IMPORTATION OF BREEDING STOCK.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10043, 23 May 1898, Page 5

IMPORTATION OF BREEDING STOCK.

At a meeting of the Committee of the Auckland Provincial Agricultural Association, the following resolution was passed: — " That in the opinion of the Association it would be undesirable to prohibit the importation of breeding stock from the other colonies, but that it would be better to move in the direction of making the quarantine regulation sufficiently stringent to prevent any risk of the introduction of new diseases, and that there should be strict examination on the other side before shipping." AN EARTHQUAKE SCARE. There was a great scare at Rotorua when the earthquakes took place "there the other night. Quite a number of people left the next day. But tfie most terror-stricken of the lot was a wealthy lady tourist, who had travelled thousands of miles to see Rotorua, and who paid £50 for a speciid train to carry her away from what she called "the dreadful place." A NOVEL CIRCUS PERFORMANCE. Fitzgerald's circus is reported to have had a novel experience at Whangarei. Owing to bad weather the steamer which conveyed the circus thither was some hours late, and did not arrive till 11 p.m. on the night they were advertised to open. The audience, however, was in waiting, and a start was made to put up llh,e tent, with the result that everything was in readiness to commence the performance at 2 a.m. The show closed at half-past four, and the takings amounted to £283. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE BRICKLAYERS. Among the applicants for assistance from the Wellington Benevolent Institution Trustess a few days ago was a bricklayer who had tramped all the way from Napier to that land of promise for bricklayers, as he imagined it—misled, poor fellow, by the announcements concerning the number of hands required at Parliament buildings. He was given a night's lodging, and advised to go to Petone, where bricklayers are said to be exceptionally ajarce just now. THE MILITARY CONFERENCE. Another innovation recommended by the Military Conference is that the officers of each battalion should be selected by the Colonel in command, after consultation with the Defence Department. A Wellington Press Association telegram states that the innovations do not find favour with the local corps. A SAMARITAN FUND. Under the will of the late Mr Francis Scheriff, of Wanganui, the Hospital of that town receives a legacy of £100, to form a Samaritan fund, with the object of assisting convalescent patients when discharged from the hospital.