NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 13950, 5 January 1909, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The third wool sale of the Wellington season will open on January 8. . y It is expected that the Dunedin North election petition will come before the Court before the end of the vacation. A boy named Rees, aged 12 years, son of a well-known resident of Parkes (N.S.W.), was drowned in Kohinor battery dam, near tho railway station, while crayfishing, last week. It would appear that South Canterbury is. pretty free from infectious disease, for at the present time the Talbot Hospital, in Timaru (erected for infectious diseases only) has hot a patient in it. -, .Herbert Fayle, a member of the Australian Light Horse, was riding to his . home at Mudgee (N.S.W.), on Christmas Eve,, when he collided with the shafts of a sulky, (sustaining dreadful injuries, from which he died. The body of James Nugent, a farmer, aged 55 years, was found floating in a dam •at Murwillumbah (N.S.W.) last week. It is surmised that Nugent, in taking a short cut some time in the night, during a heavy storm, accidentally fell into the dam. A telegram from Ipswich, Queensland, states that Mrs. Little, wife of a cabdriver at Ipswich, was picnicking at Kholo, on ,the. Brisbane River,, when her child fell . into the water. Mrs. Little jumped in - and saved tho child, but was drowned her•self. '•■' . • •■"

William Newby (28), son of Mr. John New by, of Coraki (N.S.W.). was killed by a kick from his horse last week. He was in the act of grooming the animal to ride home for Christmas dinner, when ho was Sicked, on the-head, and died within an hour. ;

George Scott, employed at Moolpa Station, near Moulamein, was drowned whilst bathing with some companions in the Edward River (N.S.W.), last week. A plucky attempt was made to save deceased by A. Cutts, who narrowly escaped the same fate.

.. Whilst several postal officials were examining. B, suspicious-looking picket addressed to a well-known Brisbane person, at the. post office, a brown snake poked out its head. A scramble ensued, and the snake was despatched by means of a heavy mail big,

A middle-aged man named Otto Nelson, a brickraaker, residing at Eketahuna, while on a visit to Wellington, endeavoured to jump from the steamer Cobar to the Seatoim Wharf, and fell heavily. Nelson had his iiose broken, arid on return to town had several stitches put in it by Dr. Faulke. The following is the state of the Mount Eden prison, for the week ended Saturday last:— remand, 13 males 5 females: awaiting trial, 12 males; penal servitude for life, 1 male; hard labour 204 males, 19 females ; default of bail, 4 males; received during the week, 28 males. 4 females; discharged, 25 males, 3 females. Total in rtriRon, 254 males, 24 females. A Blenheim resident has had seven fine 'trout frozen and is sending them to the East as an export experiment. 'J he wotk "••"as done by the Picton works, by m«.jjis of the block-ice system, the fish being placid in a gin cat* and the content* frozen in au K» block. On arrival at Sydney, the Sab' will be transferred to the steamer Chan*, and delivered friend in Sliana. *>u, about January 10.