NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13756, 22 May 1908, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

H*~* m - l.v I lie Kaiapol district, the potato crop » .• turning out very ws}\. in spite of tbo very Jon spoil of dry weather. • The first election of tin* commissioner* of I the Town District of KUerelie will take ! piace on "Wednesday, Juno JO. i The executors of the estate? of the late . i Hon. J. T. Peacock have paid over £500 : to.tile Christchurch ' Acclimatisation So* i ie>y for the purposes of the society. ! The occupants of the police colls hist ; ; ! night were three persons arrested on '. charges;, of drunkenness and two charged,J with committing a, breach of the peace. i One of the (jittboiuc freezing work* i« "■'...'■■■''■ I now run almost entirely by producer jim. I which haw been so Kiicwssfm that at the - other works Messrs. Nelson Brothers are. about to instill a similar plant, he Timnni Borough Council, after having dealt with the local Gas Company t for the past 30 years,: bus ■ now given notice that it will require no more gas (or lighting purposes after .June 6 next. The ('!•■• tiic light will he in use from that date. '•' According to the Western Star (Southland) "stoats and M - <ruM'!s ate yearly increasing, and the Longwood range* are now in- ,- tested with those vermin. A* a result, na- ■. , tive birds are becoming wane, more es- •' pecially the Now Zealand robins, tomtit, • nd fan tail. A resident of the Chatham Islands say* that the present year has been the driest for tile pa.'t 22 years. Nature in lavish I at-the Cliathams, and grass grow* all the | yen- lound. Frost i.* unknown, the ternj perature bsing e'jualifecd by the wide j stretch of sea. r ; i In 1398 out of everv 1000 people living in the city of Sydney 15 died. In 1907 j lb- number had been reduced to 11 per 1000. Heavy purchases of butter continue to be I made in Sydney on account of Victoria, I Tahiuania, and West Australia, and the :J J market is. in consequence, very firm. I A.-' indicating the popularity of English '■ ■.■'.'.. j hooks in Japan. Mr. 11. B. Watton, in his I e.-.--..v on <he educational system of tlwi < <>'-nJ read at the Secondary School | Teacher;*' Conference, at Chriitchurch, j stated that while visiting one of the ! school,* there he came across I" Japanese -,A : j.-tud. Nts chuckling over " Pickwick Pa- •_ ; ! pets. One of the holy delegates at the ; Secondary School Teachers' Conference at < 'hristebiirch, in i<:«-iriiu '" the stipei- ~ lieiul character of cdticnfion in some cases, staled that she knew .i girl who had a most brilliant secondary school and out--veisiiy career, at. the conclusion of which she had a.-quired such scanty knowledge in domestic science that she was unable to distinguish mutton from beef.