NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9736, 5 February 1895, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Board of Education meets to-day. Chamber sittings of the Supreme Court to-day. Civil sittings next Monday. The tender of Sellar and Son (£6330) has been accepted for the new breakwater wharf at Napier. There were in the lock-up last evening, a man for drunkenness, and a lad named Joseph Fuller en route to Burnham Industrial School. TheTimaru Herald says--The Oamaru Harbour Board now owes £18,000 for interest unpaid in the last; three years. The arrears are still piling up. At an Inglewood wedding lately one young woman who resented being showered with rice, broke her new umbrella over the head of the offending thrower. A horse belonging to a Feilding resident went into some marshy place to get a drink. It took nine men, with another horse, five hours to get him out. The Wanganui Chronicle says :There is one man. or woman, who gets full value out of the Public Library. This individual took out last year 236 novels and 112 miscellaneous periodicals, making a total of 328. During the ye&r 1894 there was an increase of 3570 in the number of accounts in the Queensland Government Bank, and an increase of £220,277 in the amount to the credit of depositors. The savings bank reserve fund increased during the year by £14,067. At a Sydney Police Court recently a tobacconist was fined £8, and £1 Is costs, for offering for sale certain cigars purporting to have been smuggled. The defendant explained that he labelled the cigars " smuggled " in order to attract the attention of the public. A correspondent of a Napier paper warmly eulogises a butcher at Hastings for enclosing the carcases of sheep in muslin bags. He considers that the manner in which meat is generally handled by butchers, and sent out without covering, is dirty in the extreme, and oughb not to be tolerated.

A straw hat manufacturer, in giving evidence before trie Victorian Tariff Board, said that he could not tell the difference at a glance betweon a colonial and an Eng ish made straw hat. Colonial manufacturers had to make the hats exactly like English, because there was a prejudice against the colonial article.