NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11955, 2 May 1902, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

■ $& AkkV' airived from the South. Toncariro left for London, via the South. H.M.s.. Lizard left for Sydney dayDeer are becoming numerous at the Makaroru, head of Lake Wanaka. A wire is being erected for the connection of Greymouth and Hokitika by telephone. It is rumoured that a civil case involving a large sum of monejr will shortly be heard in Wanganui. A butcher at St. Peters, Sydney, was fined 40s and costs for exposing for sale two carcases oi veal unfit for human food. The first contingent of settlers ior the •New Hebrides, 30 in number, are to leave Sydney by the steamer Mambare on June A party of workmen left Wellington by the Tutanekai last Friday to erect the lighthouse at Kiourangi Point, north ot .Westport. The Wanganui Borough Council has been recommended to purchase a steam fireengine and telescope ladder, at a cost not exceeding £1000. No less than 51 informations against parents for failing to send theii children to school were heard at the Wanganui Police Court the other morning. Recently David Hoean, a youth employed at Brown's Duckenfield Colliery, Miami, New South Wales, was run over by a waggon at the pit and killed. At the Newcastle Police Court, Captain Williams, of the barque Port Stanley, was fined £5 for not having the ship's hawsers tarred while alongside the wharf. . The Mount Ida Chronicle (Naseby) hears that a horse fiend exists in Hyde. Mr. It. W. Trotter has had two draught horses shot within the last three months. Upwards of 50,000 acres of land have been taken up within the land district of Gosford, New South Wales, during a recent fortnight, for pasturing .starving stock from the north. , Bullocks were sold at Melbourne a fortnight ago up to £20 per head, a pen of eight averaging £17. These prices are said to be the hi". test recorded for the summer months. At a meeting of the Taranaki Law Society, held the other evening, it was reported that there were 49 legal practitioners in Taranaki, of whom New Plymouth has 20. At Port Adelaide, on April 2.1, £150 •tvas awarded to Mary Ann Kohler, Wiiose husband was killed by an accident on the German-Australian Steamship Company's Steamer Apolda on January 18. No less than 400 trucks have been engaged at Gundagai. New South Wales, to convey starving stock from the mountain country to I'iverina, where most of them will require to be artificially fed. . The reports from some 1700 inland stations in New South Wales, for January of this year, show that there has teen absolutely no rain beyond Orange in the west, and Deniliquin in the south. The world's fair, recently held in the Exhibition Building, Melbourne, in aid of the building fund of the Convent of the Good Shepherd at Abbotsford, realised £15,354, of which £12,185 was net profit. At Melbourne an old man named Wm. Mawson was fined £5. when applying for an old age pension, for falsely swearing that his wife was dead, whereas it was found that, she was alive and in comfortable circumstances. The Clutha Leader makes the statement, on " high political authority," that it is the intention of the temperance party to nominate their official secretary for all constituencies where there would "otherwise be a walk over at, the general election. Frosts have already set- in in the Yass district, New South "Wales, and the outlook for the winter is very serious. Squatters have to buy feed for their stock at high prices, and even if rain came now the frost would prevent the grass from growing. Some 50 Chinamen who, on account of age and sickness, had for years been a charge upon the Ballarat Benevolent Asylum, Victoria, have just been sent back to China, the cost being met by a gift of £ICO from the Government, added to by the citizens. At Wollongong, New South * Wales, while a lad named Hickev was sitting driving on the top of a load of wood, the wheals of the cart dropped suddenly into a deep nit. upsetting the vehicle and causing the load of wood to fall upon him. Killing him instantly.