NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11879, 3 February 1902, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Moura left for the South. Outward 'Frisco mail gone. 'Frisco mail due to-morrow. Elingamite from Sydney to-day. A Suez mail arrives from Sydney to-day. Elthain is applying for the establishment ot a District High School. •" Over 1000 yachtsmen and oarsmen took part in the display in the harbour on Saturday. The annual meeting of shareholders of the Auckland Gas Company will be held to-day, at noon. • The aquatic display in the harbour on Saturday was the feature of the farewell to the troopers. The Dunedin public subscribed £400 . for Trooper Beath, of the Fourth Contingent, who lost an arm in action. Some Masterton plumbers are being proceeded against for using inferior material to that provided for in the by-laws in connei tion with the borough water supply scheme. At Narrabri (New South Wales), a young woman named Mi's. Wilson, engaged as a cook at Turner's Hotel, Dangar's Village, dropped dead. Heat, apoplexy was the cause.

On January 21, a violent duststorm prevailed at Wentworth, the force of the wind causing alarm by violently shaking the houses. It was the worst day ever experienced at that town.

In the three years before the institution of old age pensions, the amount expended by the South Canterbury Hospital and Charitable Aid Board was £7563 10s ; in the same period since, £6280 4s 6d. The South Australian Government has decided to close down the smelters at Port Augusta owing to the slump in copper having compelled many of the mines which supplied them with ore to suspend operations. A young man named Oliver Newlove was taken to Wanganui Hospital on Monday, suffering from a fractured jaw, caused by a kick from a horse he was trying to catch in a paddock at Mr. Nisbet's slaughter yards, Hunterville. Twenty Italians who arrived at Perth, West Australia, recently, and are described as " ignorant and indigent," were allowed to land, there being nothing, it was alleged, under the Aliens Restriction Act to prevent them doing so. Twc miners and a trucker had a narrow escape from being crushed to death in Baker's Creek gold mine, Hillgrove, New South Wales, the other night, through a fall of earth. They only sustained a few cuts and bruises. At Warrnambool (Victoria) during a gale on January 22, many roofs were removed, while at Allansford the local Roman Catholic Church was lifted 2ft from its foundation. The deck of a steamer lying at Sale was lifted and deposited in the backyard of a cottage on shore. The committee in Timaru who are collecting funds for the erection of a memorial to fallen troopers from South Canterbury have now £200 in hand. It is proposed to erect an ; artistic monument costing about £500, and with the object of raising the balance of the necessary money a bazaar is to be held. A lad named Lester McGlynn was taken into Mittagong, New South Wales, last week, suffering from the effects of gunshot wounds in the wrist and thigh. It appears that he was out rabbit-shooting with his brother, and while rummaging at a burrow the gun accidentally went off, inflicting the injuries as stated. As some farmers in Hawke's Bay were rather loth to believe that they had the California!! thistle in their midst, the stock inspector at Hastings forwarded some specimens to Wellington for identification. The Government Biologist says it is absolutely beyond doubt that they are specimens of the California!! thistle.