MEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11782, 11 October 1901, Page 6

MEWS IN BRIEF.

Te Anatt arrived from the South. On the 2nd inst. the s.s. Matatua left London for Auckland direct.

The Zealandia Mill not arrive from the South until Monday morning. The s.s. Gothic is due at Wellington on Wednesday next from London. The rowing season opens to-morrow afternoon with a procession of boats in the harbour.

We have to acknowledge receipt of the Post and Telegraph Guide for the month of October.

A Masterton pastoralist lost 150 lambs through turning them into a paddock tainted. With rust.

The 'Frisco mails which left Auckland on September 7, were delivered in London on the 9th inst.

The colonial mails which left Melbourne! by the Orizaba, on September 4, were delivered in London on the Bth inst.

A man named George Smith hanged himself in a lodginghouse in Victoria Square, Adelaide. He was despondent through being out of work. The Archbishop or Sydney considers that temptations to precipitate secret and " cheap " marriages through so-called matrimonial agencies constitute a serious danger. The tender of Messrs. Stewart and Fenn, for the lighting of Messrs. Bycroft, Limited's, mill and biscuit factory by electricity, being th:. lowest received, has been accepted. A large area of ground in the Eketahuna district (says the Express) is this season being planted in winter feeds, such as mangold, etc., the need of which has been keenly felt during past seasons. Whilst farmers in the South Island have been complaining about the backwardness of ploughing operations, excellent and most satisfactory progress has been made in spring work throughout the Wairarapa. Thres Hawera borough councillors have tendered their resignation as a protest against the Mayor's refusal to put a resolution condemning an unauthorised letter which he had written, at his own instigation. The farmers of North Canterbury were delighted to get a nice rain at the end of last week. Pasture land and crops were badly in want of moisture, and the rain proved of immense benefit throughout the country. The Minister for Mines and Agriculture of New South Wales is about to offer some valuable prizes for butter suitable for export. The first prize will be £30 and a gold medal, and the second will be £20 and a silver medal.

A number of Chinese bodies in the Greymouth cemetery were disinterred recently in order to be sent back to China. The Greymouth cemetery was closed from daylight till noon, as long as the work of disinterment continued.

The secretary of the Timaru Harbour Board told the Board at its meeting last week that four claims had been sent in under the accident insurance since the previous meeting, and there were two, three, or four claims sent in every month. It has been decided to erect a lamp at McKenzie township, Cheviot, at the corner of Seddon and Rolleston Streets, as a memorial to the late Sir John McKenzie. The sum of £67 2s 6d has already been subscribed towards the object by the Cheviot settlers.

Temuka intends shortly to raise a loan of £2500 for drainage and water supply. There will be a system of concrete channels, supplemented by pipe sewers where necessary. These will be flushed by a water-race brought from near Winchester, and will discharge into the river after purification of the sewage. An Oamaru School Committee is anxious as to its liability under the Workers' Compensation for Accident Act. and has determined to resign in a body should it be held that it is responsible for an accident to any men employed in doing a job about its school building. During the short time that the meat for consumption in the borough of Mataura, has been killed and inspected at the local abattoirs,, two prime bullocks (one a finelooking beast costing £7) have been condemned by Mr. Cunningham, the Govern-

A serious difficulty exists against the destruction of rabbits with phosphorised pollard in the Condobelin district, New South Wales. The stock there are so used to eating anything available that they readily follow the poison furrow and eat the baits. Fifteen fine wethers have recently been poisoned in the manner indicated.

At Tallangatta, Victoria. Mr. Heeps, head-teacher at the local school, was. with the assistance of his son Reginald, aged 10, trying to poke a rabbit out of a hollow log into •which it had run; The boy watched the end of the log, but instead of the rabbit a tiger snake 4ft long emerged and fastened on to his hand. The father scarified and sucked the wound before the arrival of the doctor, but the boy died in the evening. A little girl named Elizabeth Bonner, aged 12, died under peculiar circumstances at Elmore. Victoria, the other day. While running about in her bare feet at home a piece of bone penetrated the ball of the great toe. The parent* extracted the bone, but later the child complained of severe pains extending right to her neck, the case proving to be one of sever tetanus.