NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13725, 15 April 1908, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

- Talttke for Fiji to-dav. ' Aeon arrived from 'Frisco. Canadian and American mails arrived. Strathavon due from New York and Aus- , . tralia. " . - . 1 '' , ''Manapouri for the Eastern Pacific this morning. The Elthiiiit County Council has only £52 Is 8d (plus £9 17s 3d native rates) outstanding. "North Island froze!) lamb is suid to be iduallv overtaking Canterbury in popularity. The Tiina.ru Harbour Board's new dredge costs that Board £35 per day, this price including interest on outlay, depreciation, •wages, etc. ' • sixteen cases of scarlet fever and four oi diphtheria- were reported in Wellington last U-j week. Seven cases of diphtheria wore reported from the Hutt County, adjoining the capital city. ■ ' Kaiapoi will be the third town in New Zealand to adopt an acetylene gas system " ,of lighting. Picton has been lit with this gas for about two years, and Geraldine is • now securing an installation. During February the Public Works Department employed 2935 men (248 artisans . and 2687 labourers) on co-operative works in the Dominion. In the same period 3051 men <were employed by the Department of .Roads. " The worst witnesses in tiie box," remarked Dr. McArthur, S.M., at Wellington the other evening, at the meeting of the j;, Accountant Students' Society, "are lawyers. They are so often telling fairy talcs S; that 1 suppose they are afraid of telling -them whilst on oath."