NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9065, 28 May 1888, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Napier breakwater is now out 517 feet. Caffrey's revolver was sold for 3s 6d on Saturday last. At Feilding they have grown a potato weighing 2Jlb. # In the lock-up last evening there were four persons for drunkenness. The Bryce testimonial lias reached £350, and is to be expended in a library. The Greenwood family left for Sydney on Monday last by the s.s. Wakatipu. The Taranaki Butter Company are forwarding to Rio some five tons of their Ecrmont brand tinned butter. "A large consignment of American fowls and turkeys, valued at £76, have been received by Messrs." King, Walker and Co. The Federated Seamen's Union have reeolved to forward their annual donation of £50 to the treasurer of the Duneclin Hospital. ~ , . Mr. D. J. McKenna, a former resident of Reef ton, has boon fortunate enough to make £100,000 in land and mining speculations ab Broken Hill. A meeting of the Educational Institute, which was to have been held on Saturday iifternoon, was adjourned, there not being a quorum of member? present. A land boom is said to be setting in in Duncdin, and in Taranaki there has boon an active demand for bush land. Open land ha? sold at from £S to £10 an acre about Hawera. Speaking of a hybrid "cat-rabbit a Southern pajier says it eats meat and it twits grass, it moves like a rabbit and curls itself up like a cat when it is going to sleep, and in many other respects it betrays its parentage. According to a Southern paper, gold is being unearthed in very considerable quantities fit the Shotover (Otago), in places in which its existence was not hitherto expected, and money being plentiful, of course things have been lively. The New Plymouth Co-operative Society held its fifth annual meeting lately, when a most satisfactory balance-sheet was presented. Their turnover was £20,000 in the year. They voted a 20-gumea bonus to the manager and 25 guineas to the employes. The proprietors of the Columbia Skating Rink have now fourteen establishments in full swing throughout Australasia, and several more will be opened shortly. The largest rink is at Adelaide, where the takings are said to average £150 a day. The next rink to be opened in New Zealand will be at Timaru.