NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12268, 12 May 1903, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

'SkisCO mail arrived. - Sierra left for Sydney. Westralia left for Sydney Zealandia for the South this afternoon. Threshing is not yet over m North Can

Kumara is due from London on tie 21st inst. The Sierra made a record passage from San Francisco to Auckland. ... Mill-hands are scarce at the present time ia the neighbourhood of Riverton. Roughly, 30 miles of sewers have to be provided yet in the area of Greater Christ church.

During nine years the Sydney Hospital Saturday collections have gathered in 333,978. j<> , . No less than 113 new seedling dahlias lave been raised in the Rotorua Sanato■inm grounds this year. Daring last year the number of cattledaughtered at the Invercargill abattoirs if as 2833, of which 28 were condemned. Sportsmen who have visited the Alaliatratn since the opening of the season report native game to be somewhat scarce in ,he district. , An aboriginal woman, 104 years of age, nother of three children and grandmother ,f 52, has just died at Bara Crossing, in ;he Tamworth district, New South Wales. A ten-year-old daughter of Mr. Frederick Dearden, grazier, of Steinbrook, New South Wales, while trying to catch a horse received so serious b. kick that) she died on the following day. The steam trawler Pania landed an excellent haul at Wellington on Wednesday last of' 1200 whario and 600 soles and flounders. Amongst the catch was a huge, skate weighing a hundredweight and a-half. The Inglewood Record says:—The steam gauge of the engine working Mr. James' Threshing plant broke just as Mr. A. Matthews, of Wanganui, was looking at it. His left eve was severely injured, and it is feared he will lose the sight of itWhile excavating in the Rotorua Sana- ; torium grounds one of the workmen found, it a depth of 3ft below the surface, a beru tuki, or comb, used by the ancient Maori to hold together the topknot which was fashionable in the days long, long 120. supplier of milk to the South CanterA supplier of milk to the South Canterbury Dairy Company netted £95 Os 8d for "12 months' milk of nine cows, besides which he reared on the returned skim milk calves which sold for a total of £17 3s, and pigs £8 Bs. and from his Sunday milk kept his house in butter. A big timber boom (says the Southland Times) Is expected to take place along the South Westland railroad when completed. The line is expected to be open for traffic in May next year. It is astonishing how some railways in New Zealand can be pushed on. The first sod of this one was turned only the other day. The following is the state of His Majesty's prison, Auckland, for the week ending Saturday, May 9:On remand, 5 males, one female; sentenced to penal seriritude for life, 3 males; sentenced to hard labour, 175 males, 15 females; sentenced to imprisonment, 1 male, 1 female; default of bail, 1 male; received during the week, 16 males, 4 females; discharged, 15 males, 3 females: total in prison, 185 males, 17 females. A young man named Bolton, working at Eekford's, Terala, New South Wales, stooped to clear away some rubbish, when a, isnake bit Mm on one of his fingers. He shook off the reptile, and got Mr. Eckforl to chop his finger off with an axe. A ligature was put round the finger, and Bolton rode 20 miles to Moree, where Dr. Tomlinson amputated the finger at the joint. Bolton then rode back to Terala. A timber-cutter named Robert hime, who lived alone in a tent some distance from Williamstown, South Australia, was recently admitted to Adelaide Hospital for treatment of terrible injuries., During a storm a tree was blown down upon his tent, and pinned him to the ground. He sustained a fractured thigh and shoulder. His cries for help were unheard, and he was only discovered three days afterwards, greatly exhausted and in acute pain.