NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12303, 22 June 1903, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

• 'Frisco mail arrived. ' Tftlune left for tie South. ■ Zealand!* for Sydney this evening. The Manapouri is due from the Islands on Thursday. „ . , , '"■ The new firebell at Dannevirke can be heard 3* Miles from town. Another attempt is to be made by the Australian Workers' Union to cancel the Machine Shearers' Union. Four brood mares belonging to Captain Claude Smith, of Nandillyaa stud, Molong, New South Wales, have died mysteriously.. Foxes are on the increase in the Gunda'eai district, New South Wales. About 60 have recently been destroyed in the Kino Hills. . . A Business Men's Association has been formed in Westport. Its main objects are to regulate holidays and control the credit system. The three horticultural societies of Canterburythe Rose, Chrysanthemum, and Horticultural Societies— likely to amalgamate. There are now 22 typhoid fever patients in the Gunnedah Hospital, New South Wales, the majority having come from the Uoggabri district. According to the Eltham Argus a capitalist is prepared to establish a gasworks in Eltham, giving the borough the option of purchase in 12 years. Owing to the nuisance caused by pigs straying on the roads, the Eketahuna County Council has instructed its ranger to shoot pigs down at sight. What is believed to be copper ore has been discovered in the Ruahine Ranges, and samples have been sent to the Government Analyst for examination. The Christchurch City Council has decided that all meat slaughtered for consumption in the Christchurch district must pass through the municipal abattoirs. In the course of a political address at Townsville, Mr. Phiip, the Queensland Premier, said that at the nest election he would do all in his power to oppose the * Federal Ministry. During the recent gale at Coraki, New Sonth Wales, a terrific report was heard, and a large fireball was seen to fall towards the west end of the town, lighting up everything for miles. The Austral Freezing Works, Limited, are closing their works in New South Wales down absolutely till stock become j more plentiful, and the price more in ac-| cordance with export values. { A Malayan seaman named Ismail was j fined £50, m default two months' impri-; sonment, at the Water Police Court, Syd- : ney, on a charge of smuggling a quantity j of opium from the steamer Australian. At the meeting of the Town Council, Invercargill. held last week, it was decided to increase the amount of the fee for hotel licenses, to make good the loss sustained through the reduction in ths number of hotels. - The present season is regarded as the most prosperous one experienced in the Divngog district, New South Wales, for many years. Grass and water are abundant, and farmers have no fears regarding the winter. At a recent meeting of the Royal Geographical Society in Adelaide, attention ■was called to the defacement of monuments erected to explorers, and regret expressed I of the want of reverence for these memo- j rials of great men. •