NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 11543, 30 November 1900, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

to. AndkeVs Day. He will be closed to-day. Te Anaji arrived from the South. Tomoana and Matatua arrived from London and Australia. _ , A Trading Stamps Abolition Bill passed its second reading in tie Tasmanian Farliament early this month. , The quantity of sugar exported from Queensland for the fortnight ended the 15th inst. amounted to 5253 tons. The heaviest rainfall in the North Island during October was 19.79 in at the Summit, and in the South Island it was 17.09 m at bov named Dawes was killed by a flash of lighting at Granville (New South Waies) during a thunderstorm the other Saturday A man named George Johnstone was struck and killed by a falling tree whilst working at the foot of Mount Victoria, Isew South Wales, f. , . , Wonderful yields of hay are being obtained at the" Wagga experimental ly New South Wales, a record foi that part of the colony being established. The American Exporter quotes from a recent commercial article in the Zealaxd Herald, in reference to the displacement of English manufacture* here by American < The consolidated revenue o. Tasmania for the month of October amounted to £109, showing an increase ovei the returns for the corresponding month last year of £28.874. , The Board of Governors of the Auckland Grammar School has set up a committee to consider the advisability of establishing a board in for scholars attending that institution. , It was mentioned at a meeting of the Hawke's Bay Education Board the other day that the teacher of an inland school, sent up from town, had lost himseli in looking for the school. Mr. E. G. Allen. M.H.R.. appears to have been a heaw loser bv the recent severe weather. The Palmerston Times hears tnat he lost 120 out of 200 sheep that had just been shorn at Dunback. , A fierce thunderstorm, with forked lightning, heavv claps of thunder, and a tropical downpour of rain and hail, passed over Nelson on Saturday afternoon. The air was almos + as dark as at dusk. Each State school throughout South Australia is to be provided with a flagstaff, and a Union Jack will be hoisted when the children reassemble after the holidays. War medals will then be distributed. A drunken man, who was picked up in Palmerston North by the polict, was found with £14 2s Id in "cash in his possession, also two cheques for £7 each, and a deposit receipt from one of the banks for £1044 18a 6d.

" In that august body, the Parliament of New Zealand." remarked Captain Russell, at a meeting of the Hawke's Bay Education Board, " if a man starts a strange word it goes round the House for three weeks, until something else takes its place." " Three years ago I was in the new gaol at Dunedin." was the opening remark of a speech mad/? by a rev. gentleman at the Baptist Conference recently. Roars of laughter smothered the.explanatory sequel: "just before it wa. opened for the reception of prisoners." During'the past 12 months the Agricultural Department of Victoria has shipped 45.559 tons of oats to South Africa and China for the British and German Governments, and the Minister for Agriculture thinks the Victorian farmers should make an effort to retain this trade.

A painful accident happened at Gundagai to Katie Battye. eight. She was playing with a dog in Punch-street-, when she" fell from the top of a culvert, and dislocated her lower jaw, losing the whole of the teeth of the top jaw, besides smashing those in the lower, some of which penetrated her tongue. A kindly act was performed the other day by the pupils attending Miss Calvert''? school, at Opawa. They had been on a visit to the Christchurch Exhibition, aid on leaving the building took notice of a blind musician playing on the street. 'J h°y unanimously agreed to give the musician the amount of their return tram fare, and they walked home. Recently Charles Turner, a teamster, met with an exceedingly painful accident at Broken Hill. He was guiding his team of 10 horses, and while walking alongside, the team wedged him against a fence. In to get out of the way he tried to climb over the fence, but before he could get clear one of the shafts was drawn against his right leg, tearing the flesh off.