News in Brief.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XIII, Issue 2404, 14 August 1895, Page 3

News in Brief.

Frozen Meat Conference is to meet at Wellington at end of month. H. Smith, of Ormondville, is converting bis butter factory into a cbeese factory. Mr and Mrs Putman have resigned the charge of the Waipuknrau Hospital. General Booth has sailed for Africa and Australia. United States is sending a warship to Syria to enquire into the attack on the American College in Tarsus. It is reported that Tufekeschefif, arrested on suspicion of being concerned in murder of M. Stambouloff, has been liberated. The accounts for past year show -ATOO.OOO. The soutl'i cion of Queensland is suffering ™evereiy from drought. Heavy losses of stock are reported in places. Six of the crew of the Prince Oscar, which sank in the Atlantic after a collision were drowned. Others were rescued by ship Capak after being three days in open boat without food. Body of a two-year-old boy named Williams found in Port Melbourne lagoon, with heavy stone round neck. Public meeting at Christchurch protested against Government Licensing Bill as undemocratic. Prospects of gold discovered near Wellington, and application made to City Council for mining leases at Karori Eeserve. A child, two years old, named McLacblan, has been drowned in a well at Green Island. An old pensioner named James Begg, aged 75, committed suicide at the Hutt. Auckland Eope Fibre and Matting Company’s works, property of the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company, has been disposed of to a syndicate. Another fall of snow at Dunedin. 550 men and boys employed at Branner mines get only two days work a fortnight. Steamer Port Chalmers, from London to Sydney put into Adelaide much damaged, having run into an ice-berg off the Cape. Five hundred hostile natives invaded Zanzibar, but were met and chased off with a loss of fifty, by the British and Native regulars. 198 men employed on Wellington relief works at 3s, 4s, and 5s a day. London prices are: New Zealand mutton —First quality, per lb ; second quality, 3|d; Lamb, 4.Vd. Tallow is 51s 6d and medium beef 20s 3d in London. Sheepskins show rise of £d to 3d in London, Australian butter is quoted at 35s to 995. A portion of the Queensland cattle by the Echuca brought 5 id. Enahine arrived at Wellington on Monday. British Parliament opened on Monday. Britain protests against cession by China of portion of buffer state. Alfred Hollis, settler, was found dead near Capt. Eussell’s residence, Hastings.