NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11745, 29 August 1901, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Divorce case proceeding in the Supreme Court. The Te Anau arrives irom the South today. Yesterday the Tyser liner Mimiro left for the South. The Zealandia left Sydney for Auckland yesterday. The next 'Frisco mail leaves Auckland on September 7. The Island steamers Taviuni and Hauroto leave to-day. A contemporary states that a Nelson clergyman now holds special services for footballers. The Napier School Committee is arranging to have the elder girls under its juris- , diction instructed in the art of cutting out material for garments. , The Queensland Government have completed the purchase of the Goomburra Estate, in the AJlora district, containing 13,255 acres. The price paid is £41,249. It is stated on good authority (says the Timaru Post) that a co-operative wool-scour-ing and fellmongery works will be started shortly in the vicinity of Timaru. A girl named Catheiine Rivelle, aged 18 years, was committed for trial at Broken,, Hill, on a charge of wilfully murdering her fortnight-old child by strangulation. < At the Wellington Opera House the other evening, during the crush at the doors, a man was relieved of £11 by some of the light-fingered gentry that abound in the Empire City. Rabbit poisoning is now being carried on extensively in the Clinton district, Otago, and the bunnies take it very readily, owing, it is said, to the scarcity of grass after the late fall of snow. The weight of evidence given before the Federal Decimal Coinage Committee at Melbourne is to the effect that if any decimal - system is introduced the sovereign should be retained as the basis. The Nelson Mail states that the ore in the Chrome mine at the Croixelles, which appeared to have given out a few weeks ago, has been picked up lower down the hill, and the prospects are as good as ever. A Foxton resident named Thomas Robb met with a peculiar accident last week. He walked through the window of his bedroom, , .which was situated on the second floor. Beyond a severe bruising and shaking, however, he was unharmed. A resident on Albury settlement informs the Timaru Herald that the snowfall one day last week, amounted to 4in or sin. The snow and sharp frosts following it have been hard on live stock in the settlement. The Victorian fruit export season, which closed a, few weeks ago, was a record for any year so far. No fewer than 35,000 cases of fruit of all varieties passed under the supervision of the Agricultural Department. The previous record was 27,000. The Timaru Post says the Commissioner of Crown Lands is having the property known as Sullivan's Farm, ac Kakahu, surveyed, prior to being thrown open to the public for lease in perpetuity. The land is situated about nine miles west of l'leasant Point. A little boy named Queale died at New 'Aberdeen (South Australia) from blood poisoning, resulting from an injury received by falling on a sharp piece of dead stick about nine weeks previously. The stick passed through his mouth and stabbed the back of his throat. The severity of the weather this year has largely checked butter production in Victoria, Before the first week in August last year-nearly 500 tons of butter had been' exported from Victoria, whereas for a similar period this year the export was nil, and very little came to hand. Recently Mr. Jeremiah Perry, a wellknown miller, at Parkes (New South Wales), passed away with awful suddenness. He had just delivered some goods to a customer, to whom he was, chatting about the crops, when he said that his head was swimming round, and sank to the ground a corpse. The first claim under the Darling Har--5? hour Resumption Act, which came before : 'the Sydney Court, was decided on the 15th ' inst. Eva Connell Horderri sought to re- • cover £14,690, in respect of resumed properIS ties belonging to her. The Government —-offered £9075, and the Court awarded £10,100. • Those who profess to know are confident they have discovered a coal field along the Hawke's Bay coast, and as a result boring : operations are to be commenced at once •with a view to proving the seam. If this ; should prove true, it will come as a boon and a blessing to the long-suffering residents of the district. -* ' The "Mangaweka correspondent of the Wai,'rarapa Daily Times states that so far from the Makohine viaduct being well in hand, ' the concrete foundations are not laid. The , excavations for the foundations have been dug out, but for weeks past the work has been suspended, and the holes at present are full of water. At Preston (Victoria), Joseph Morgan, after having milked some cows, went to his room, and, sitting on a stool, said a few words to a man named Storey, who was also there. He then turned his back on his companion, and apparently acting on a sudden impulse he drew a revolver from his pocket, and placing the muzzle in his mouth fired and fell forward dead.