NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12523, 16 March 1904, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Seraid Summary. 'Frisco mail leaves Friday. -. - The mail steamer. Oroya took away from . Melbourne recently 26,577 cases of apples for London. ; ' A nugget of gold, weighing 250z, has been found at Peter's. Busk* near Rockhamptoir, Queensland. The South Australian Government have decided to take the. necessary action to purchase the Adelaide tramways. ' < A Melbourne pawnbroker's shop was broken into the other night, and £400 worth of jewellery stolen. The Sydney City Council recently placed an order for two million paving blocks, to ' : be used in the public streets. ; ; Clouds of grasshoppers have been seen passing over Broken Hill travelling from the northward in a south-westerly direction. The population of South Australia at the end of February was 232,527, an increase over the corresponding month of last year * . of 15,000. '- ; - - -«.--- ■-. ■ The Sydney City Council is seeking the co-operation 01 the various suburban Coun- :'■..- cils in relation to 'the Greater Sydney question. "*" "Vw.:"'':-'

tion. :,:' — •• At Perth (West Australia) an aboriginal was given three years' imprisonment and 20 lashes for attempted assault on & married woman. , ' Fully half the miners in the Newcastle : district, New • South Wales, are out of emplovment owing. to. the depression in the coal trade. : ; , 1 The-wheat yield for the Wellington district, New South Wales, amounts to 1,141,322 -bushels, or an average of 25.15 . bushels per acre. > ; ;.;-'■;?.:..-■:■ - * •■ '-- : It is reported by an up-country paper that an illicit distillery is in full swing in a backblocks settlement,, not many hundred miles ■ from Eketahuna. - : '..-• "' ";•' ■■■_ . A great number of landowners in New South Wales:have -started"to lav "poison for ! rabbits,, with the result that the pest are dying in hundreds. "The West Australian goldfields water .sup-,. '.••■ ply administration-will distribute 5000 trees among residents of three mining towns dur- ' ing the planting season.: , '. .----5' During the month of February the Commonwealth letters of naturalisation, ■.. to 96 men and four women 72 being married 'people and 28 single. A large number of Queensland farmers have decided,to groW alternate crops of . maize and cotton. This, will be principally done in the Fassiferh district. : ; For the past fortnight there" have been 225 cases' of typhoid in Melbourne and 10 deaths," as against 138 cases and 14 deaths for the. period of last year. . -"'-. ' K The -employees of the Wellington City Corporation,, under a rule initiated by the 'new city engineer, are hot allowed to smoke during'working hours. '-_■'~ ' A syndicate has been formed at Dunedm to take- over the rights, of a local patent for , supplvihg boots and shoes with removable, reversible, and renewable heels and soles. It is estimated that by the end of the present month the Woodville Bacon Ciftnpa'ny will have put through fully a thousand pigs more than during the corresponding; • period last year. , •-. V W': : };^'- : ;/...;' :; ;;/-;:'' : ':; ; .; ;.;: y>;. ,■} ', .:;. v v ;.■ ,-.,,-. i ; ■ '.-■, .". '' /