NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11629, 17 April 1901, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

EAVOTNI due from Fiji. Zealandia left for the South. Waimate arrived from London and Aus-

tP There was a very thick fog over the city and harbour yesterday morning. The Conciliation Board sits at Paeroa tomorrow in connection with the mining dis-

PU There were 40,000 enumerators employed in collecting the census in New South 'it £ proposed, if sufficient inducement offers, to start a Cornish Society at Gisborne. ... ' '- • . . „ The total quantity of gold won lasmania for March was 44720z from 4023 tons of quartz, the value being £17,324. At Opotiki Mr. R. T. Abbots youngest son Roy was thrown from his horse the other <iav and sustained a fractured arm. The Gisborne Municipal Council start 4herr new financial year with a clean rate book. There is not a single rate unpaid. Tho recent Sydney Agricultural and Pastoral show was attended by 65,000 persons, the gate money being no less than £2860. The Minister for Public Works has authorised bush-felling on the North Island Main Trunk Railway beyond Taumarunui. Cook and Waiapu Counties are attached to the Hawke's Bay district for the purposes of the Slaughtering and Inspection -^ Ct - - X- -4.1. The first invitations in connection with the opening of the Federal Parliament were addressed to the Premier of Victoria and his wife. . It is announced in last weeks Gazette that the Government offices throughout the colony ill be closed on May .(Queen Victoria Day). ' , __ ,„ , The additions made to the Wellington Meat Export Company's works have increased the storage capacity of the premises to 40,000 carcases. • A man named Coyle was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment at Eketalnma for using obscene language, resisting the police, and being drunk. A man named James Donnelly was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment atFeilding on Thursday for stealing a totalisator ticket from Florence O'Leary. The maize crops about Poverty Bay are later than usual in maturing this year, but some of them (says the Gisborne Times) are the best ever seen in the district. The Anglican Mission has the credit of having established the first light for navigators or the coast of British New Guinea and of opening the first school for white children in the Possession. The taxing master of the Brisbane Supreme Court has finished the adjustment of the costs in the Tyson case. The Crown claim was £10.028. The taxing master has taxed off various items, making the total amount allowed £6398.

Mr. J. D. Stewart, veterinary surgeon, from Sydnev, and the Cobar Stock Inspector, are investigating a peculiar disease in sheep in the Cobar district. There have been three outbreaks, two on stations, and one amongst travelling sheep. The best yields of grain so far m the Clutha district, as disclosed by the mill returns, have been at Mr. George Smaills (Pnkepito), 60 bushels of wheat to the acre and 70 bushels oats, and at Mr. L. Campboll's (Pukepito), 50 bushels oats. A young woman named Mary Pickering died on April 5 in the Newcastle Hospital. On 'February 18 last the deceased, while washing at a house at the Sandhill*, met with a serious burning accident, her clothes becoming ablaze as she was emptying a boiler.' It was stated at a milkmen's meeting at Christchurch, that the jugs left by many people at their back doors for milk are disgracefully dirty. "Many a jug," said one member, "has the last night's beer still in the bottom of it when it is left for the milk to be put in." A unique case came before Commissioner Hall at the Zeehan (Tasmania) Police Court the other day, J. Matthews, labourer, being proceeded against under section 11 of the Masters and" Servants Act with being drunk and disorderly at the Tasmania Smelting Company's works. The Commissioner, in inflicting a fine of £1, remarked that the man had rendered himself liable to a fine of £20, or three months' imprisonment.