NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11712, 23 July 1901, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

<•;'.■"■',- Suez mail arrived. tSvEZ mail arrived. Sydney. Zealandia left for Sydney. Hkbaid Summary Friday. r V Tho population of West Australia is given as 187,640. . The barque. Kathleen Hilda had a rough trip across from'.'Newcastle. There 1 were 80,097 ounces of gold won by 11 Kalgoorlie mines last month. The warship Torch has returned to port after big gun practice in the gulf. Elingamita arrived from Sydney, and leaves for the South this afternoon. Twelve thousand school children sang to j the Duke and party on entering-Adelaide. Sweeping reforms in petty courts are to be introduced in the new Victorian Justice Bill. The Mayor of Sydney is anxious to prevent the extension of buildings of extreme height. The Persic will take 12,000 bags of wheat I Twelve thousand school children an exthe Duke and party on entering-Adelaide. Sweeping reforms in petty courts are to be introduced in the new Victorian Justice The Mayor of Sydney is anxious to prevent the extension of buildings of extreme height. The Persic will take 12,000 bags of wheat from Sydney to London in bulk as an experiment. A dredge is to be sent up to Cairns by the Queensland Government to clean the bar at the harbour. f , Among applicants for old age pensions at Orange, New South Wales, is a woman 101 years of age. \ On July 12, Henry Kippax, a Botany resident, fell down in a fit in George-street, Sydney, ■ and died. The new Government schooner Countess of Raiifurly was christened by His Excellency the Governor yesterday. Sugar (mills are preparing for crushing in ths Mackay district of Queensland, where the weather is favourable to the crop. i An agitation is being'made in Melbourne to have -the time-table of the Sydney exI press altered" for business conveniences. the weather is favourable to the crop. An agitation is being made in Melbourne to have the time-table of the Sydney express altered" for business conveniences. On July 11 Joseph Ketterer was blown to pieces by a charge exploding at Lloyd Copper Company's mine, Burraga, New South

Wales. ••■';• At Trangie, New South Wales, a boy named Samuels . has 'been accidentally shot, making the third within seven days in New South Wales. Under favourable circumstances it is, considered that it will take two years for grain elevators to come into operation in New South Wales. New regulations for fire escapes will be formulated by the Melbourne Board of Health in consequence of the disasters at Hordem's fire. ~* Six men were arrested yesterday, charged with pilfering cargo on board of the Tyser steamer Tomoana, from New York, ■ at the Queen-street Wharf. An official certificate will be a necessary <> ■ accompfjiiment with all fruit sent from New South Wales to West Australia, certifying it free from disease. There were 557,600 bales of wool received for shipment at Darling Harbour, Newcastle, and Morpeth (New South Wales), last.year, being an increase of 78,000 bales. Strange how tragic deaths run in families. The father of Coleman Ross,* who committed suicide at Mabel last week, was killed .when returning from Invercargill after witnessing j . the late Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Invercargill. One of the town councillors at Invercargill wanted to vote a bonus of £10 to the Mayor " for the worthy manner in which -ae represented the town on the occasion of the , ducal visit to Dunedin." Another councillor objected to the vote being passed, and the matter dropped. i i As a slight recognition of his conspicuous kindness to them, members of the Mataura » ?' Valley Contingent have presented Mr. McNab, M.H.R., with a Mauser rifle, captured from the Boers, and a brass cordite shell, used in the 4. tin naval guns, both gifts being appropriately inscribed. The following is the state of His Ma- _ jesty's prison, Auckland, for the week ending Saturday, July 20: On remand, 6 , - males, 2 females; awaiting trial, 9 males; penal . servitude for life, 2 males; hard labour, 159 males, 14 * females ; imprisonment, 1 male; default of bail, 1 male; debtors, 2 males ; received during the week, '14 males, 11 females; discharged, 21 males, 8 females; total in prison, 180 males, 16 Jemales. __^___^____ m v.!,'".*.., . . —^— — —————— ■. .■.■■■ <