NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9494, 25 April 1894, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

■ToTXTLAS concert this evening. __ A stoat was attacked and killed By-* hawk in fcho Manawabu district the-other. A* cafe had to be forcibly ejeoted three tin** from a Canterbury church during service the other Sunday morning. A West Coast paper says :—" Pigeon shooting in the Grey County is a delusion and a snare. The average is one pigeon to every eight square miles of country." At Gore (Otago) recently Mr. Hawkins, S.M., mulcted a cyclist named McNab in : £5 and costs for being the primary cause of damage to a man's buggy, the horse in which had shied. The seventh concert of the series of popular winter concerts in the City Hall, under direction of Mr. A. H. Gee, will take place this evening. An excellent programme has been arranged. Three men, for taking free lodgings ki first-class railway carriages at Princes Bridge Station, received sentences, one of seven days and two old offenders of 14 days* each, at the City Court), Melbourne, the other day. _ _ , Messrs. H. W. Batkin, & Cox, J. Lake, James Malcolm, W. Paterson, Peter Robertson, and T. Vyner were yesterday nominated to fill the three vacant seats in the Avondale Road Board. The poll will be taken at the Avondale Public Hall on Saturday, sfch May. The increase in the crime of forgery is remarkable at the present time in Wellington. There are no fewer than seven cases already awaiting trial at the next criminal iiessions, besides three other cases under investigation by the police. The improvements in Albert-street south are now completed, a»d a good job has been made. The gradient of the street has been greatly improved, and the side footpaths formed, kerbed, and channelled, and the roadway in process of being metalled. These improvements have given quite a new appearance to the locality. The Wanganui Harbour Board are still much concerned about their river, and have Eassed a resolution to the effect that Mr. eslie Reynolds, engineer, be asked to make a comprehensive reporb on the pest means of improving the port as a whole, the practicability of deepening the bar, the possible navigable depth, and the probable cost. A correspondent writes -to a Southern contemporary drawing attention to an incident witnessed on the main road last week. A mounted constable was riding along at a pretty smart pace, having a prifioner trotting along on foot beside his horse. The prisoner was handcuffed and cbaiDed to the strappings of the saddle by a chain about three feet long.