NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11824, 29 November 1901, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

« Kbbald Summary. ' To-morrow is St. Andrew's Day. Moura arrived from the South. A Suez mail arrives to-morrow. The Trisco mail leaves to-morrow. The Rakanoa leaves for Fiji this even-

ins. ' The insurance companies' offices will be dosed to-morrow. Some exceptionally fine wheat crops are ito be seen at Akura. .-r.it. There are several cases of English cholera in Wellington. A sample of crude petroleum has been ebtamed close to Eltham. A paper is about to be started at Taihape, a township on the Main Trunk railway. The gold returns of the Auokland mining district for the past three weeks constitute a record. Shearing is progressing well .in the Lower Valley, Wairarapa, and most of the large stations have finished. A public meeting held at Whangarei on Monday night decided by a largo majority not to abolish the wards in the borough. The inspector of stock at Masterton expresses the opinion that Shorthorn-cross calves appear to dc better on skim-mdK than other breeds. The Marlborough Land and Railway League is recommending the Government to have the Lake Grassmere property drained and cut up fo. settlement. The Collector of Customs, Mr. Alex. Rose, has received a telegram from the tide waiter at Whangarei Heads stating that the big black buoy located there has gone adrift. . x , The building and engineering trades are reported to be very dull in Dunedin, and a large number are out of work. The collapse of the dredging boom is responsible for the change. Yachtsmen should note that the beason on Horse-shoe Reef, off St. Helier's Bay, has disappeared, and until it has been re-erected tare should be exercised cruising in the vicinity of the reef. A great deal of damage was done by the high winds that prevailed at Carterton last week, the fruit trees suffering considerably. The small bird nuisance is nothing compared to it. His Worship the Mayor, Mr. Alfred Kidd, has received the following subscriptions to•ward« the Cheviot relief fund:—A Friend, 3s; F. Mills, Faeroa, 2s; A Ponsonby Family, 18s. ~..,. . , ~ An * enterprising individual turned the mischief to to; Christchurch Cathedral spire to business account the other afternoon. He set up a large telescope in the recess near the water tanks, and did a thriving trade in allowing passers-by to take a peep at so much a bead. On November 20 Rose Meagher was 'drowned in Quirindi Greek, New South Wales. She went crayfishing with a lob of other children, and got out of her depth. A woman close by managed to get her from the water. Dr. "Gray tried to restore animation, but unsuccessfully. A young man named Denis Ward, supposed" to be suffering from lead poisoning, died suddenly at Broken Hill recently. -After talking to a friend, the latter left him. and passing again half-an-hour afterwards found him stretched on the ground dead. The evidence at the inquest showed that his death was due to heart disease. Harvesting for grain has already commenced on isolated farms in Queensland. Some of the more advanced crops are badly tangled by the heavy storms and strong winds which have been felt on the Downs, but with the high-class harvesting machinery now on the market, the greater part of it will be saved. Some magnificent crops of malting barley have. been harvested.

Dr. Alan Reeve Manley, M.D., M.V.0., etc., surgeon-apothecary to H.M. the King, and Physician in Attendance on Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, has sent a letter to Mr. Muir, in which he speaks highly of his book. " How to Take the Baths and Drinking Waters at Rotorua and Te Aroha."

A rather amusing incident occurred not 20 miles from Orepuki. A poundkeeper was driving some cattle to the pound, .a. certain farmer came up and gave him a Jiand to pound them. Upon examination the fanner found to his own disgust and expense that he had driven in three of his own cattle. Possession of the cattle was given to him upon payment of the usual fees.