NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11856, 7 January 1902, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

1 } l .Wakaka. flue from Fiji. . , jSffiP Tekoa <i«e from London. j§||| j§j Zealandiii left for Sydney. Elingamite for i the . South to-day. The Stock Exchange has opened for 'business after the holidays. Visitors to the'city from the South and elsewhere'are returning home. . * " Bullion • valued at , £2150 was sent to ' Sydney by the Zealandia, yesterday for trans-fffpment to London. . South Canterbury . farmers, recently complaining of the drought, are now experiencing too much moisture for the good of their crops. Timaru Gaol was without an occupant on Christmas- Day— first time since the gaol was built that there were empty cells on the day named. As showing the . benefits T; of Friendly Societies, it is mentioned that the Palmerston North Lodge of Druids recently paid as much as £100 to a family in which sickness and death occurred. We hare received cards conveying New Year greetings, from the literary staffs of the New Zealand Times and: New Zealand Mail, and from the literary and mechanical j Staff of the Taranaki Herald and Budget. j A State schoolgirl, Winifred Clements, aged 16 years, committed suicide at Parkas, j New South Wales, by drinking a quantity of water in which matches had been soaked. ;j She had a dread of being sent back to school. "" : The Premier of New South Wales in- j formed Dr. Ross in the Assembly a few days ago that if it was in his power to have persons punished who threw banana and orange skins on tba pavements, he: .would have it done. , The second foreign sailora Chilian named' John Garaz—who escaped " from the ship Machrihanish, and for whom the captain of the vessel was liable for a .tax of £100, was arrested at Maryborough re- . cently. He had been working at a Feather- ■ -ton flasmill. '• -1 '' . _ A terrific storm broke over Wolumla dis- / trict, New South Wales,; on December 22. The, wind blew with cyclonic. force, ..wrecking dairy sheds and barns and uprooting 5 trees in all directions; The roof over the ' * diningroom in a private residence cavcd ..V in through the chimney falling.. A Dunedin correspondent states that Ivy ' , Horwood, who has been present at the Arthur-street school every day it has been open during, the past nine years, was presented by the chairman of the School Com- . mittee with a j complete edition of 25 volumes of the works of Sir Walter Scott. Only £45 of the £375 required towards the Ashburton Borough i Council's share of • the new town clock has yet to be subscribed. The clock, which will cost £750, lias been' ordered by the Government, and is expected to be .in position in the post office tower in a few months. i It is to be a? chiming clock, and will chime the quarter-hours. From all appearances (says " Drover," in j 4he Otago Witness),we shall again have a v , large export of rabbits this season. Bunny is plentiful ' all over the country, for the wet weather has'been against summer poi- ' coning even among the enemies of the rabbits, and I am afraid that all over the i country bunny's' friends are more numerous than his enemies. .' Recently John Edward Doody committed - suicide by cutting his throat with a razor 70 miles' • from Charlesville," - Queensland, ■:. while suffering from thirst. yh He , and his mate had- a terrible experience, but the latter is likely to recover. He left a pathetic note, requesting that if four tickets lie had in a sweep won any money it should be given to his mother. From London the steamer Papanui, which arrived, at Wellington a «few •, days ago, brought to the colony a prize Lincoln ram, bred by Mr. R. Fisher, of Leconfield. Beverley, consigned to the New, Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company at Wellington. The vessel also brought a pedigree shorthorn bull, .: from the stock of Mr. W. Crosland, Busket Park, , Faringdon. " J consigned to Mr, A. A. Phantho'n, of Welling- ■ ton. : ■' ' The following ,is the statd of His Ma- ■ jesty's prison, Auckland, for the ..week end- ; ing . Saturday, January 4, 1902 : —On icmand, 9 males; "awaiting trial, 4 males, 2 females; sentenced'to penal servitude for life, ■ 2 males; sentenced to hard labour, • 161 males, :22 females; sentenced to im- '■ prisonment, 3 * males; received during the { • week, 13 males, 1 female; discharged, 13 , males, 2 'females:, total in prison,. 179 : males. 24 - females. ' % ■ ', A tin trunk belonging to a jewellery traveller slipped out of a slin? while beine put on : board the Takapuna at. r - New . Plymouth • the other night, end, dropping into) the sea, , sank out of . sight. The trunk was recovered by a diver next day, and when opened the contents were found to consist of several hundreds of ; gold and ' silver watches, . the value of ' which, according to the Taranaki Herald. " was estimated at between £2000 and £3000.