NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12929, 27 July 1905, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

■Maori due from London. Tavitmi left for Wellington. ' Tarawera from the South this morning.; ' "Christianity begins at home, and so Hoes trout fishing." Dictum uttered by 'the Rev. Mr. Holland at the Canterbury jAi;climatisation Society's, meeting. ' It is stated that, the Assets .Board are 5n treaty with a Dannevirke gentleman for the disposal of the remainder of the Mamgotoro Estate—about 6000 acres. Two and a-half tons of salt on four acres bf the Kaiapoi public cemetery has faded 'to kill the noxious vine weed and twitch grass, which have covered most of the ground. ' The Melbourne Age states that numbers of gambling clubs still, openly flourish •in Melbourne and its suburbs, and the Police Department passively] watches their work pf spoliation. i At Yarra 1 Glen,- Victoria, a large eagle _ (was shot recently. The bird, which mea-l-sured 6ft Bin from tip to tip of the wings, &ad been an annoyance for some time past, toirrying away many lambs and poultry. ! According to the Manawatu Times, a joiew scheme for augmenting the Palmers(iton water supply, costing £26,000, will fbe placed before the ratepayers at a meeting to be held in about a month's time. The Public Health Department reports the following cases of infectious diseases, jwere recorded in Wellington during the Week ending on Saturday morning: Jet fever, 8; diphtheria, 5; tuberculosis, 2. The Bruce Herald says:—lt is reported jifchat Roxburgh station, consisting of some 0.5,000 acres,' has changed hands. Messrs.Wright, Stephenson and Co. are said to •be the purchasers, and the price ia put ijdown at £30,000. i Mr. Prendergast, Leader of the Opposition in Victoria (says the Tocsin) is collecting material for a history of the Labour [movement in Australasia. ' The work is •to contain an accurate account of the mewer form of the trades' union movement (which finds its ultimate expression of ©pinion in Parliament. I The president of the Marlborough Land liand Railway League (Mr. .R. F. Goulter) congratulated the members a. few days ago on the fact that £350,000 of land for settlement money had been expended in that province. This amount is only exceeded by Canterbury and Hawke's Bay (the latter's .excess being very. slight). ' It must be recognised (says an Australian contemporary) that the line dividing employer and employee in this colony is very thin, and in many cases the employer, who risks his all—the future comfort of his family—his mercantile financial standing— often socially in a less comfortable position than a well-paid and .consented artisan. Recently Martha Jeffries, a middle-aged woman, was placed in the Dubbo lockup,, New South Wales, on a charge of using bad language, and was found a few hours later by the lockup-keeper in an unconscious ■ state, having swallowed a quantity of tobacco. "The woman was removed to the hospital, where she died. An inquest ,was held, and resulted in a verdict of suicide by nicotine - poisoning, the police ■being acquitted of all blame. At a meeting of sugar-growers, held at Bundaberg, Queensland, a resolution was carried urging the Federal Government to extend the sugar bounty for a period of 10 years. Resolutions were also carried protesting against the gradual abolition of the bounty by a sliding scale, as suggested in the southern press, and to the effect that the ban be lifted from the area planted by coloured labour after February, 1903, providing they have been registered and worked by white men for 12 months.