NEW IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12210, 4 March 1903, Page 6

NEW IN BRIEF.

'Herald Summary to-morrow.. ;... 'Frisco, mail leaves Friday. Westralia left for the South. 'A Suez mail arrives on Friday. _ The regatta of the warships "will he held to-day and-to-morrow. A crop of barley grewa at Kuratawhiti, Greytowx, this season, yielded 84 bushels to 1/lib -acre. . '' , . A hopeful Oamaru" citizen, says that some of the ©at crops in Waihao district look .as if. they would yield 150 bushels to 'i the acre. * •' For selling liquor without a license, Joseph ■Daniels, an oyster saloon-keeper, at Sydney, •was fined £100. This was his second conviction.' ;• - / . • i f -* "J-* '• „ ' The typhoid patients at Molong, New South Wales, are all recovering, and there are no indications of a further spread of the

epidemic. - ' .• W " At a recent large native tangi, held at Normanby, . Taranaki, . one notable feature was the absence of liquor in any large quantity at the gathering. It was stated in the Victorian Legislative Assembly that out of 544 locomotives owned by the local Railway Department, only 354 were in running order. John Black, contractor, of Auckland, has been adjudicated a bankrupt on a creditor's petition. -The first meeting of creditors will be held on Monday next. • A married woman has been committed for trial at Launceston, Tasmania, on a charge of manslaughter. She is alleged to have conducted a baby farming business. The Registrar-General of Queensland estimates the population of the State at the end of last year at 514,851 —an increase of 4336 as compared with the previous year. A syndicate in Queensland has proposed to lease the Cooktown. railway line, to work ■the passenger traffic with motor-cars, establishing a bi-weekly service with Laura.. According to the Wairarapa Observer, a farmer in the Waingawa Gully, Mr. J. Creelman, has secured from a crop of nine acres an average of 94 bushels to the acre. There must be a fair number of shorthand clerks and typists in the colony. Thirtyeight applied for a position on the staff of the North Canterbury Education Board. The Governor of New South Wales recently opened a consumptive sanatorium at King's Tableland, Wentworth Falls, where tuberculosis will be treated by modern methods. .' The Queensland Minister for Public Instruction states that the half-caste children attending schools in Queensland are not so ■ numerous as those in the school of the Sou- ' thern States. . . : : Owing to the continuance of the typhoid epidemic at CoonamMe, New South Wales, sheep stalls at the local showground are being converted into hospital, wards, and the nurses are sleeping in horse stalls. The proposed infectious, disease hospital, which is' contemplated for Masterton, is to consist of two wards, and is a modified plan of the building, specially recommended by the Local Governing Board of England. , A number of cyclists were fined in Christchurch on Friday for furious riding, and the magistrate took occasion to strongly condemn the selfishness which cares not a rap for the safety of others who use the public thoroughfares. . A serious accident befel the little daughter of Mr. T. F. Wilson, of Stratford, temporarily residing in Taihape. The child fell 60ft down a hotel fire escape, fracturing her collarbone in two places, and sustaining concussion of the brain. , It is estimated (says the' Bruce Herald), that the grain crops this season in Bruce County will average as follows :-kOats, 35 bushels per acre; wheat, 30 bushels; and barley, 25 bushels. Owing to the lateness ' of the season, the above is only an approximate estimate''of what the yield will be later on.