NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12698, 28 October 1904, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

&T-JE2 mail dua on Sunday. Navua arrived from Westport. - Wakanui from London to-day. 'J'alune arrived from the South. Rotokino due from the Eastern Pacific tomorrow. - , ■'~•:.;, -'~ • The- exports of Australian produce for " 1903 Were valued at £45,955. • Tile dividend tax, as a separate tax, is to be abolished in Queensland., , ■ •New South Wales pays.£3 5s 3d per head in Customs and excise taxation. The Government steamer Hinemoa returned from the Kermadecs last night. The prospects of the barley yield at Tainworth (N.S.W.) are particularly encouraginjr. -"-...;;'■' "';--''■-"' v" ' , During a recent fortnight 30,000 lambs were treated at ; the Government- depot at Adelaide for export. _ .■-"-• ■:;■ '. . The city engineer reported to the Uty Council last night that the total length of streets in 'the citv -was 55£ miles.. ;' A movement is on foot in labour circles ,in Victoria to boycott shopkeepers who aro not members of the various leagues. - In connection with bounty payments for ' white-grown sugar Queensland re-caved ■ £50,600 and New South Wales £40,200. 4 voting man, George Noble* hanged himself at Shepparton (Vic.) a few minutes after being accused of stealing. ; He was mentally . During a storm at Gundagai (N.S.W.) a Aid named Vanghan, while in bed, was struck by lightning and rendered unconscious.' -•-.*-;•"■::'.'■*.' ■:■■:'■' ' •'■•,' ', -'■;••. . For the past. 18 months the collieries in the Newcastle district (N.S.W.) have supplied 396,331 tons of coal for the Victorian The 18-months.old daughter of Thomas Bowney, of !Heatheoto (Vic.) was- lacked on the head by a horse. Death was mi stantaneous. : '-" •'" - _. Ah inmate of the Immigrants Home in Melbourne, Patrick ,Wm. Pennelly, jianged himself from a ; timber rack, after stabbing (himself in the neck. . . : A man fell over a elm at Bomade-rry WSW-), and after lying there a night mid a day was found in a bad state, with Ms injured head and.legs Ayhlwra. ■ ■There are' in the New South Wales public service 319 officers whose ages range Man: 60 to 82, and who draw salaries to the amount of £79,18*1 per annum. _ Recently Charles Castles, a miner, met ■with Ja- -torrMe death at Broken Hill. He Was! - knocked- donw by ~ an empty., truck, which practically- cut him in halves. • , ' For-this year it is expected that the Australian sugar production will be 149,600 tons, « within J&* - 40,000 tons so the Australian sugar requirement, 137,000 tons. Thieves entered a bedroom occupied by Tudce Rogers at the Royal Hotel, Denikstol* &b sunt of £2;m together with His Honor's overcoat and other. a sele«?'committee of the South AusThe select committee of the South Australian Legilative Council,* which was op-, pointed to inquire into the prevalence of Seating, is to pay a .visit to Melbourne, to inquire into .the working conditions in that Cl The Westport Times states that the other evening four youths set upon a Chinaman 67 toots of age, and, knocking hnn down, beat him severely about the head and body. He was taken to the doctors and his injuries attended to. •"; ' ' " •J> ■