NEWS IN BRIEF.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 335, 23 October 1908, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Wanganul, October 22." A fire at tho Collegiate School destroyet a detached building to-night. Cliristchurch, October 22. The Government has informed the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society that the only alteration that is contemplated in the Fisheries Conservation Act is to issue licences U Maoris for trout and perch at a rate not to exceed 6s. for the whole season, as the Governor may decide. Ghristchurch, October 22. Yesterday Constable Bird, of Culverden, returned from an ineffectual quest after a swaaccr who is bent on exploring 'the big river tho Hurunui, and' was seen fourteen miles' above Tokoa Station. The man i! stated to bo living on tallow and roots. As a result of getting a severe cold and chill on the liver, Constable Bird has had to apply for assistance in the search. The man has now been wandering about for some days. Arrangements are being made to send the Japanese cabin boy, San do, who deserted in Lyttelton from the Mortlake, to 10m the \ esscl in Sydney. It is proposed that lie shall co on tho lliimaroa, which is due at Lyttelton to-day, but the arrangements cannot b< completed until tlio police authorities receive word from their Australian colleagues. Tho poll tax in Australia is £000, and it is considered possible that the police there may not allow the boy to land. Mastcrton, October 22. Frank C. Olsen was committed for trial torkv on a cliargo of stealing forty pounds from tho dwelling of Neal 0 Kane, at Tonui.