NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8887, 25 May 1892, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A wet holiday. The Greytown paper is lamenting the departure of certain theatricals who did not pay their advertising scores. Settlement is said to be progressing rapidly in the Poverty Buy district. About 25,000 acres of bush are to be fallen during the coming year. The Napier Park Racing Club paid to the Charitable Aid Board in that town recently the sum of £71 2s, the amount of a short paid totalisator dividend. A recent visitor from the Lake district reports that Ngauruhoe is now not only emitting smoke from the top, but also smoke and steam from its base. A party of bushfallers near Mauriceville have discovered two big bones which they believe are those of a man's thigh. The remainder of the skeleton, however, has not been found. Yesterday Constable Donovan, of Coroxnandel, brought up as prisoner a man named Powell, who is charged with being in arrears with the maintenance of his child at the Industrial School. Speaking of the Bruce election the Lyttelton Times says : -The solitary victory of the Opposition was promptly confined within its own district —one of the few in New Zealand where Conservative prejudices st'll prevail. A writer in the Otago Daily Times calculates that if sheep instead of rabbits had occupied the country, the total value of the wool and sheep sold would have been about £775,000. Thus rabbits cost the colony about £585,000 per annum. A contemporary says :—Fahiatua is becoming one of the most notorious places for crime in the colony. It is about time the name of the township (which means "Abode of the Gods") was altered " pahitaipo" might, we suggest, be substituted. The Napier Harbour Board is going to the House next session for permission to increase its indebtedness, and while no opposition to the loan is anticipated from the settlers of Hawke's Bay, it is expected that a difficulty will be raised by Parliament. The funeral of Mr. Patrick Heath, one of our oldest settlers, took place yesterday in the Roman Catholic Cemetery, Symondsstreet. The funeral corlojc was a large one. The Oddfellows, M. U., of which deceased was a member, attended in large numbers. Litigation is expensive. The case Spackman v. Wairarapa North County Council cost the corporate body, notwithstanding that the decision was eventually given in its favour, no less a sum than £102 3s Gd. The Council has requested its solicitor to modify his claim, otherwise it will be taxed. At the K.M. Court, Timaru, recently, a lawyer's clerk was fined 10? on each of eleven informations for failing to stamp receipts for rent entered in a common rent book, the Court holding that where no other receipt was given these entries, initialled by the receiver, must be taken to be receipts. The Napier Telegraph says : —We expressed the hope the oth:r day that the Melbourne authorities would seize the manuscript of Deeming'? life, and refuse to allow it to be published. We are more convinced than ever of the desirability of this course from the fact that mere children are already making enquiries for the book at the booksellers' shops in Napier. A letter was received at Lyttelton last Week from a prominent firm of London solicitors, informing the receiver that he was entitled to a legacy under the will of a deceased relative. The letter further went on to state that on the necessary proofs for identification being forwarded the money would be sent out to the agent of the firm at Nelson, Australia, which place, the writer presumed, was near to the residence of the person to whom the letter was addressed.