NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13050, 15 December 1905, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

m v/fljf.iEA left for the South. Aupouri arrived from Glasgow. -Waikare arrived from the South. .'...; . The Zealandia;is due from", Sydney., on Sunday. ■ *! -nal- .a ha-- t?'a -.j.l".'--.- ' in < V '~; ';'»>:. one or two <*. w ! crop!* h.",ve been rut. ' .: j_gor.*u '60 ; ok place at jsi&idarough on election. night t but no seric-ss dacnage was recorded. ' ri; ?w(> children of Mr. Strother, of Penrice .icir Angaston, South Australia, have ' Heu through eating, green almonds and -..-...-. v :\: peas.- ' A prospector named Fitzgerald lias discovered - several small diamonds of some • value. in alluvial under soft volcanic rock near Daylesiord, Victoria. During a thunderstorm at Ourlewis, New : South Wales, a young man named Mantle, who was out in search of a horse, was ; killeu by lightning, as were also -two -■:'.-■.■, dogs. ■ _ : An elderly single woman named Mary Donnellan, . living with her sister is: :e-.itreet, Melbourne, fell downstairs recently, being startled by thunder, and '"' fractured her skull, and died. : ■"■.-''■ -■ ,-' (; • The Nee,' South Wales Government has . placed'the sum of £500 upon the additional Estimates as a grant to the Sydney United Friendly Societies' Dispensary and Medical Institute, for the erection of buildings. An official return shows that the estimated number of coloured aliens in Queens- i land on September 30 'Was 21,530, of whom 20,008 A-ere .males. The particulars were: —Chinese, ' 'total " 9457 • Pacific! Islanders, 7085; Japanese, 2055; natives or India and, Ceylon, 983; Asiatics, 1950. . On arrival of the Italian ship Niobe'in . Sydney recently, the .captain reported that ■i one of the crew,' an' able seaman, named George' B. Mantovani, committed suicide. He had- been in an indifferent slate of health .from the lime the ship ■. left New York. The body was buried at sea. .-A" drowning fatality occurred the other day, in the Mudgee district, New South .; Wales, the victims being two lads, Lynn Dykes and John Byrnes. The lads were bathing,,, when „ they got out . of their depth. A young man, named Minchen, r trieu to save them, but was himself nearly *. •»*?■ drowned.: _.- - •< ' • Much amusement was caused recently at Blackburn, Hawke's Bay, during the hearing of a charge of robbing hencotes. A firmer rained Aspin picked out 11 eggs from 40 found in the accused's possession, and positively identified them as having been laid by his hens. The Bench, how- :,■■/. ever, . said - there could be no conviction on such evidence. .:•* -