NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11576, 14 February 1901, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

SfOTEA from the South, to-day. Manaponri arrived from tie Islands. Steamer Baron Eldon left for the South. H.M.S. Mildora is expected to arrive from Wellington to-day. As a result of playing with firearms, a youth named Frank Earie was shot in the abdomen, at Sydney, on February 2. The damage "done to the ship Grace Harwar during her eventful trip to Giabome, has resulted in a good deal of labour being given out in Gisborne. A monster eel, weighing 24|Ib, was caught in a ■water-race oS the WaLkotkoi Stream (says the Tapanui Courier!. Its length was*sft 4fin, and its girth 22in. At the. Water Police Conn. Sydney, a voting man named Thomas O'Connor was sentenced to sir months' gaol, for cruelly beating a child, aged one year and 21. months. There has been & big decrease of business this season (since July 1, 1900) at the Sydney wool sales, amounting to 93,000 bales, as compared with the eoiresponding period -of last season. The Queensland Government have decided to appoint- a travelling teacher for the purpose of educating the children Jn the back blocks of the colony, who are t&." removeu from State schools. A seizure of 5503 cigars *s"as iui"!f en board the steamer Taiyuan, at Sydney, on February 1. by the Customs authorities. The goods were confiscated and lodged in lie King's warehouse. During the post month over I.ODOSXD bushels of wheat were delivered at- Darling Harbour, Sydney. In order to meet pSs traSc the construction of 503 has been authorised- < <r ,r^ The morning after the sjfSrj was receiver in Towcsville or the ( .4ltata of the Queer every. wore. mourning The* same ci jeestry raised £1103 in oik day for *i* iosnital. Xb/"gross earnings of the railways an-: , tramways c-f New South Wales for the las quarter "of 19G0 were the largest on record The increase -was £127,115 over the corvesponding quarter of the previous year. Fruit seems valueless in some parts o; Australia this season. In Victoria the crop of raspberries would not- pay for picking. The growers accordingly asked the Government for a bonus on raspberry pulp manufactured into jam. and obtained it. The following are the planks of the Stat* fighting platform adopted by the political labour "conference at Sydney:—Abolition oi the Upper House, compulsory _ arbitration, ■workmen's compensation, adult suffrage. free education, and local government. A bootmaker named John McXaxnara wa.! found dead at- Carlton, Victoria, with hi* throat cut from ear to ear. Deceased formerly Jived in Sydney, where he left hp ■wife." It is said'that some weeks ago hiwife wrote saying she was tired of him. A flaxmill has been started at Rangiporou sear Cape Runaway, by Mr. A. Fredsburg. of Dannevirke. Twelve tons have beer stripped and scotched, and a sample is now on its wav to Gisborne, which will probably be the shipping port for the new mdustrv. . A sailor named William Griffiths met wits a terrible death on January 1 during th« vovage of the barque Buckingham iron; Table Bay to Geelong, Victoria. He was engaged m a task on "the main-yard, wher he lost his hold, and fell head foremost or to the deck. His chest was smashed to a pulp, and the force of the fall drove his teeth firmly into the deck. Death was instantaneous. Deceased was buried at sea. The death of Mrs. Bridget Theresa Taylor, wife of John Taylor, residing at th« Caledonian Hotel, King-street. Sydney, ha' been reported to the coroner. On January 17 Mrs. Taylor was retiring to bed. -wber she stooped "to pick up hei slippers, and tin Same of a candle came into contact wit?: her nightdress. Her cries brought her husband to her assistance, and he extinguishes the flames, but- she had been fatally burned.