NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13263, 23 August 1906, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

"Fbmco mail due to-night. Tarawera from the South this morning. Ayrshire due from Britain and Australia. Tlelief far the people of Valparaiso is being sent from California and Argentina. The debate on the Address-in-Reply was commenced in Parliament yesterday. The present is said to be the dullest grain season experienced for years in Otago. , A large number of Departmental reports were presented to Parliament yesterday. The governor of Mount Eden gaol thinks that gambling causes as much crime as "" drink.

The Southland footballers were defeated by, Wellington yesterday by 22 points to three. .

Another heavy earthquake at Valparaiso has .practically completed the destruction of • the .city,

''A>woman has been fined at Feilding for travelling in a railway carriage while suffering from scarlet fever. '..';■. ,f Battleship Dominion has struck a reef on tie Canadian coast, and, being leaky, has to go into dock for repairs. ■ Further evidence was given yesterday in connection with the nautical inquiry regard- . ing the recent coastal wrecks. , .

A duel on board a Japanese cruiser has resulted in the death of, the captain at the hands' of the chief engineer. Proposal* for systematic medical inspection of all school children were before the Beard of Education yesterday.

. Plans- for a ferro-conciete building for the'Seddon Technical College were before the Education.board yesterday. ', The Inspector of Prisons is of opinion that indeterminate sentences should be given a trial in New Zealand. Generaltßabington, in his annual report on the defence forces, says the physique of v some of the town corps is very poor. The director for Technical Education has

reported to the Education Board, compar- . ing Sydney educational institutions with — those m Auckland. .'■' j' •'.;"''.'

■ "--'"'■'■* Political reasons, says General Babington, ;'.'.' are regarded as a bar to the carrying out of /.; th© main portion of. his scheme for the re- '.-'■• 'organisation of the volunteer force.

The Anglican Bishop of Auckland (Dr. Neligan) leaves for the Northern Wairoa on Saturday. At Dargaville he will institute the Rev. F. W. Young as vicar of Northern Wadroa.