NEWS IN BRIEF,

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12000, 24 June 1902, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF,

Sraz mail armed. * Zealandia left for Sydney. Elingamite for the South to-day. The Herald Summary will be published ©n Thursday. ;.. ',:■-■- The mail steamer Ventura left Sydney for Auckland yesterday. ' ' * A typhoid epidemic has broken out at. . Deniliquin, New South Wales. Five more whales have been captured by the whalemen at Whangamumu. The fund for the erection of a monument to Robert Burns in Melbourne 2 amounts to £848. On June 15, Allan Mclnnes was killed by » fall from his horse, at Yarra, New South .Wales. , . , . Of 36 drill instructors connected with the military forces of Victoria, six have been retired. _ . In South Australia it is proposed that all civil servants shall resign when they reach 70 years of age. , The yield of gold in Victoria for May, was 66,1500z, or 56720z more than during May of last year. A boy named John Cox, aged four, bled to death at BaJlarafc from an injury caused bv falling on a nail. "The United States Commissioners have fiven the Tasmanian Fisheries Board ,500.000 quinnat salmon ova. The Rev. Matthew Walker, of Lucknow, New South Waies, has been committed for trial at Orange on a charge of perjury. Pheasants are very scarce this season in the Bay of Plenty, but large numbers of pigeons are reported to have been shot. As a first measure of civil service reform the Premier's and Colonial Secretary's Departments (West Australia) have been combined. A young man namel George H. I horn was cut to pieces on the railway line near Kalgoorlie, West Australia, late the other night. While playing in a football match at Brisbane on Saturday Meek. Stewart Nichol received injuries from which he died soon afterwards. The Napier Old Men's Refuge is this winter taxed to its utmost capacity, there being 64 inmates at the present time. There are Bo beds now available. On June 15, Mr. J. B. Beauchamp, of Warwick, Queensland, had his head shattered by a ball from a Martini-Enfield rifle while examining the weapon. A child of Mr. F. Morton, of Grafton, New South Wales, was so severely burned through its nightdress catching tire from a candle, that it died in the hospital. The South Sea Islanders resident in Queensland have, through the Governor, petitioned the King, protesting against their forcible deportation from that colony. Nelson College Governors recently spent £2500 in enlarging the Boys' College buildings. The sum of £500 is being expended in fitting up a physical laboratory in the boys' institution. The following is the state of His Majesty's prison, Auckland, for the week ending Saturday, June 21, 1902 : —On remand, four males; awaiting trial, nine males, one female; sentenced to penal servitude for life, fcwoa males; sentenced to hard labour, 143 males, eight females; sentenced to imprisonment, two males; received during the week, seven males ; discharged, 13 males, four females: total in prison,, 160 males, nine females.