NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13708, 26 March 1908, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

' Atrshikk loading for Britain. Navua due from Sydney and the Islands. Monowai due from the South this ingWhakarua due from London and Aus- "' tralia.. . ~ .'■ ■ Coal' to the value of £222,000 was produced in Queensland last year. Four new Lighthouses are to be erected on the north-west coast of West Australia. The opening of national endowment lands for selection in the Auckland district is •.':'.. gazetted. . .. t ■ - Adelaide City .Council is drafting bylaws for regulating the making and sale of icecream. It was noted at a recent meeting of the Dunedin Hospital Trustees. that it would cost £14,000 a year to run the hospital It is 'stated that plans are being prepar- . '•■'''Jed for a.; theatre at Tim am with seating accommodation for over 2000 persons. A list of special books in languages and literature for claes C certificate, and Civil Sen-ice examinations, 1909 and 1910, is gazetted. ■ * ' ' The estates of 62 deceased persons were placed under the charge of the Public Trustee for management during the month of February. The South Canterbury Master Bakers' Association has decided to adopt the cash coupon system."' It will probably come into operation in a month or 6ix weeks. The dead body of Louis David Grill, ex-postmaster at Cairns, Queensland, was found with a bullet wound in the, head, on the rocks at Bondi, Sydney, the other day. Thinking her husband dead, Mrs. Galsworthy, of Geelong (Vic), married another man, and after some years' absence her first husband has returned. Galsworthy says he will take.his wife back to his new home, and that he will keep the children born to the second husband. Recently Mrs. 'George Hill, the young wife of a farmer near Healesville (N.S.W.), was lighting a fire when her nightdress became ignited. She ran .screaming out of the house, and when her husband overtook Iter and extinguished the flames she was fearfully burned. .She died two hours later. The Commissioners of the Government Savings Bank of New South Wales have adopted regulations to permit of accounts opened by friendly societies being operated upon by cheque. 'The Commissioners have also decided to allow interest on the credit balances of such accounts up to £10,000 in each case. Recently William Morant, son of the proprietor of the Racecourse Hotel, Hillston, New South Wales, had occasion to go down a well. On his way up he was overcome with foul air, and fell to the bottom. Every effort was made to rescue him, but failed, a* the air was bad, and it was some hours before the body was recovered. A 6hearer named Frank 'fully, aged 47 years, wbilo under the influence of liquor, tied up his horse near Howlong (Vic), and lay beside some logs that were burning. The horse broke loose, and wandered into Howlong. Tully arrived later <>a in a frightful condition, the lower part of his limbs being dreadfully charred. A witness in an assault case at the Eketahuna Magistrate's Court stated that the men were not fightingit was purely a cuddling match. Another witness' vers'ion of .the affair was that it was a "friendly strap." Both men got a shock when the magistrate told them that they were just - -as pliable to punishment fur 'watching a ; tight ae were the fighters.