NEWS IN BRIEF

Waipawa Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 783, 30 May 1885, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF

It is announced in London that the Admiralty has definitely adopted the Brennan torpedo, which is the invention of an Australian engineer.

At the annual meeting of the Auckland Fibre Company the report stated that the net profit was £077, which was carried forward, making the balance at the credit of the profit and loss account £1407. Messrs J. M. Clark and C. B. Stone were re-elected directors.

Boulton, the prisoner who recently attempted suicide at Mount Eden gaol, Auckland, by opening an artery, made an attempt to strangle himself, and he has been committed to the lunatic asylum. Hugh Hast Lusk, solicitor, has been adjudged a bankrupt. llis statement shows liabilities amounting to £3937. The assets, which consist of book debts are set down at £657, and are estimated to yield £75. There are other assets, but they are secured. The Homo correspondent of the Herald states that shortly after the sailing of the Kaikoura from London on March 12th, it was discovered that a tradesman of Cambridge had eloped with a girl ill her teens, leaving a deserted wife and eleven children. He was recognised on board by a B«*iilor and a passenger, who communicated with the wife’s friends. The gentleman feathered himself before leaving. The guilty pair are believed to have lauded at Auckland.

As yet there is no clue found to the perpetrators of the jewellery robbery, in Wellington. The value of the goods stolen is now estimated at £BOO. The Ministry were in Cabinet the whole of Thursday afternoon. Most of* the principal measures to be presented to Parliament are now complete. The following gentlemen have been gazetted 8 u per in ten dan ts of quarantine:—H. S. McKellar, Wellington; Thomas Ilill, Auckland ; Alex. R. Rose, Lyttleton ; and James llackworth, Dunedin.

A telegram received in Wellington on Thursday records the total destruction of fire of Mr Prosser’s hotel at Opunake : —Oil the building, in the National, £SOO ; New Zealand, £SOO ; Equitable, £350; and United, £250. On the stock and furniture, in the Victoria, £6OO.

A man named W. 11. Lloyd was brought over from Collingwood to Nelson in the steamer on Thursday, and was at once taken to the hospital. Ten minutes after Ins admission he died. The cause was heart disease. He was about 50 years of age, and had been a miner in the Collingwood district for 26 years.

Marriott Sheard, a coal miner, in Greymouth, was killed instantaneously in the Brunner mine on Thursday evening, while working in that part of the mine where a banquet was held when the Premier visited hero. Not quite a truck load of coal and stone fell on him. lie was thirty years of age, and leaves a widow and seven children.

In considering the determination of thq.Postmaster-General that the mails by the direct steamers should leave Lyttelton every fourth Sunday, the Harbor Board of that place resolved to-day that unless under special circumstances of emergency neither the Board’s pilot staff nor the steam tug will be made available to take steamers out on Sundays. The Board also resolved to support the action taken by other Harbor Boards to have an alteration made in the Harbor Act, so that the Government should be required to pay wharfage on material imported by it.