NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 62, 4 July 1874, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

£aia?oi (Canterbury) is in the singular position of having an evenlybalanced population — 501 males and 501 femalea. His Excellency the Governor on Monday gave his assent to the Otago Harbor Board Bill.

Mr Mathews of the Invercargill Post Office, has been appointed temporary mail agent for New Zealand on the route to San Francisco. A man named James Connbie, who had been lately been discharged from the Hospital, had his leg broken on Monday while working at the Union street quarry. The accident was caused by a large stone rolling down upon him. »

The body of the manTreanor, who had been missing fromTimaru, has been discovered in a creek near Temnka.

At a meeting of the City Council held on Tuesday, Councillors Reeves and Ramsay were elected members of the Harbor Board. The receipts of the Dunedin Savings Bank for the six months ending June 30th were £19,374 lss. 6d. ; and the withdrawls for the same period £14,175 14s. lOd.

A retiring allowance of £200 has been voted to Mr Greenfield, the late Secretary to the Nelson Provincial Council. The non-official member of the Executive, Mr Rout, receives £100 a year. The sum of £199 has been placed on the Estimates by the Auckland Provincial authorities for the removal of the cemetery, which is too near the heart of the city and near to which there is considerable mortality — said by the medical authorities to be due to the effluvium arising.

A man who was known by the came of Hawthorne, has been hanged at Goulburn for an attempted murder near that town. He Was suspected of at least half-a-dozen murders, and on the scaffold «onfessed to four of the crimes of which he was suspected. The Sydn«y papers described the wretched criminal as " one of the most heartless and blood-thirsty of tbe human tigers who have ever infested the Australian wilds."

John Jenkins, a carrier, has been committed for trial on a charge of wilfully setting fire to a dwelling-house at Waihola, on the 31st of May.

A man named James Cochrane, a carrier, while alighting from his dray near Palnterston, fell, and the wheel passing over one of his legs injured it severely. He was conveyed to Dunedin for medical treatment.

The last crushing of 200 tons of stone* from the Star of the East claim at Cromwell yielded 1250z of gold. Mr Oliver, M.P.C., lias divided the amount of his honorarium between the hospital of the district he represents, and the Sailor's Home, an example well worthy of imitation. Messrs. Meikle and Campbell are the successful tenderers for the erection of the new railway passenger etation at Dunedin. the price being £3368, 105. The immigrants in the barracks who refused to work on Wednesday, finding that the authorities were determined to rigorously enforce the regulations, resumed work. ' ! The whole production of the precious metals throughout the consists of nearly eight hundred specimens, gold and silver. One of the pieces dates from 1700 years before Jesus Christ.