NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11642, 2 May 1901, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

£h Anait from the Sooth to-day. Steamer Samoa left for Samoa. .The Flora leaves for Fiji to-day. Hauroto arrived from the Islands. Indraghiri left for London, via the South. The streets of Bulls are now lit by means Of acetylene gas. There are 83,013 dairy cows and heifers in the Taranaki district. There are three lawyers in the present Masterton Borough Council. According to the census returns there were 132 uninhabited houses in Nelson on March Si. Typhoid fever is rife in Poverty Bay. During the past few months there have been 26 cases. The Grey River Argus learns that there is a likelihood of the old Tyneside mine being again set going at Wallsend. On April 24 an old woman named Mrs. Poole, residing at Dalton, New South Wales, fell into a fire, and was burnt to death. Recently Alexander Robinson, licensee of the Yanco Glen Hotel, near Broken Hill, and a son of his, were drowned in a dam. The Nelson ratepayers have decided in : favour of a proposal of the City Council to purchase the tramway between Nelson end the Port for a sum of £1350. The Westinghouse break is fitted to the train in which is included the American railway carriage, that is now making a trial run on the Wellington-Napier Plymouth section. The Wairarapa Times says that recently the Bishop of Wellington was upset from a boat into lOffc of water into the Wharearna River, but was promptly rescued from his involuntary immersion. The New Plymouth Prohibition League ihas decided to call a special meeting of all temperance workers immediately any steps tire taken to make applications for a new license in New Plymouth. The important question of breeding horses for armv purposes is now engaging the attention "of the Government of West Australia, which is receiving suggestions as to the best f v stem to follow. The Wellington Education Board has decided to alter the period of the midwinter holidays of the schools under its jurisdiction this year, so that the holidays shall occur | at the time of the Royal visit to Welling- i ton. A number of the cattle of Mr. J. Strang, of Glenside, Gladstone, have been found shot on their runs. It is thought that this has been the work of deerstalkers, who have been cautioned against trespassing on Mr. Strang's land. The Grey River Argus states that during the late flood the Otira River rose Bft or 9ft, and the stone work was broken down, and ■washed out in many places. The railway between Goat Creek and Jackson's was unsafe for traffic. "It is in the interest of the public," said Mr. R. Beethnm, SAL. at the Christchurch Magistrate's Court lately, "to keep sharebroking as clean as" can be. If we don't car? we shall soon have it in the same condition as horseracing." " I think we have overdone the system of judging our educational system by examination results," said the Secretary for Education at the Teachers' Salaries Commission, at Wellington. And other experts present said " Hear, hear." According to the Mayor of Gisborne, there is urgent need for sanitary reform in that town. His Worship asserts that some of the houses arc worse than drains. The floors come down on to the ground, and the buildings are damp and ill-smelling.