NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12852, 28 April 1905, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Taujni arrived from South. Marare left for the South. C A Suez mail arrives to-day. ' Navni due from Westport to-day. ' Man&ponri arrived from the Ifclattds. : Air. T. W. Kirk, Government biologist, estimates that the sum of 7* 8d will cover the cost of spraying an acre of potatoes infected "with blight.

Two women, arrested on the Palmerston North -racecourse for betting with a bookmaker, were taken before the stewards and warned off the course.

The Victorian Empire Day Celebration Committee is displaying great in the direction of having instituted an " tropin Da in the Commonwealth. . At Mount Somen* the other moraing the frost was' severe enough to freeze the water is the pumps. The instruments in tJio Ashburton Domain registered four deles'" of frost,

• A giant sunflower was on view at Gore, Otago, recently. This horticultural inonxter, whids was grown by Mr. Gavin Dickfort, ;of Ctama, is 9ft 3in in height/ and the Wodiii 19ito in diameter.. ;

' In the' North Canterbury'districfc (says the Prate) some of the potato •irop's. in spit*' of. the fact that the haulms v have withered off prematurely, will .give good yields. 'The same remarks apply to South Canterbury.

A boy named Arthur Wheeler, a. nephew of Mr. James Donald, of Lansdowne, was taken to the Masterlon Hospital on Saturday last, suffering from i compound fracture of the left arm. The injury was sustained during the catching of a hoine. . . Evidence at an inquest 011 a l» v named George Cooper, who was killed by a horse at Bayswater, Victoria, -showed that he Ji&d tied a rope round his* body apparently to -make,. the horse pull him aJong, and the .animal, becoming frightened, bad •dragged him to death. Mr. H. Jillct. of.Ohau, intends going in extensively for fruit culture. Hennas this #eason placed an order for over £500 worth of fruit trees. Included in tin* order was a line of 1000 Japanese plums. When completed the orchard will extend over 50 acres of first-class laud. "When' can we expect to gel any satisfaction out of the Government V" a.-ktd a speaker at the Waltliam (Canterbury) householders' meeting on Tuesday night. " Well." replied the chairman, " I think that between How and next' November is the time to get anything that' is to be got out of the. Government." ? The Queensland Marine Department lias received a telegram to the effect that a lifebuoy, bearing the name Maverhal Deturenne, antes, had been picked up by the lightUoiisekeeper close to a place called Five Hills, in Moretou Bay. lie barque Marechal Detarenne left New Caledonia on February 28, for Rotterdam. , It is said that- the Mormons at Xuhaku, Hawke's Bay, are doing very good work in training the Maori girls in housework, nursing, etc. The wives of the Mormons go out every Monday morning over the tdwnsMdi? which is » divided into sections, and teach tha natives how to clean, cook, ;i#f t«ftd , childrwj «t«.