NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12317, 8 July 1903, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

1 Herald Summary. • ,/ , Westralia left for Sydney. 'Frisco mail leaves Friday. .; Zealanaia left for the South. . The Taviuni is due from the Eastern Paci- . fic to-morrow. , , , _ / Bullion valued at £9700 was sent to London, via Sydney, yesterday. - The heavy rain on Sunday last brought down over 4000 logs. of timber at Mercury '■•• -gay - '-■ ;'••'.: ,; - ■ ■ The West- Australian Government intend placing a veterinary surgeon in charge of the Stock Department- , The steamer Afric. on hei last tap from Melbourne, ' took '> away 14,500 crates of frozen rabbits for London. * Tho Marlborough Chamber of Commerce has decided to approach the Union Company with a view of obtaining a through freight on goods from Wellington to Seddon. ' The Western Star, Riverton, is informed that' although the season has been a late . one, the crop returns in -he Opio and Drummond districts are over 70 bushels to the Mr Philp, the Premier of Queensland, Mr Philp, the Premier of Queensland, - considers that for the present the Federal High Court might very well consist of the Chief Justices of each State in the Commonwealth. ■': ' ' .-, : . , There is an agitation now being carried on in New South Wales for legislation to prevent the branding of stock by fire on the best parts of,the hide, and thus decreasing their -market value.' The Minister for Public Workr has informed the residents' of Blackball, West Coast, that he cannot see his way to alter the proposed railway station site t as requested, nearer to the township. Recently Louis*Deleris, a Frenchman, and » recent arrival from Melbourne, was found dead in bed in Adelaide. Deceased had been under tho treatment of several doctors in Melbourne for heart disease. A committee of the Wanganui Borough Council is at present engaged in acquiring information as to the practicability, utility, tost; and generally the desirability of instituting a motor 'bus service for Wanganui and suburbs. ' , Hn i A • Mr. Clement Wraggo predicts that 1904, 1905, 1906, and 1907 will be good, years m New South Wales , and. Queensland ; but af- . ter that he predicts a tapering off until lyll, • .wneii there ; will be a three years' drought, ■'"-. . ending: in 1913. - A resident of East Eyreton, Canterbury, had the misfortune to lose a thoroughbred ; Clydesdale mare the other day. The mare, which had been particularly healthy, dropped dead while at work, death being caused 'by bots. She was. valued-at £100. ...■•:• In the Defence Bill,, framed by Sir John Forrest; no provision : has; been made for citizen "soldiers of? the Commonwealth servoutside Australia. ' .They may volunteer if they choose, but there will be nothing in the law to compel'them to serve abroad. Store stock of all classes are in the keenest demand in Victoria, the northern buyers particularly being anxious to secure good : lots of either sheep or cattle. There are numbers of eager' applicants for the. Crown leases, now thrown open for . selection. _ A bottle, which,, according to the written message : found enclosed therein, was dropped into the sea from : the steamer : Tambo- when passing Twofold Bay, New [South.Wales, on October 30 last, was picked up by Mr. Boyd Davidson at Cape Howe " .on June 18. One of the 'speakers at a public meeting •at Nelson last week referred to the increas- ;'-, ing -difficulty of,' obtaining vessels for the ; Nelson port direct. Increased inland.com- : munication would tend to remove the dan- : ger •; impending.. in this direction and ; help keep up the port. .•■.': The Winton Record says that the top price v paid in Invercargill this season for bats was ; la B|d, given '% Messrs. Henderson and - Batger, to Mr. Wm. 1 Cox, for a line of 500 sacks on trucks at Harrington's. It is only right to say that the sacks contained a prime 7 sample. of the Hamilton milling oats. ■ A project for the compulsory Tesumptidll' of large estates, suitable rfor : }. closer,-settle-; , ment, is now mooted in' South Wales.: The Pastoralists' Review 1 contends that owners of large properties are now doing so much, to cut up their estates;that there is .> no need for any compulsory* resumption. The long-promised and badly-wanted footwarmers for the railway carriages will shortly be introduced on the Westland : railway sys- : tem. The Department are now building the necessary furnaces at Greymouth, Reefton,, and Otira, and all being wail, the installation should be effected in a fortnight.