JEEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11685, 21 June 1901, Page 6

JEEWS IN BRIEF.

iMJDCRA arrived from the South. The Star of England leaves for London, via Ihe South, today. . ' Two men lost their lives in a fall of eartn at Nihotupu yesterday. West, Australia's gold output for May was 144,0370z, valued at £554,736. A large deficit at the end of the financial year is predicted in West Australia. News of the loss of five live* by a yachting accident at Noumea has been received. The demand for New Zealand poultry for South Africa is greater than the supply. Typhoid is prevalent at Tarrawingee, near Broken Hill, two of eleven cases having proved fatal. . ~ , , . , The building trade » exceedingly brisk in Dannevirke; but despite this fact houses are difficult to obtain. The Melanesia!! .Mission yacht Southern Cross is expected to arrive from the Islands about the end of this month. A petition is now in circulation asking the Government, to establish a Stale fruit and poultry farm in Hawke's Bay. At the Waipawa Hunt, a young girl named Mason, who was riding without a saddle, fell at one of the jumps and broke her arm. A sum of £10,335 7s 2d has been received in* donations towards the Queen Victoria memorial at Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. The municipal authorities have fenced in the Philson allotment in front of the Municipal Buildings, with a substantial fence of tour rails. At Inglewood, a young man named Otto f-'chultz was brought up on three charges of horse-stealing,' and was committed for trial on each count. The Dalefield Dairy Company. Carterton, has made a record output of cheese for the season just closed. At £45 per ton, its value will reach £15,000. Mr. Hut bison, S.M.. held a sitting of the Old Age Pension Court at Onehungn yesterday, and authorised a renewal certificate to'Bridgct Sullivan for £13. Excellent progress is being made with the removal of the Venetian masts from Queenstreet. The posts are lifted by screw jacks, without digging holes in the street. Oarnaru Borough Council Las confirmed the proposal to increase the ordinary rate | from 9d to Is 3d. The additional sixpence will bring the borough rates up to 2s 9d in the £. On Friday evening, near Wanganui, one of the new American carriages attached to the train from south went off the line. The nils were torn up for some distance, but no other damage was none. The Nelson abattoirs have increased the indebtedness of that borough by £7500. and, reckoning interest on capital, repairs, de- ! preciation of property, wages, and inspection, cost upwards of £1640 per annum. : Mr. W. F. Greenaway, of Dannevirke. is ' pushing the white pine trade with Aus- j tralia.' At present he has two mills work- | ing at Mokau cutting white pine, and three j vessels make regular trips to Australia with ■ the timber. j In a recent letter to a friend at Napier, | Captain Hollingsworth, of the Tyser line, j expressed the opinion that a good trade in j frozen meat might be opened up at Manila, j ■where inferior Australian mutton is selling , at lOd per lb. { Yesterday morning some of the members | of the Board of Conciliation left for Aratapu. : for the purpose of hearing the evidence for j the union in the dispute in the timber trade, j After taking evidence at Aratapu. it is j understood the hearing of the case will be i adjourned to Auckland. ; The other evening a cyclist rode into a | horse ridden bv a lad. at' the coiner of the ; River Bank Road and Church Place, Wan- I ganui, bringing the horse down heavily, and j causing it to' cut its knees badly. '1 he cy- I clist, who had no light, escaped with a few | bruises and some damage to the machine. j A lad named Willie Trembath, son of Mr. | Francis Trembath. whilst riding a horse in j Pahau-street, Thames, yesterday, accident- i ally collided with a trap driven by Mr. I Eiiest Deeble. with the result that he was i thrown from his horse, and sustained a painful injury to one of his knees, besides re- , ceiving several minor injuries. j Ah a result of the recent conference of ' Railway Commissioners in Melbourne, the ' fares between Sydney nnd Melbourne have j been reduced to £4 -class, and S3 second- ; class single, the return fares being £5 first- j class, and £4 10s second-class. The fares , between Svdnev and Brisbane are to be: : First-class." single £4. return £6; secondclass, single £2 12s 6d. return £4. _ | A child four years old, named Crosby, liv- j ing with its parents at MasiertoiK was badly ; 'burnt on Monday morning. The parents i went out to milk early in the morning, I leaving the little one in b:d asleep. ant! j •when thev returned they were horrified to j find that the child had fallen into the .-a j and been fearfully burnt. The injuries re- j ceived are so serious that little hope is • entertained of the child surviving. ;