NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8584, 4 June 1891, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

CiOOD ■ eating potatoes are being sold in Glreylown ab £2 per ton. The overcrowding- of traincars has been causing trouble at Wellington recently. An association for the promotion of Sabbath observance is being formed in Tasmania. - ■ lb is estimated 7 that 300 tons of cheese have < been exported from the Wairarapa * this season. A Hastings butcher had his eye knocked out by a bullock while slaughtering on a - recenb Sunday. There have been eighteen bankruptcies in the Hawke's Bay district since the beginning of the year. . Steps are to be taken to form a Chess Association for Victoria, for the purpose of having an annual congress, to last about a week. ■ . . , lb is said that for the present year freight • space has been engaged for 140,600 bushels of apples to be sent to England from Tas- j . mania. t .. ~ . , • ] The Manawatu Times reports that a boar has been captured in that district weighing 4cwfc., and with a skin two inches thick • on ' ' the shoulder. . ■, . Mr. W. D. Holgate writes to say that Mr.' Thomson did not sell the Kawau to a syndicate, but to the present occupants for a private residence. , . Several of the unemployed who proceeded to Pahiatua for , work have returned to Wellington, ; being unable rto endure the hardships of oamp life. ' Mr. Hunter stated, ab the Presbyterian Conference, last night, money ; was nob so readily forthcoming for Church purposes as for Madame Patey's concerts. • - ..' A correspondent in a Dunedin contemporary says that there is an undue proportion of Catholics in ; the police force and warders in gaols in the colony. „ ■ ' The North Otago Times understands that an Oamaru • resident has dropped into a handsome legacy from the' Ola. Country. The sum is said to be £10,000. A Board appointed Vin Tasmania to ad-"' judicata upon competition for £100 offered for best method of eradicating codlin moth . ; recommended that no award be made. No clue has yet", been discovered of the , young man .who escaped from the Asylum on Saturday. last.; 'His relations aro naturally extremely anxious to hear of bim. j The , Wellington , Education Board lias 1 resolved to''protest againb a license being ■ granted to a hotel at Makakabi, as ib is in, close proximity to the 'proposed school. ■»:;? A ■ correspondent 1, of the , Wairarapa Weekly iat Pahiatua writes"l am sure the unemployed, will - soon >be sick of the 'Maturi. as they are "working in,mad almost fup to their necks." . V|| , f 1 The Master ton School Oommibteehas decided that as special ' facilities are provided - ,in this bow for winners of scholarships, in the shape of endowments, cannot support' the resolutions of the Groytown Committee requesting ian increase lin . the / value of country scholarships. - ■■ The local option poll for the district of Remuera was taken yesterday ab the " residence of.the Returning Officer, Mr. Dinnison, Belmont Terrace. There were /only, / • y eleven votes recorded, all of which were against any increase of publicans' licenses. There were no informal votes. • A committee appointed at a recent meet-'-V/H ing of. the Christcnurch local bodies .recom-'; . mended that the Government be requested to introduco legislation to enable the local • ' boards of health to make by-laws to regulate the sale of food and milk, and to in-' ' ' spect and Kcense dairies and other premises. Ib is stated that preliminary enquiries are being made as to the prospect of success in establishing a co-operative butchery at Greymouth. ■ The result is deemed so satis factory that all the arrangements neces- , sarily entailed in order to carry on such a business are in a fair way of being comJ pleted shortly so as to enable a start Ito be r made. ' .<