NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12066, 9 September 1902, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

• ~. ——•- Maßauoa left for Sydney. Titania arrived from New York. Waikare for the South this afternoon. Oralau arrived from the Eastern Pacific. Tomoana due from London and Australia to-morrow. The Wellington City Council has decided not to pay for more rats. ji'During the last 12 months 11 old age pensioners died in Lismore, New South Wales. The Victorian Government has paid £5.765.063 in pensions, gratuities, etc., ■ince 1851. A fettler named David John Dunning *as run over and killed by a train between Awaba and Dora Creek, New South Wales. A miner named James Johnson has been killed at the Comet claim, Trentbam, South Australia, by (he premature explosion of a charge. The steamer Kilburn shipped 1600 heifers at Wyndham, West Australia, for South Africa, the first consignment of the kind from West Australia. It is reported from Melbourne that a young unmarried woman gave birth to a child, arid plated it in a. grate and burnt it so severely that it died. A storekeeper at Cumnock is sending horse teams to Sydney to bring up merchandise, on the ground that it will be cheaper than getting it by railway. A hospital patient at Castlernnine, Victoria, Robert Williams, 46. dived through the bathroom window, and, falling on the stone pavement, 40ft below, was killed instantly. Las'- week Thomas Quinn, a well-known •farmer of Tarawingee, Victoria, was killed near Wangaratta, through being run over by a train while crossing the line on horseback. The number of passengers carried on the Sydney tramways for the year ended June 30, 1902, amounted to 108,155,111, as compared with 93.703,685 in the pre- i ceding year. Sheep fanners at Greytown state that . the season has been a favourable one for \ sheep, and the losses during ihe lambing i period have been very slight compared with last year. The two-year-old daughter of Mr. J. J. Robins, of Quoin, South Australia, pulled » tub of boiling water over herself while her mother was engaged washing, and »he was so dreadfully scalded that she died a. few hours after. The water of the hot spring*, at Manila, in the Inangahua County, is now being analysed by instructions of the Government, and it is intended to place £200 on the Public' Works Estimates lot improvements at the springs. Whilst crossing the railway line at Johnsonville. Mis. Mudgway, of the Lower Hint, had her dress caught on the cow- • catcher of an engine, and liev left hand and Jeg badly bruised. She was. taken to the .Wellington Hospital for treatment. At a conference of school boards of adrice, held in Melbourne, a motion was .carried to the effect that religious instruction should form part of the ordinary lessons in State schools, given by accredited teachers of various denominations. While engaged grubbing trees near f'ooradigabee, New South Wale*, a young man found an almost perfect human skele- j ton in the hollow of a tree he had felled. It is believed to be that of an aboriginal, and appeals to have been there for many : years. _ " j A case of stock dying from absorption . of lead in the liver and kidney tissues, ! through the animal licking red [taint from < a newly-painted house, has rome under ; the notice of the Agricultural Department. I The linseed oil used in the paint was the i lure which brought the cows to grief. , In the eastern fanning districts of West j Australia, in the vicinity of York and : Xortham, the driest August on record is . reported, and the late-sown crops are abso- . lutely ruined, and if rain does not come j soon the late-sown, crops will also be. I lost. Fanners are getting quit of their stock, as chaff is quoted at £7 a ion on the trucks at Xortham. In the Makotuku district. Daunevirke. a j number of fanners are having a good deal j of ploughing done for growing fodder for the winter. Thin (says a contemporary) is the result of the price paid for butterfat, lid per lb. during the winter months by the Norsewood Co-operative Dairy Company. In. order to cope with the increased supply during the forthcoming season, the company intends installing a larger separator. j The following was the state of His Majesty's prison. Auckland, for 'lie week ending Saturday last:—On remand, 3 mades: awaiting trial, 5 males; sentenced to penal .servitude for life, 3 males; sentenced to hard labour. 162 males, 11 females: sentenced to imprisonment. 1 male; default of bail. 4 males: received during the week. 12 males. 1 female: discharged. 14 males, 2 females : total in prison, 178 males, 11 females.