NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11823, 28 November 1901, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

SnutD Summary to-morrow. The "Frisco mail leaves on Saturday. The "Moura arrives from tho South to-

Indraghiri arrived from New York and Australia. . To-day is Thanksgiving Day in the United "States. The Palmerston Band lies decided to enter for the New Plymouth contest. Peach aphis and red spider continue to give trouble to Masterton orchardists. The mail steamer Sierra arrived at San Francisco from Auckland on Monday last. The Hawera Borough Council is strictly enforcing the borough building regulations. Saturday being St. Andrew's Day, tie banks and the Government offices will be During last month the sum of £20 12s was received by the Masterton Hospital as patients' fees. 17S ™ 70 q During the past four years 17,834, (Af frozen rabbits and 28,140,875 rabbit skins have been exported from New Zealand Air D. Barrett, whilst fishing off the Aramoho railway bridge, caught an eel measuring 4ft l*in, with a girth of lorn, and weighing 17Jib. A. man named C. Mackinnon was killed at Urana New South Wales, through being crushed between one of the wheels of his tvaggon and a tree. A veteran soldier, who was with Sir Charles Napier's fleet in tho Crimea, and also fought in the Chinese and Maori wars, was granted an. old age pension to the full amount at Tapanui last week. 'Something new has been started by the Otago A. and P. Society. They are offering tw<» prizes, one for the best field of broadcast turnips up to 15 acres in size, and the other for the best field up ts 30 Thei* is a vigorous protest in South Australia anent the proposal to pay the Federal commandant £3000 a year. It is urged that as Canada can get as good a man for half the money, Australia should do the same. It was stated at a recent religious conference that 500,000 of the population of Svdney do not attend any place of worship. One of the objects of the " simultaneous mission" which has been neld in Sydney and suburbs was to reach these people. A Mataura settler, who some 14 years ago had to seek the protection of the Bankruptcy Court, and who had been away from the district since, returned the other day, and, walking into the office of his erstwhile grocer, placed down £30 he owed him.

* The Egmont Post says the railway authorities have decided to lay a line to the mountain for stone, but owing to the want of funds it "will be some time before work can be started. The time-table proposed for the Toko line is not yet settled, but will most likely be two trains to and from Toko daily. A resident of Westport declares that there are 1000 seals at Cape Foulwind. that each seal consumes 2s worth of fish per day, that they are destroying the fisheries in that locality, that they are not a profitable kind of seal, and should therefore be destroyed. "The hotels in New Zealand are so conducted that the European and American traveller must be delighted with them, as I have been," says Mr. Charles W. McMurran, a visitor to the colony. He remarks favourably upon the fact that "tipping" has not become a custom in this colony. A "mile from McKenzie (says the Press) a number or springs have started up where there were none before, and all the drinking water in the township is milky. There are fissures everywhere. The bridge in the middle of the settlement is quite unsafe for traffic, though that over the Hurunui is still all right. "Why did you file?" asked a creditor at a meeting in Christchnrch the other day (reports Truth). " Because I got threatening letters from some of my creditors," was the reply. "Ah! but you" should not have taken notice of threatening letters," retorted the creditor. "There's nothing in them. You should have waited till you got a summons; that's business."