NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14895, 22 January 1912, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A WATF.B, famine is being experienced at' ,Tempy (Vic), and just sufficient is arriving- by train to meet, household demands. Cattle and" * horses are, becoming maddened..</:'__;';;. '>*.-■■:- r ;;°-- "■■■•'■•'-' It is stated.that'there is a large probability of a large estate at Orooa Downs, in the": Maoawatu district, being , cut .up for closer (settlement within the-next; 12 « Harold Motfat't, ajjed 11 months, whole parents Sherwood, a Brisbane suburb, was scalded by ;a * pot of boiling porridge r on -Saturday 'week, A and ; died from the effects the same day... : ■ t George Wolley, aged 11 years',, son of Mr. W.'Woolley, of Howell, fell from a bullock waggon on which he was riding at Gilgai (N.S.W.) -last week. Both wheels passed over .him,, killing him almost instantaneously,. '*.. [' , .' ". ~., John Kealy, 43, was drowned ■ in - the , Coongan River, i near 'Marble Bar (W.A.), \ - last week. Alex. Anderson made a brute attempt to save Kealy, but after having been .dragged under twice, was forced to relinquish his hold .of the ;':■ drowning < man. -*~■••. > ■■ *•••; The authorities of the Salvation Army have decided to establish -* boys' home on their property at Island Bay,, Wellington. A similar •.-.■ institution at Eltbam has been ! full "ever eince it was ' opened. .The property at Island Bay has,an area of six acres, ,*OUi which there is a tenroomed house, and provision is to be made ' for the accommodation of about forty inmates. -'•'•:«H- '■'""'■'■ "•■-;'• -.>•"■'/-.-'v'.' The Dean of Newcastle (N.S.W.), the Rev. C. H. Goldring-Bird, referring last week in the course of a sermon to the " extraordinary ..conduct of Archbishop Colley during "a; service at St. Michaels' Church, Stockton, England, remarked: •"If Mr Colley were in Newcastle he would doubtless live opposite me." The Dean's residence' is ' opposite the Hospital for the Insane. A (il-.ag shot recently on th«' Clutha River by Mr. H. Hill, was found to conlain no fewer than twenty-five i trout of various sizes. It has been demonstrated that one shag will, on an average,* consume 101b weight of trout .per day, and iis they are very numerous on the Clutha, it is little wonder (nays the Cromwell 'Argus), in view of these facts that the stream is being gradually depleted. . Last week. Mrs. Mugg, wife of Captain Mugg, of the coastal steamer Nelson, fell over the side of the Adelaide jetty, when bidding farewell to friends leaving by the Guthrie. She was rescued by Miss 'Cissy WlcLeod, aged 14, her adopted duughten. Thi latter, without a, moment's hesitation, plunged into the sea after Mrs. Mugg, who could not swim, and being an expert in the v%ter, succeeded in getting her to safety. There l»ns on view in Sydney last week a monster specimen of the Lord Nelson variety of apple that turned the scale at 28£0j:.. It was grown by Mr |; Jolin Connolly at Cowra. This "apple, ' however, is by no means a record as last yea* a *pecimen, Lord Russell varietyy weighing 21b Hoz, was grown by Mr Frank Clarke, Woodside, Rylstone. It was believed to be the heaviest apple ever grown in the world. *■ The sitting of the Police Court on Saturday morning was very short. Andrew Robertson, convicted a third time during the past »* months of drunkenness, was fined2os, or in tht> alternative 3 days incarceration in the cells, and was prohibited. One first v.%nder, who did not appear, forfeited £1, the amount of his bail, and another was Q**d ss, in default 24 hours' imprisonment.