NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14932, 4 March 1912, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tk.v men 'and two ..women wtre' the occu"*v pants of the police cells last night. All ;!; were arrested "for minor offences. ,| • ]'•; v " Tlie Auckland ' Waterside Workers' ~j Union has not yet taken any action or 1 expressed any collective opinion in regard p to the new agreement arrived at last week by the Conciliation Council. r .„,..>.■' ••*' '" f ' A young man, A. E. Burman, was accidentally shot while examining a pistol' which he did not know was loaded, at Ganmain- (X.S.W.). He,succumbed a few minutes later.

Australia last April had a population of 4,455.005: New South Wales, 1,646,734; "» -Victoria;: 1,315,551; Queensland, 605,813; South Australia, 408,558 West Australia, 282.114: Tasmania, 191.211; Northern Territory, 3310; Federal Capital Territory, 1714.

A youth named Roy Hedley, the son of the manager of the Rappville sawmill, near Casino (N.S.W.), met a frightful death] last week. While assisting in shunting trucks on the railway line he was caught between buffers, and so/seriously injured that he died half an hour afterwards.

The mineral-output of New South Wales during 1911 was valued at £9,758,006, an increase of £1,021,538 over that of the previous year, and. with the exception of 1907, the best in the State's history. The only decreased output was in the gold production. ' ;

At the last' meeting of the Wanganui Harbour Board notice of motion was tabled to the effect that the Board rescind its previous resolution to promote a Bill to raise a loan of £250,000 for harbour improvement, and that, it take steps .to raise £100,000 instead. The new loan would be used for the purchase of a dredge to.deepen the river channel to,the town.