NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13613, 5 December 1907, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Largo Law for Fiji to-day. A Suez mail is due to-day. Monowai due from the South to-day. Vv>iwera left for the South and London. Turakina for the South and London today.

Navua arrived from Sydney and the Islands.

Wanganui is agitating for an all-night telephone service. *| The Mokoia ' left Sydney „ for Auckland yesterday afternoon. - Green peas are now being retailed in Masterton at one shilling per peck.

The Act which provides for free and compulsory education : n " New Zealand, was passed on November 29, 1877. A hapnka weighing over-<loolby caught in the vicinity of the Hen and Chicken Islands, was brought into Whangarei last week.

Among the cows entered in the Jersey class at the Taranaki show was one which was recently sold by auction at Waiwakaiho for £104.

B. C. Freybjerg, a young Wellington swimmer, proposes during this season to swim across the harbour.. ,from Thorndon to Day's Bay,, a distance of about eight miles.

During recess the public arc allowed access to the Parliamentary Library, which contains some 60,000 volumes.' There are restrictions, however, as nobody is allowed to take out works of recent fiction. '' I myself would rather lose a good many eases than be accused of being too eager for a conviction if I were Crown prosecutor," remarked Judge Haselden, at Mastorton last week, in approval of the Crown solicitor's agreeing not to press a point. The potato market is still depressed in Dunedin. One firm reshipped 200 bags to Melbourne, for the reason that they would not realise freight and charges. Prime whites now are offering from £2 to £2 5s 3. ton; soft and inferior, from 30s to 355.

While bushtVlJing near Nelson on Saturday last, C. W. Casey, a, well-known axeman, met with a painful accident. Casey was cutting a tree when a dead branch fell, causing him to miss a stroke, and the axe slipped and inflicted a deep gash" in the calf of a leg.