NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13523, 22 August 1907, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

i Mokoia left for the South. " '■ Manapouri left for the Islands. * Moura from the South to-day. The Thames Borough Council.is establishing municipal abattoirs. A loan of £2500 'has been arranged by the borough. J Otaki residents" are making' a. move to purchase a recreation ground at a cost of £800, and already half the amount has been promised. » ■ ' A leading dairy farmer near the Pienga- . roa. Junction, one at To Matai, and another in the Tauranga district, are having milking machines installed in their cowsheds at the present time. • Last Thursday a storm of exceptional ; ■ ' severity occurred in the vicinity of the Pa- ', pamoa'No. 1 'settlement. Bay of Plenty. It is estimated that about- sin of rain fell within a quarter of an hour. The Indian, Bhika, who was sentenced p; : : to -death at" the last criminal sessions for the -murder'of an Indian woman at Labasa, was 'hanged at Korovoti, Fiji, on August 13, death being instantaneous.- " ;, The Ashburton Guardian's Hinds correspondent says that ploughing by steam in v , the Hinds district is being extensively carried on at present. Each plant is capable of turning over from 30 to 40 acres of land per day. % A Wyndham farmer has sold 150 tons ■" - of-'turnips for consignment to droughtstricken North Otago. An Edendale farmer has similarly disposed of 100 tons. Truck- <; loads of this class of fodder are being railed „,. away daily. ;"'. ' / The Wellington Evening Post says: — "We have undoubted authority for stating , that a 'rumour which has been current for some time in this city, that a will has been proved, or administration granted, of |yff;"'V the late ' Premier's; estate in England, is entirely without foundation." , The directorate of the New Zealand Fanners* Dairy Union has received an offer for two small lots of butter at a figure which is a halfpenny less than that re- . ceived for the main output last year. The acceptance of the offer (says, the Eketahuna Express) is under consideration. ■ j A Dunedin citizen is asking his dentist ;: ( to solace him with four-figured damages in h consequence of • a mishap alleged to have .•' - occurred in the dental surgery. The *; ~ claimant's 6tory is- that a portion of a tooth which was being pulled was allowed to get into his throat, and it is now in one . of his lungs. ,"How long hare you been a stablehand T" a witness was asked at the Arbitration Court at Christchnrch the other day. "I'm afraid 1 can't tell you that," he replied.: "Something under 50 years, I suppose," said Mr. Justice Sim. "Yes," •;.; - ■ replied !■ the '; witness;';. "I was ; practically born in a stable." ========= m l - ;,,■.:•■:..''>:.■.'.-■ . ■ ' -. .