NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12854, 1 May 1905, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

(May Bat. v Afokoia. arrived frottf <>Syduty. i Shooting season opens to-day. • Moana for Kyutanjr this 'afternoon. -."Land OommiswtJars arrive in Auckland ■ to-morrow. — • ' Heavy poacliiiug in some of the Tapauui (district (Otago) stream* is reported dur- • ing 'the recent dry spell. ■ f ' ■. On four dff.rs la.st week a. party with four guns shoY 190 rabbit?' on the West fi iKrnetOfl scrub country, Canterbury. *■ >' The ♦ chairman of ' the Land. Commission , says that when the Government thought m of re-valuing Crown leases, he, would' leave JNew Zealand. * ' ' * . . l\ A conference lias been convened by the * Premier of .South Australia," Mr. Butler, to consider the future control of the : ; meteorological .stations of I lie various States. Two greyhounds which recently got into an enclosure containing between 80 a.ud 100 hares, purchased for I lie Wellington Coursing .Club, destroyed- 1(> of the anianals before they could be got, out again. ,'v In lie Wharekopae district, Poverty Bay, Ihe other day a. fine deer stag was seen. The animal ha.* no mates, and as he is in the habit, of worrying settlers' ■ip young cattle, there is some talk of shooting him. A gardener in Miltou, Otago, last week obtained a number of ripe strawberries. He states 'that- in all his experiences he Las never known strawberries to come to maturity or ripen M>.la,te in the year in that district. - " ft is all very fine," said General Booth, during the course of bis lecture at Christchurch, ".to commit tlie.nitn.«.e of society to "the Salvation Army and then leave us to go round (he world, cup in hand, to get funds to pay the piper." Scarlet fever, in a mild form, is prevalent. in . Oiooaru, and as far a.* we, can learn (says the North Otago Times), I lie •disease, lias been allowed, owing to neglect, to spread ,to an extent which proves thatordinary precautious .have not been taken. The body ot James K. <!rcen, an old employee of Messrs. H. and L. Vosz, was \i'; found hanging from' the balustrate of their - : shop, Adelaide, the other morning. The deceased was 48 years of age. A verdict V of suicide while of unsound mind was refe? turned. ... The staff of the chief post office, as well pw'as' the money order staff, sent beautiful ~C floral emblems on the occasion of the death , of : the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. o. J. J. Murray, of Epsom. All branches of tho office wet© represented at the funeral "• , on' Saturday, as a further mark of sym-,-naUnr with the bereaved parents >' • • ''''