NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9712, 7 January 1895, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

\ TOIOTJB Hhillings are in circulation in fcfapier. A trout weighing 19Jlb was taken in the Waiogongorfi stream at fiawera the other day. The bridge over the Makakahi River, on r>n the WoodvilleEketahuna line, has been completed. • Water is reported to be unusually scarce this summer on many properties in the. Wairarapa district. Of £500 raised to build a church in Wex-ford-street, Sydney, the resident) Chinese subscribed £400. An ordinary meeting of the. Harbour Board will be held tomorrow at half-past

two p.m. Business, formal. A Nelson paper says:—ln the Wairau Valley a succession of dry weather has ripened the crops, and harvesting is in full •wing. The Woodville Examiner says:—The gone so prevalent at Pahautanui has been _. attacked by a fungus which threatens its destruction. ' An enthusiastic fisherman in Reef ton recently fouled the electric light wires with lis line, and put the whole settlement in darkness for the night. _ There Iwas a good attendance at the Choral Hall yesterday evening, when a Tbeosophic lecture on "Re-incarnation" was given by Mrs. Sara Draffin. Mr. Drnffin presided. An ordinary meeting of the Devonport Borough Council will be held this evening. The Mayor will move, " That the salary of the town clerk be increased from £120 to £140 per annum." Yesterday a prisoner named Jas. Williams was brought up by the s.s. Waiotahi, from Opotiki, who had been sentenced to three months' imprisonment in Mount Eden Gaol for larceny of a watch. A large party, comprising Napier and Hastings residents and Wanganui College boys, started last week on a camping expedition. They intend to ascend Ruahine, if the weather remains favourable. Ten thousand patent medicine pamphlets flooded the Napier post-office last night (says the Hawke's Bay Herald of a recent issue), and there was weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth amongst the officials. The leader states that latest reports trow' the Victorian wheat-growing districts, -"re of a more favourable character, an(? despite the weather the yield promises to be b-oavier than last year. Yet farmers will 'hot get all that they anticipated two months ago. A Sydney paper says :—The partners in iDne of the largest .Melbourne firms of • solicitors declared the other- 'day to a Sydiney visitor that they hadn't seen a conveyance for three years—Ji*d "forgotten all »bout them," in fact, /rheir staff of a score «>f clerks was occurred almost entirely in bankruptcy busing,}®. ,' In his removes at the \ Bishop's school, Nelson, the §*°°P said that one boy, in hi? examination paper, had stated that Herod was put John the Baptist to death, because*© thought that if he did so "the Jewafwould make it hob for him." His IfOrdship said this was only one of the many jEmilar undesirable phrases used. ..*#' The Wairarapa Daily Times reports that jff' Xi Mr. Samuel Parker, an old Carterton 00* settler, when bush felling at Stratferd the ' other day, called to a mate to throw him an axe. The request was complied with, but theaxestruckatree-limb and rebounded,the bead catching Mr. Parker full in the face, and completely cutting off his nose, ■< The services begun at Rotorua in connection with the Presbyterian Church have been regularly kept up in the Public Hall, Rotorua, the Rev. John McNeill and the Rev. R. Sommerville having preached there last Sunday. It is arranged that services yesterday "and on the following Sunday will be taken by the Rev. A. M. McCallum. The Wairarapa Observer says :—The natives of the Wairarapa have great faith in a certain Chinese doctor, who makes a practice of visiting the various pas at intervals. They evidently have great faith in the Celestial healer, for a leading native at the Black Bridge informed one of our contributors his wahine would most certainly have died but for the fortunate attendance If the said Chinese doctor, whose remedies I /ured her speedily.