NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12860, 8 May 1905, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Football season opened. Tarawera left for the South, 'Frisco mail leaves on Friday. Westralia arrived from Sydney. Victoria for Sydney this evening. Banffshire left for Britain via the South. Aparima due from Calcutta oh Wednesday. • The Hjulalu Summary will be- published on Wednesday. ' Th< Taviuni is due fros* the Eastern Pacific oh Thursday. During the month of April 139 births, 55 deaths, aud 106 marriages were registered in Wellington. Fifty-three- application* have been received for tb« position of lady assistant at the Wellington Public Library. Dr. Chilton, acting-curator ol Canterbury Museum, states that the fish found on the Ijeacl? at Lookout Point, near Akaroa, i.-» a large sunfish. 'Hit number of marriage certificate* (101) issued by the registrar rf marriages, Christchurch, during April constitutes a record for th« office. A boy named S. H. Bradley, ag«d 11 years, residing at Marrickvilie, was drowned in Cook's Rivei at Canterbury (N.S.W.) whi'i bathing with companions. 'Hi Land Purchase Board lias under conModeration the acquisition of land i» the Lower Hutt Valley for workmen's homes. A number of areas are under offer. A Geclont; (Vic.) angler, while fishing recently on a pier, hooked a bicycle, which was identified as one stolen tiom an officer of the wheat ship tsokoto lust .fa.nuaty. The bore-hole at Brunner, which lias been driven to a. depth of 250 ft. ha.* been stopped. So far there are no indication? of coal* bearing country. It is not known whether it will Ue dri»en any further.

" There i« •' kind of teaching a;!urmd.' said the Rev. W. Ready at Ukrisfchiil'di the other evening, "that the less til a man is for earth the more tit he must be lor heaven I flou't believe that, at all. Heaven is no! a lumber-room for those who are of no use on earth

The Oa.ioa.ru Mail is assured thai Iho i potato disease in the North Otago district j has proved much less destructive than was | anticipated, and should' the luucim Ueep in ! the pits, as there is every rea-on in antici- ; pate • if due care is exercised, the lavages ol j the disease will be confined to .< very limited sphere of operation.

Land is difficult to obtain in Gie.v mouth, | The major portion of the town <..- built, r.u , Maori leaseholds at enormously high rental."*, and vacant allotments an- not <>> be had. I The freehold town lies southwa.nl. and there j a quarter-acre residential site commands as . high a price as £250. Even at that, ligure | really good sites are difficult to obtain.

A pest new to the district has been ! attacking the potato crop* around Stratford j (Vic). A small white moth settle.* on the growing stems, and in a film-like web deposit."! its eggs. The resulting caterpillar, which is small, eats into the .stems or destroys the buds on the stalks. When dis- I imbed the moths rise in cloud". Though many remedies have been hied, uouc has i yet frev«d effective. >