NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11551, 15 January 1901, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Suez mail arrived. . ' ; . Mararoa left for Sydney. 11 Talune | for the South. thi3 afternoon, -• . The Mararoa made a very smart run up from Gisborne. - The overdraft of the Hutfc County Council amounts to £2832. Bullion valued at £6500 was sent away to London, via Sydney, yesterday. The General Sy nod of the Anglican Church in New Zealand will begin in Napier on the 29th inst. The Queensland gold yield for the year 1900 was 951,0650z, showing an increase of 4000oz on 1899. • . A large area of self-sown crops in the Albury district is expected to pan out 10 bushels to the acre. The Queensland Government's expenditure has exceeded the revenue during the past six months by £77,358. • - At the funeral of the late Captain A. McGregor Mr. W. J. Jobson, Inspector of Machinery, was present. 3. young man named Hutchen had his hand very badly crushed by a falling tree in the bush near Karangahake. Whilst playing with matches a little child at Gundagai, New South Wales, set herself on fire, and was burned to death. Fruitgrowers in the Nelson district are grumbling because they cannot get more than 2Jd per lb for their raspberries.. The strange disappearance of a young man from Glenmaggie, near Sale, Victoria, has caused great excitement there. Foul play is suspected. A quantity of Wreckage has been found near Xempsey, New South Wales, including fealf a ship's boat and a box containing 501b of dynamite. The new yacht Sunbeam, which is to compete in the international yacht race at Sydney on the 26th inst., was sent away to Sydney by the Mararoa yesterday. " Minahs are becoming almost a pest in some districts on the East Coast. They are so daring that they actually pick at the potatoes boiling outside in the settlers' sauce-

pans. The Victorian Defence Minister considers that one of the first duties of the Federal Minister for Defence should be to arrange for the visit of a representative Australian rifle team to Bisley, Four young men are to be prosecuted at the instance of Mr. Moorehouse, chief ranger of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, for illegally- taking trout. It is alleged that " tickling" was the method employed. The first rocket sent up ; from the Town Hall, Sydney, on the night of the 3rd inst., threw out of its star shower four points of blue, which hung in the air for a time, in the exact form of the constellation of the

Southern Cross. A lad, aged 18, named John Ellis, was shooting at. Mount Durreel, Victoria, when his gun went oft accidentally. , The full charge entered his head, and one of his eyes and a portion of his skull had to be removed. His recovery is doubtful. ; Owing to the reports of inferior Victorian butter being offered on the English market, the Victorian Minister for Agriculture has decided to introduce a Bill next session providing for a Government stamp being placed on all butter for export. '. The following is the state of Her Majesty's Prison, Auckland, for the week ending Saturday, January 12 : —On remand, 3 males, 2 females;, awaiting trial, 11 males; penal servitude for life, 2 males; hard labour, 132 males, 13 females;' imprisonment, 2 males; received during the week, 22 males, 5 females; discharged, 23 males, 7 females: total in prison, 150 males, 15 females. The Wyndham Farmer learns that a new Roman Catholic parish is about to be opened on the Waimea Plains. It will embrace the districts of Lumsden, Balfour, Wakaia, and Riversdale, with headquarters at the lastnamed place. The Rev. Father Keenan, at present the colleague of the Rev. Father O'Donnell, rector of Gore parish, will take charge of the new parish. A new priest, as successor to Father Keenan, will join Father O'Donnell almost immediately.