NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11953, 30 April 1902, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

'Frisco mail arrived. < Sierra 'eft. for Sydney. * Mauapouvi due from the Islands. Elingamite for the South this morning. t\ A vacant house lis at present, unknown in Gore, Otago. ; , > : On April 20 there were 20 cases of typhoid fever in ' Prince Alfred Hospital, Newcastle firm bought 4000 bags of A Newcastle firm bought 4000 bags of maize from farmers at Furracabad, New South Wales, at £1 per bag. Owing to the unsatisfactory state of the 'finances, it is proposed by the Queensland Government to reduce the salaries of Civil servants. ■■'.*'.'■ The general roll for the electoral district of the City of Christchurch, whioh has now been, issued, shows that 11,093 electors are enrolled. . . ,J During the simultaneous mission at Kensington, Flemington, and Newmarket, Victoria, a number of racing men and jockeys are stated to have professed conversion. In consequence of strained "relations in regard to church matters, one or two of the officers of the Kaiapoi Presbyterian Church have tendered their resignations. A young miner named John Prowse received fatal injuries at the Great Boulder mine, Kalgoorlie, by being struck by a descending cage, the hook of which had broken. * At Wee Waa, New South Wales, the railway - vrks have had to be stopped, and r .ave been paid off owing to the inability of carriers to furnish the necesj sary supplies. '> On account of the bad weather, the farmers of Table Hill and Circle Hill district will suffer (says the Bruce Herald) a reduction in the values of their grain of at least 30 to 40 per cent. While a boy named Carroll was handling ' a Winchester rifle at Caledonia station, New South Wales, the weapon accidentally went off, and the .bullst passed through his head, killing him instantly. The Chitha'-Leader understands that Mr. Clark, of Geraldine, is erecting a large sawmilling plant at Tautuku, bis intention being to utilise the Tautuku River as a means of transit to the markets.

A South Taieri fanner recently threshed 1500 bags of oats and 400 bags of wheat— all out of the stook ; and* though the sample was a poor one, he sold the oats at from 2s 3d and wheat at 3s 6d.

On and after Thursday next, a bright light will be' exhibited from the flagstaff at Okarito, whenever a vessel is expected off the port at night time. The light will be at an elevation of 45fl above high water.

The Southern Standard states that the Pomahakii school has been closed for some time, despite the efforts of the committee. A '-;,} woman will not look at Pomahaka, while a man comes and puts a few days in, and then leaves disgusted. " When a man gets married do you suppose that it is his wife's business to go to work to support him? Not much," asserted an indignant wife, who was suing her husband for maintenance at the Magistrate's Court, Christchurch.

While ii young man named Edward Richtor was riding home from a ball at Koorong Vale, Victoria, bis horse swerved, and he was thrown so heavily that his skull was fractured, and he died soon after in Wedderbmy Hospital. ' A miner named Herbert Treasure was brought -to the Gulgong Hospital, New Soth Wales, from Yarable, suffering from an injury to his spine, caused by about three tons of dirt falling upon him 1 while he was working in a. drive'. In the Scone district, New South Wales, large numbers of stock have been kept alive on prickly pears, of which there are thousands of acres. Every carrier in the district has been busy carrying fodder to •tations around, especially westpawrd. An interesting aboriginal relic has been found at Taralga, New South Wales, in the form of a bronze plate bearing the inscription "Mulwaree Tommy. Chief of Gookmai." The plate is half-moon in shape, with the figure of a blackfellow with a boomerang in each hand, and bears, no date. The oldest resident in Goulburn distract; has no recollection of the chief «r his trible. (