NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8539, 13 April 1891, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Chrysanthemum Show opens on Thursday. Mr. Justice Conolly leaves for New Plymouth to-day. * Letitia Brown, of Otahuhu, hotelkeeper, has been adjudicated a bankrupt. City Guards go into camp on Tuesday night after inspection parade. By order of the Supreme Court the Crawford Special Goldmining Company is to be wound up. The funeral of Mr. Henry Houghton, German Consul at Dunedin, was very largely attended. _ A man named William Seagar was in the lock-up last night on a charge of assaulting Constable Watty. The pastoral ists have had a good time of it in Southland. Some paddocks have been carrying as many as seven sheep to the acre this season. For discharging a blank cartridge at the Oamnru encampment, Volunteer Beasley, of the Waikouaiti Rifles, has been dismissed the service. A farm in Taieri (Otago) which was subdivided into eight small farms, was sold by auction and ranged in price from £'27 15s to £15 12s per acre. There were four' persons in the lock-up last evening on charges of drunkenness, and two lads, named Glover and Jones, charged with larceny of five sacks. Justice Conolly sustained the ruling: of the R.M., that Robert Kurtz, arrested here on a warrant from Victoria charging him with larceny, is to be sent to Victoria, and Kurtz's appeal was dismissed. The Feilding Star remarks : —" Since the ' retrenching' policy has been inaugurated Civil servants have become much more polite and industrious than in ' the good old days' now passed away." The Wanganui Herald, of a recent date, states :—" The dull monotony attendant •on the copious rainfall yesterday was somewhat disturbed about four p.m. by a sharp 'quake, the shock lasting some seconds." A singular accident occurred to a woman at Wellington. She was walking along a terrace when two dogs that were chasing one another ran against her, and threw her down with such force that her hip was dislocated. The only thing stolen from the New Plymouth exhibition was a walking stick manufactured by a Manaia cabinet maker out of 865 pieces of wood, all grown in New Zealand. The stick has been recovered. As a proof of the quality of the soil in and around Palmerston, it may be mentioned that off about half an acre of land over 10 tons of pumpkins have been produced. The cultivators are Chinese gardeners. The discussions in connection with the Dunedin Botanical Gardens have culminated in Mr. Fish giving notice for the next meeting of the City "Council that the services of Mr. McLean, curator, be dispensed with. By the last outward San Francisco mail the Wellington-Manawatu Railway Company ordered from the Baldwin Company, New York, two locomotives of a type adapted to the requirements of their increasing traffic. The millionaire Langworthy, whose brutal treatment of his wife created world-wide interest some time back, has just died in a lunatic asylum in the Argentine Republic, South America. His colossal fortune has been bequeathed to his only daughter. Mr. R. L. Stanford, present lawyer and ex-parson, of Dunedin, writes to the local Times re licensing elections to say that he has long since come to the conclusion that, as between the e itremes of total abstinence and drunkenness, the drunkard is on the higher moral platform. A West Coast paper says : — <! The Minister of Mines, and his faithful vassals, still keep on plugging themselves up with the best liquid and solid nourishments the Coast can afford, and it is said that a rooster over five years old cannot be got for love or money anywhere between Westport and Ross at the present time." This season's crop of vegetables in the Timaru district has been very prolific, and in some cases they have been unusually large. Some onions, grown by Mr. \\ orsley, railway inspector, on ground near the hospital, are monsters. The largest one measures 23 inches in circumference, and some of the smaller ones measure IS inches.