NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13483, 9 May 1907, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

■Wanaka arrived from Sonth. , Tarawera'from; the South to-day. Hauroto - due from Eastern Pacific. , ! Aparima due from Calcutta to-morrow. / . The" Waikare left ": Sydney for Auckland yesterday. .■ r ' ; •- : ./■/•;/' Over £7000 is in hand for building the new Anglican Cathedral in Dunedin. A large drumhead cabbage grown by Mr. Bi-Fahey, Otautau ; (Southland) turned the ;i scale at 551b. . ,-•.-. «The Hastings Standard states that on the z Te Ante Lake, on Wednesday last, a Maori shot, 60 brace of ducks. . ' .'., A boy is now on his way from England ■to Oamaru, having been" sent out specially for education at the Waitaki High SchooL " /- A party of three sportsmen had' a very , good innings on Sunday in the neighbourhoodfpf Tanxanga/securing five deer for the day. Funds are being raised in Wanganui to be used for the purchase of a new sculling boat, which will De presented to, Webb pre- . vious ;to his race with C. Towns, ;of Sydney, 'for the world's sculling championship. ; A man who was summoned recently at Croydon by his wife for alleged persistent cruelty;/ said the woman had painted on her body "facsimiles of pictures from ■ a medical ■; book and had represented ; that they /were bruises. . The summons was dismissed. t . ,'A field of 10 acres of flax 3ft high is to be seen - below • Finegarid,- on a school reserve leased by Mr. Alex. Anderson, of Romahapa (Otago). The roots were planted last winter, in regular rows 6ft apart, and have come ' away ; splendidly. ;rlt is •an -. object lesson in the culture of Phormium tenax. ".,. A Rcefton 'man, /bicycling to Ahaura to tell ,a father that bis r infant was ill, : struck /a: loos2 plank en the Little ; Grey bridge, which was under repair, arid 1 was shot over i the side into • the river, 201*■ ' below. He fell on his back in the water, swam out, regain- : ed the bridge and his bicycle, and, wet and bruised, rode on to Ahaura and delivered his message. ,:■ . • . S/'Jt ; is' several' weeks, since the Stratford Hospital *:.wßis'; opened with a flourish /of .trumpets, but up to -the present it is not - available for use, owing \ to being ; unfurnish- ■■■■ ed, although the staff have been , engaged if and X are eating "their heads ' off" '■> at the Board's expense. ''•': An accident case from the back blocks, had to be taken to a private hospital last week. :; ' •'' *. A smart piece of telegraphy was recorded' |at Christchurch lately, which serves as an instance of how closely this distant outpost of the Empire is in touch with the Motherland. . ' At- ten a.m. a.cablegram was de- ; spatched from Christchurch, via 1 the Pacific cable route, and within two hours and forty minutes the sender was in receipt of a reply. This is believed to be a record. ... ;//;//... •It is worthy of note - that the Dunedin Medical ' School . has now attained its majority, the twenty-first year of its career as a complete medical school having been finished at the end of last session. In 1886 / Drs. Roberts and.Ogston were appointed to " lecture at the school, and by that its curriculum was completed./ and students were enabled to take the full course and graduate locally for the' first time- /':■'.;■■';'.;'■/