NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13491, 18 May 1907, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

, m •< -:?/'"- Matattta due, from 'London. I Moura for the South to-day. :■'■•. : i \ Delphic arrived from . the South. ; ? y-Victoria from the South to-morrow.' - .. A mail, via Vancouver, arrives from Fiji •on-Monday. .'"■'.'•• . The Zealandia. is 'due from Sydney tomorrow evening. -y': '"I"The only'occupants of the police cells jast night were three persons charged with drunkenness. '"The town clrark of Hastings "has received • .the final.instalment of J; the grant by A 'Mr. A. Carnegie of £2600 for .the Hastings . - Public Library. A meeting, of Palmerston dairymen was "beld'on Saturday ' to consider the adris- ': ' lability of * supplying /milS once -per.'fday. only - throughout the town ' during the four , -winter months. Nothing definite was de•■T'P eided. ','- .'." '~..,..,..'.'.: ~'',>., . ■~. ■ One of the incidents of the flood cccurred, at . PoiLatahi, , says the Carterton • Hewßj where the occupant of a dray from; Longbush, drawn by two horses, was car- ■ ried by the current, dray, horses. and all, into "Mr. Renall's paddocks, where he was rescued by people from the house. : - ! < ' Still another big log has been removed j- from -the bottom of the Wangartui River, V . -where it had been reposing for, who knows how'many years.' The -■twelve.'., to ' eight shift, on ..the ..dredge . last .Tuesday,, morning '. - , picked up a rimu log 46ft long and 2ft ofn in diameter. Three and . a-half hours were, occupied in landing it. . '. "As -showing-the ease with -'"which those in' search .of board and residence may obtain what they are looking for, now that.the Exhibition is over, it is of in-' - tent _to learn that a gentleman who advertised in the Chnstchurch Press for accommodation of the kind mentioned received no fewer, than 77 replies.