NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13480, 3 July 1907, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Victoria left for the South. ,; Taviuni left for .West-port. . "Largo Law arrived from New York and Australia. • - '" ; Rippingham Grange due from Britain and Australia. Spurious coin is being circulated in Foxton. Last week a tradesman was victimised with a pewter half-crown. Owing to the prospects of the iron ore at Parapara it is stated that land has gone up from 16s to £30 and £40 an acre. A young lady in Masterton had a narrow escape from being choked recently by partially swallowing a pea-rifle bullet in some cake she was having at tea. As an inducement to young men to join the corps the officers of the Hawke's Bay Mounted Rifles have abolished the entrance fee of £2 and the monthly subscription of Is. . , The unusual spectacle of the simultaneous flight of two brilliant meteors in apparently close proximity was witnessed at Masterton about six o'clock last Friday evening. * 1 :- ''■■ . A Wellington citizen, living in Newtown, has cleared £67 in the year from 150 fowls kept practically in confinement. The-'only attention the birds received was in the morning and at night. In the event of war (says an agricultural paper) our best soldiers would come from ..the.. farms. Patriotism is much easier for the man who lives with his family on the .old homestead than it is for the fellow who fights for his boardinghouse. A thief entered St. Matthew's Church, Masterton, while the edifice was left open, about midday on Friday, and broke open a collection-box, which was subsequently found empty. The schoolroom was also visited and a cupboard ransacked.