NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9493, 24 April 1894, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Anti-vaccination Society has.- been! tanned at Nelson. m TSeqoah extracted eighty teeth in -a. quarter of an hour at Napier recently. TheFeilding Star complains of the large amount of sheep-stealing in that district. Diphtheria is on the increase in Greymouth, a number of fresh cases being reported. It is said that the hawks kill more ducks In the year than all the sportsmen in Otago pafc together. With the exception of whooping cough there is very little sickness now among the children of Master ton.

During the past month 1223 acres of Crown land have been selected in the Hawke's Bay land district. Seven bankrupts have absconded from the Wellington district within ten months. Three have been brought back. In so far that a club has been formed, a successful attempt has been made to resuscitate Association football at Christchurch.

Hayes* Circus, sold by auction, only realised enough to pay about 20 per cent, on wages claims. Other creditors get nothing. Ivan O'Connor, son of Mr. F. Connor, printer, of Mwterton, received a blow whilst playing football recently which rendered him unconscious for some time. The number of visitors to the Australian Museum, in Sydney, during March, was on week days 8952, being an average of 389 a day, and on Sundays 2090, an average of 623 a day. ...*., The late potato crop is being taken up at Pahiatua, and the yields in nearly all cases are very satisfactory. From some patches of first cropping the results are from 12 to 14 tons per acre. Several Wellington residents have been fined in small sums with large costs for breaches of the game laws. One was multed heavily for refusing to give his name to the ranger. The Napier Harbour Board find that after providing for the estimated expenditure of the ensuing financial year (£37,193 5s lid), the revenue will fall short by £9139, which will have to be raised by rate, as against £3700 collected in the same manner last year. At a Society of Arts Exhibition at Newcestle, N.S.W., recently, an old lady stood proudly in front of a plate glass case containing a child's shirt. On the case was a gorgeous inscription as follows : " The first shirt ever won by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh." There is a very fine painting in Phillipps I and Son's show window of Mr. Every j Maclean's pure-bred imported Hereford bull Lord Lovell. It has been executed by Miss Mary E. Morton, so well known in Auckland for her high reputation as an animal painter. The Manawatu Standard, speaking of outstanding rates, says that some of the I'almerston ratepayers are a trifle longwinded in paying up their rates, but they can show a better record than Napier, where a list has just been compiled showing that out of 873 ratepayers in the Borough of Napier, 578 are defaulters. On Saturday night a stack of oaten hay, containing 40 tons, and valued at £120, was burned down at Manerere, on a farm tenated by Mr. Chas. Baker. The origin of the fire is unknown. The fire was discovered by Messrs. C. Baker and Lang, who were coming from Onehunga at the time, but the fire had too great a hold to be suppressed. The stack was insured in the Norwich Union for £75.