NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14109, 10 July 1909, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Walter Okey, an enginedriver, residing at Kensington, Victoria, was run over by a train and killed last week.

The West Australian gold yield or June amounted to 132,501 fine oz., valued at £562,830. The quantity minted was 35,2940z., and that exported 97,2070z. Harry Whaley (13) sprang into the River Torrens last week and plucirily saved Percy Whaley (11), who had fallen into the stream, which was running strongly owing to the flood waters. Whaley managed to get the other lad to shore, after a ' ; straggle.

The C/.1-y Council's steam roller, while engaged in repair work in Coburg-street yesterday morning, smashed a water pipe beneath, with the result that there was at once a large flow of water, and the repair work was seriously threatened. The water supply was immediately cut off, but not before a considerable quantity of metal had been washed away.

A police constable doing duty on the wharf at Wellington, on Wednesday, was nonplussed for a moment when an elderly man with a carpet bag asked him, "Which tram goes to the Bay of Islands?". A suggestion by the man in blue that the stranger wanted to go to the drought-stricken suburb past Newtown, evoked a ready assent, and apologies for the mistake in the name (says the New Zealand Times).