NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13307, 13 October 1906, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Svez mail due to-morrow. • Taiune for the South to-day. 'Frisco mail.leaves next Friday. Mjkoia due from Sydney to-morrow. V The Waihi. Borough Council intends to put a stop to Sunday concerts. A Bill dealing with the Maori land question has been introduced in the House of : * Representatives. A Considerable amount, of discussion took place on the Education Estimates in the '$} House of Representatives last night. The inmates of the police cells last night • consisted of r one person,, arrested on a charge of vagrancy, and another 'charged with drunkenness. During the discussion on the Estimates in the House of Representatives last night, hospital arid charitable aid affairs received a good deal of attention. The Times reports that when the natives at Opunake were digging a grave * on Sunday, they got too close to another one, and came upon a buried body. They immediately tilled in, and dug another grave. •< r • •• A Chinese named Hy Soon refused to leave Geelong Gaol recently, at the expiration of his sentence, and announced his • intention of remaining. He worked himself into such a frenzy that a charge of offensive behaviour was preferred against . him. There is reported to bo a record number of patient;; at the Wellington Hospital. The 'returns issued last Tuesday showed that there were 192 in the institution, 107 male, and 85 female. This is . about 30 more than were on the books this time last year. Shortly after leaving Capetown thepassengers by the lonic, which arrived at Wellington on Tuesday last,, saw an immense school of porpoises. The procession of fish was, roughly • speaking, half-a-mile long. Photographs taken by Mr. Penny, one of the passengers, refute the suggestion of a "fish story." A fine distinction: " Were you and complainant betting together at the races?" risked Inspector Macdonnell of a witness at the Napier Police Court the other day. "Yes," replied the witness; but he qualified his answer a second later by adding, Well, that,, is, not. betting, but putting money on the totalisator."