NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13778, 17 June 1908, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Nkw abattoirs have practically been completed at Hobart, at a cost of £20.000. It is reported that a Palmerstori North baker is selling bread at 6d per 41b loaf. The estates of 55 deceased persons were placed under the charge of the Public Trustee during May. The free education measure is to be introduced during the next session of the Tasmanian Parliament. The wheat yield in West' Australia hun not reached expectations, the average being 10.5 bushels per acre. Since the beginning of the year there have been 18 bankruptcies in Wellington. Four of these were announced during May. A measure is to be introduced into the South Australian Parliament to provide for the better treatment, of dumb animals. A large dealer in dairy produce in Wellington reports that .South Africa is drawing.:steadily "on' New Zealand's supply, of butter. , For the fust three months of the financial Wear the Comonwealth exports show a, great falling off, while the imports show a great increase. In an action for libel heard at Christchurch yesterday, before Mr. Justice Denniston (says a Press Association telegram), in which Charles Bonstall claimed from A Schlesinger £500 damages in respect of an article in the weekly paper Truth, published in Wellington, a verdict . of £100 damages was returned. •Messrs. \ Clarke Bros., of Whangarei, have received the following message from the Prime Minister: —"I have much pleasure in informing you that I have been advised by the High Commissioner that you have* been awarded a silver medal for preserved fruit at the Royal Agricultural Show, London. . I congratulate you " on your success." ■