NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12328, 21 July 1903, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Zkalaxdu. left for Sydney. Westralia arrived from Sydney. Mimiro due from London and Australia t °Se l Delphic is due from London and Capetown, on Satrosday.. . ; ■ •nv.w,.* Arrangements are being made at Hobart to celebrate the centenary of Tasmania on S f ?sS£tldrilat the probable wool clip . •in Queensland this season will be about }i • 30\000,0001b, which is 1,000,0001b more than the clip of last year. ..: . . , Q _ ■■.. * A miner named James aged 39 years, , • was instantaneously killed m the WaHsend ' Company's C" pit, Newcastle, J\ew South •Wales by a fall of earth. '. A roan named Francis Grieve was run over *"and killed bv a goods train, near fcuoiaco, West Australia. 'The deceased was 31 years of age, and a native of Morrison's Victoria. ' The Fremantle City Council has approached the State Premier Mr. James, { with a request for a Bill to enable Fremantle to increase its borrowing powers, so as to em- ;/ -bark on a scheme of municipal tramways "~ A Pambula, New South Wales, recently, a large tree was felled which was 230 ft in : height, with a straight barrel 90ft long to tihfi first limb. It was 9ft m diameter at i..\. . the butt and is estimated to contain 06,000 superficial feet of timber. The Tasmania* Parliament will not meet for the despatch of business until August 21 The delar has arisen through the smallpox outbreak's* Launceston, forcing unexpected duties on the Chief Secretary, and thus delaying the ordinary Departmental While playing at Junee Reefs, New South Wales three young children found a dynamite cap, and'threw it into the fire. There was a* immediate explosion, and the little ones had a miraculous escape from death. J One was seriously injured." and the other two r more or less bruised. , • ■ At a meeting in favour of State compul- - sorv arbitration, held at the Town Hall, 1 Melbourne, Senator Pearce, Mr. Hughes, MLP., and;a number of prominent trades ■unionists, were among the speakers. The New South Wales Act was referred to. and ii strong demand was made for a similar BUI in Victoria. A young man named Johnson was shootin"- in the bush near Windsor, New South Wales, when his gun went off accidentally, the charge shattering his right foot. His brother, who was with him, carried him about three miles before he got a cart to con- ■ - - vey him to a doctor. It was found necessary to amputate the leg. . The president of the New South Wales Alliance, Canon Boyce, expresses the opinion that the women's vote at the next Parliamentary election will be in the direction of . doing awav with the drink traffic.-. Canon Boyce states that the platform of the Alliance for the next Parliamentary election will be full local option without compensation. A sad case was reported by the Balmain (Svdney) police. The circumstances show that at*about noon Mrs. Young, who lives at No. 5. Batty-street, in that suburb, was engaged bathing-a five months' old male infant, when she was seized with an epileptic fit. When she recovered consciousness she discovered that her baby ha.l been drowned in , the bath. - A m-ious railway accident is reported from Taralgou, Victoria, where two loaded . and four empty trucks got away from the station yard and came into collision with an incoming train. The tracks were derailed. Driver Gavin, of the incoming train, was severely shaken by the collision, and Fireman Raphael was thrown down and received a severe (ait on the head. • A comparison of the export of the principal products from Victoria during June of this year and the previous June is very much in favour of las* mouth.* The biggest increases were: Frozen rabbits, 629.925: preserved j meat.--. 165,1441b; presetved rabbits, 2150 cases; mutton/4646 carcases; and lamb, 806 carcases. While 115,2801b of jam. were ; . exported in June, 1902, the export for last month was nil. What appears to be a 'systematic plan of stealing grain in bulk has'beea detected by , a constablo on duty at Prince's Wharf, Mel- ' bourne. He saw "a spring-cart without a light near Fryer's store, and investigating, ; he found three men who had broken open the ' door taking away a bag of barley stored there. They bolted, but the horse and cart ;•, ; .were captured- Other grain stores in the - city have, recently been similarly robbed. The following l« the state of His Majesty's prison, Auckland, for the week ending Satur- - day. July 18,1903: —On remand, two males; -awaiting trial, three males, one female;

, sentenced to •; penal servitude ? for life, ivri ;> ;^- males; sentenced to hard labour, 158 males, 11 females; sentenced to imprisonment, one 'female; default of bail, two males; received during the ireelv, 19 males; discharged, 56 males, three 'females: total in prison, 167 males, 13 females. •