NEWS IN BRIEF.
* INTERPROVINCIAL. for the position of assistant town clerk at Westporb 29 applications were received. Of these 15 were female and 14 males The Bruce Herald states- that owing to the prevalence of so much damp weather, red rust has made its appearance on many of the crops. It is feared that the severe frost of Sunday last will do considerable damage to some of the wheat. Only about 13,300 smaM birds' eggs were collected this season as the result of the competition by boys for money prizes offered by the Tokomairiro Farmers' Club. Fish are very plentiful at the mouth of Hokitika river at present. One timberman secured a splendid haul of about 100 dozen mullet, besides flounders, whiting, and other fish. One fine trout, seven pounds in weight, was amongst the haul. The gum trees near Pleasant Point, Timaru, that were badly hurt by the severe frosts of last winter are now recovering, and putting on a new coat of leaves, but they will piobably grow into odd-looking trees, as the leaves are coming all along the principal branches, and even up the trunks. The Oamaru Mail understands that th*e New Zealand Alliance has instructed Mr. A. S. Adams to move in the Supreme Court to have the recent decision of the "Stipendiary Magistrate as to the recent Oamaru local option poll petition set aside. In a letter read at the New Plymouth Magistrate's Court the other day a defendant stigmatised one of the lawyers as "a white-livered skunk," and informed him that he "coulct well go to law for his money." The lawyer did so, and got judgment against his irreverent client. The following students of the New Zeailand University have passed their final examination for the M.B. degree : — Miss Daisy Platts (Dunedin), Miss Jane Kinder (Stony Creek), Miss C. H. Frost (Auckland), Miss Woodward (Auckland), Messrs. A. Hall (Dunedin), E. J. M'Ara (Dunedin), D. H. B. Bett (Dunedin), W. J". Cran (Dunedin), T. A. Will (Taieri), C. Schumacher (Lyttelton), and E. Gibson (Dunedin).
The certificate of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia will this evening be presented by the Mayor of Wellington to Master R. H. T. Ronayne, son of the General Manager of the New Zealand Railways, for saving the life of another lad at Day's Bay last year. The presentation will take place at the meeting of the City CouocUt
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Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1900, Page 6
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