NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12147, 18 December 1902, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

-Mora a from the South to-day . Manaponri left for the Islands. Whooping cough and measles are prevalent in Masterton just now. ; The Carterton bakers have, raised the „rice of bread to 4d the 21b loaf. _ P "Se profits from the Wellington City tramways last- month amounted to £121. ; ■-■,-. Thlrovalty for flaxcutting now ruling Ik the Manawatu district is 4s per ton. 3 An industry new to Greymouth has just ■ been started:there, in the hap« of a steel "^J?'estate* of 35 deceased persons were •placed in the hands of the Public Trustee for management during November. _ Taking a lesson from the experiences of , last winter, formers in the *owr* dis- j trict, New South Wales,, are making large 5 quantities of hay. * - . . - At Grange, South Australia, a Mrs. Steel ■went to sleep on the ■ steps of a rowing :' *hed, and- fell' into the water and was 'drowned. • ; „ ■ At Sydney the. other night, Edward Sawtell, a young man, living in Darlinghurst, was fatally injured at a shooting gallery by the explosion of a rille. _ •' The council of the Chamber of Mines of Victoria has decided to support the London institution in the question of defining the term "ore in sight." ''■• The Wellington Education Board has decided that in future no members of its office, staff are to act as deputy-returning .officers or iii any other capacity at elections. . „.''■»- Haivesting on the Hunter River, !New South Wales, was generally finished before the heavy rains, and the crops are reckoned to be the most satisfactory for several 'lyears. . " • During the week ending on Saturday, the ."Wellington "Health Department states there were notified 17 cases of measles, 17 of . scarlet* fever, one of diphtheria-, ; and two -of tuberculosis. At Pictoh, New South Wales, Mrs. Cooke, Mrs. Tomkins, and a man named Buckley were struck by lightning and .■slightly injured, while looking at the damage which had been done to a chimney by ; a previous flash. ; A man named Kelsev was drowned in the River Torrens, Adelaide. He was a , patient at the ' North Adelaide Hospital, 'but eluded his watchers. His clothes were ifound on the bank of the river, which was idragged and the body found. At the inIqnesb a. verdict of accidental death while 'bathing was returned. ' : ■ There is such heavy mortality among cattle in the Gundagai district, New South Wales, that stockowners are becoming \ greatly alarmed. The deaths are ascribed '.by the stock inspector to congestion of the ,liver. Many cattle owners believe it is '; Vaused by a poisonous thistle, while others ' "believe it is "blackleg.". The Brisbane police have received a reimport from Ingham, in the Herbert district, H. that a young Italian who was working on ; J Macknade plantation had been accidentally shot dead by his brother. The victim *was j in an adjacent room to the one in which his brother was firing, and the shot ; penetrated the partition. .a. The bot-fly is attacking many of the horses in the Liverpool district, New South ;Wales, causing them to become almost un- • controllable. The fly deposits its eggs under the horses' jaws, and it is difficult to remove them when discovered. Several owners have applied kerosene to them with some measure of success. ' During the past fortnight two attempts have been made to burglariously enter the office of Mr. J. Ward, registrar, at Ashburton (says the Lyttelton Times). The -second attempt proved successful, but though some papers : were tampered,' with, nothing appears to have/been taken away. ; The matter is in the hands of the police. At Brisbane, a girl of ; 18 pleaded guilty to bigamy a day ,or two ago. She had 5; married twice inside 12. months; the first husband went- away to look for work, and [when he had been away for eight months she grew tired 'of waiting, ',' and married again. J, It was done with little or no concealment, and her only plea was that she didn't know there was any harm, in it.