GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10406, 2 April 1897, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(By TELKfIRAPH, — PKKS9 ASSOCIATION.] Wrllingtos, Thursday. Tub Acclimatisation Society propose to urge the Government to adopt means of destroying stoats and weasels in districts not infected by rabbits.

The City Council to-night reversed its former decision, and has now agreed to allow male teachers of swimming to give lessons in the public baths during the hours allotted to female bather*, provided they have twelve pupils and the women do nob offer iiny objection. At an inquest, this afternoon, on the body of an illegitimate infant, the jury found that death wag the result of improper treatment by the foster mother, and they added a rider to the effect that the Government should be urged to issue instructions to those who take charge of infants as to tho proper means of feeding them. The Court of Appeal meets on April 26. At tho Harbour Board, to-day, a resolution that the engineer report) as to the most suitable eite, aod u? to the cost of a dock was curried.

The rninfnll in March was 2 06 inches, against 8 '29 last year. The average for the month is 3 SI

Mrs. Eutwistle, wife of the man now awaiting trial for attempting to shoot hor and Morri", was to-day aentencod to two months' imprisonment for receiving stolen goods. Six boys, aged from 11 to 15, two of them her own, were remanded till Monday. The prisoner admitted the charge. The children, from their own account, appear to have been senb to steal things wherever they could. The woman was being supported by the Benevolent) Institution.

CußiSTciioßca, Thursday. The Drainage Board to-day decided to revoko the permit to the Sydenham Borough Council to connect their nifjhtsoil depot with the sewers, and ordered the engineer to out the connection with the sewer after seven d»ys. The engineer of the pnmping station stated that ashes and other solid matter was getting igto the pumps and injuring them.

The following about the importance of thatching etacks hits off the duty very plainly:—There is no telling what a day may bring forth in this country. The hay may have been cub at the right time, cured in the beet manner, and built up in the stack in the proper way; and lo! a thunderstorm cometh up, and the raine descend in torrents, and for want of a good thatch the stack is wetted to the centre. The stack must be pulled down, the ahoavee or loose hay dried ; but the coat of the extra work and the loss by damage and deterioration will be great, much greater than would have been incurred in the proper thatching of stacks for many years in succession. A London journal remarks that many curious things are to be heard of in this curious world at times, but according to all our preconceived notions, a Quaker Master of Foxhounds is the moat curious thing of all, and shows what curious changes are goiner about. The new master of the Braes of Derwont Hounds, Mr. M. Liddell, is a Friend. .

The Into Archbishop of Canterbury had a favourite dog named Watch. Once, as ho lay on the mat at the open door of the chapel, the Archbishop read impressively this sentence of the Scripture lesson: " What I say unto you I say unto you allwatch." The dog sprang up, came forward and lay befort the reading desk at) his master's feet. One hearer, at least, heeded the lesson and responded.

What may become of a farmer who never subscribes to nor reads a newspaper is disclosed as follows:—Before the Lindaey Magistrates at> Lincoln the other day, a local farmer was charged with failing to report that he had seven sheep affected with scab. Defendant admitted the offence, bub plemied ignorance of the law. Hβ had always cured hie own sheep, and he was not (iware that he was required to report the matteK de he had .never read a newspaper in hit life: A line of 5i and costs for each animal was imposed.