. Some years ago an experiment was made in using "burnt papa its metal in several portions of the Alfredton district. A recent visitor to the locality informs the Wairarapa Star that the papa has set well, and has made a good, serviceable road. The export of Tasmanian. timber appears to have increased greatly of late. A shipment of immense piles was sent to England last year for Admiralty works at Dover, and that* it proved satisfactory is attested to by the fact that similar orders have been placed jn Tasmania this year. He other morning a painful occurred at the Sacred Heart Church, now in course of erection, near the Rose Bay Convent, Sydney, to a labourer named Adolpli W»gner. He fell heavily from a ladder to the tesselated floor, and sustained fractures of the right thigh and kneecap. He was conveyed to the Sydney Hospital for treatment. , ♦

The body of a man named Alfred Kirks Has discovered in a dam at Rapp's Gully, four miles south of Gulgong (New South .Wales). The body was bound with halfinch rope, which was passed around the .stomach and back, over the arms near the elbow, and then twisted; then round the ■wrist®, and tied with a reef knot. There (Were two abrasions on the forehead.

The following is the state of Her Majesty's prison, Auckland, for the week ending Saturday, November 24:—On remand, 4-males; awaiting trial, 2 males, 2 females; penal servitude for life, 2 males; hard labour, 138 males, 13 females; imprisonment, 2 males; default of bail, 1 male; received daring the week, 22 males. 3 females; discharged, 31 males, 4 females : total in prison, 149 males, 15 females.

A case of apparent suicide is reported from Greenwell Point, Nowra (New South Wales), where the body of a young married woman, named Baxter, has been found on the beach. Deceased wandered away from tome, carrying her youngest child, six months old. No trace of the child has been found, and it is presumed that it was carried out to sea by the demented mother and drowned, too. Deceased leaves a husband and a young family.