news in brief.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12001, 25 June 1902, Page 6

news in brief.

ttg»A7ja Summary to-morrow. * ' 'Frisco mail leaves on Friday. ' E'ingamite left for the South. Manapouri due from the Islands. ? The Coronation fund for the relief of the poor at Adelaide amounts to £2223. It is stated that all species of trout in Masterton are early in spawning this season. * Small birds are reported to be very numerous in the Waikaka district this season. month 88,787 tons of coal were Last month 88/787 tons of coal were shipped from the southern collieries of New South Wales. It is stated that meat work. 1 ? are about to be established on the Victoria River, Northers Territory. Substantial reductions of salaries are anti- @ cipated as a result of the Parliamentary reform movement in Victoria. On June 15. Alexander Ritchie, an elderly man, fell into the harbour, near Circular Quay, Sydney, and was drowned. The Farmers' Union has at length got a footing in Westlaad province, where several branches are in coarse of formation. The Palmerston Time# understands that the output of the Allandale coal mine for the past two months constitutes a record, j An illicit still in full working order, has been discovered by the police at Cabbage Tree, Mitchell's Island, New South Wales. Many losses in stock have been reported in the Molong district, New South Wales, through animals eating phoaphorised pollard laid for rabbits. A Rangitikei settler lost 1000 sheep in the recent flood. He has also lost a considerable number of cattle, but the exact number is not known. After being closed for many years, the oli coal mine at Kaitangata has been reopened, and a considerable quantity of coal is now being got therefrom. A Chinese gardener, who crossed from Victoria without paving the poll tax, £100, was fined £50, and ordered to pay the tax, at the Central Police Court, Sydney. -- -The other day what is believed to bo a stranded salmon, weighing 121b, was found near the Omabu bridge, and on the Fern-rill side of the Ngaruroro River (Hawke's B?y). • The remains of a man have been found at Three Corners, New South Wales. It is thought that the man was the owner of the swag found in the vicinity two years ago. A member of a Queensland corps of Bushmen, who happens to be in Dunedin just now, drew £1100 last week in one of Tattersall's sweeps, according to the New Zealand Times.

At the Magistrate's Court, Roxburgh, last week. Wm. Gray and M. Roughan were fined £2 each and costs, for feeding pigs on unboiled offal—a breach of the Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1900. A returned soldier knocked at his father's door at Quirindi, New South Wales, expecting to give him a pleasant surprise. He then learned that his father had died the previous day from heart disease. Coronation Day promises to be a popular occasion for the celebration of marriages. In South Wellington one clergyman will be very busy, for his services haTe already. been engaged for three marriage ceremonies. There is a good demand for turnips for eating off with cattle in Clutha district, and good prices are being realised—as high as £8 an acre in some cases ; £5 and £6 an •ere for a good average crop is readily given. .During the recent floods in Wanganui, the water main, which is carried across the Pitzherbert bridge, snapped, and the reservoir soon emptied itself, cutting off the supply altogether. A similar incident happened on a previous occasion. ; » A correspondent of the Otago Daily Times wants to know how the Sydney millers can supply flour at, from £8 10s to £9 10s per ton, with wheat at 4s 3d per bushel, while in Dunedin, with wheat at the same price, flour cannot be bought under £1110s. In Sdvocating the reservation of a public park on Stewart Island, to the ActingPremier, Mr. I. W. Raymond urged that it should be constituted an asylum for our fastdiminishing wild fowl, where they should have complete immunity from the gun of the sportsman. . The Canterbury Frozen Meat Company has - lost four directors (including three chairmen) by death, during the past 12 months. - These were (says the Lyttelton Times) Messrs. John Grigg, "6. Garforth, W. Chiystall, and John Deans, the last-named dying last Thursday morning. :. The short piece of cable recently laid to Stewart Island, weighs six tons to the mile, whilst the Pacific cable weighs only 30cwt to the mile. The reason for the extra strength in the Stewart Island connection is that a cable is required to be considerably gtouter when it is in comparatively shallow waters. _____________