NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8964, 23 August 1892, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

THB WoodriUd Agricultural and Pastoral Association has decided to hold its first show miles of road have been laid off by the surveyors in a Pahiatua Special Settlement block. , It has been decided to erect a new Presfeyterfen Church at Palmerston North at a cost of about £1000. At Akaroa, the other day, a settler had the felicity of celebrating the comiug of age of his triplet daughters. The Maoris at Awahuri are making great preparations for a visit by Te Kooti, who will arrive in the summer. The Pahiatua Charitable Aid Committee has resolved to refer all applicants for relief to the local constable for a report. A man named William Dixon, aged 107 years, died at Grafton, Victoria, lately. He eras a resident of Victoria for 94 years. The wife of an old Cromwell resident recently presented hsr spouse with twins, making" tnc number of their offspring -0. The timber industry around Masterton is lust now in a very flourishing condition. New sawmills are going up in all direcUl The proceeds of the Mount Morgan mine for the last half-year were £804,000. The amount paid in salaries and wages was £56,000. . Mr. R. C. Shearman, ex-inspector of police, and who was the predecessor of Inspector Broham, is at present on a visit to Auckland. The only occupant of the lockup last evening was a lad named Robert McMillan, on a charge of absconding, being an indentured apprentice. The Mayor of Masterton think? that a home for the aged and needy will be an established fact in the Wairarapa within the next twelve months. A telegram was received yesterday by Inspector Broham that Dan Bartlette, a gumdigger, died suddenly on Sunday morning at Neavesville, near Tairua. The Pahiatua Star understands that a petition is iu course of preparation, praying the Government to re-appoint Mr. W. W. McCardle to the Wellington Land Board. The Wairarapa North County Council has struck a poor-rate of three thirtyseconds of a penny in the pomnd. This is the first rate of the kind struck in the district. An information has been laid against a settler of Alfredton for having written a letter, threatening to kill a person with whom he had a quarrel. The case is to be heard at Masterton.

A young man named A. G. illiams, employed at a cordial factory at Albany (says the Melbourne Argus), is believed to be one of several heirs to an estate in New York alleged to be worth twenty-seven million dollars.

A fair correspondent writing to a contemporary from Christchurch says :—" The young ladies of Christchurch ars starting a Bicycle and Tricycle Club, and I think that 'cycle riding will soon be quite an ordinary thing among ladies in Christchurch."

It is expected that six hundred bandsmen will take part in the contest at Wellington, which extends from the 9th to the 22tb of November. The Railway Commissioners and the Union Shipping Company are making travelling concessions to bandsmen. A fatal accident occurred at Waikanae recently. A Maori named Watene Tawhaio was bush felling in company with a half-caste named J. Roach, when a tree fell on the former, completely smashing his skull, death being instantaneous. The deceased native was the owner of considerable property in the district. At a meeting of the Lawrence District High School Committee it was resolved— " That seeing the teachers have power to read a portion of the Bible in school hours, it be left entirely to the rector's discretion to act as he chooses in the matter, and that whatever course he cares to take will have the support of the committee."