NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13814, 29 July 1908, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

There is at present a" mild epidemic of scarlet ierer in Waihi (telegraphs our correspondent), more particularly among the younger people of the district.

Two persons arretted on charges of drunkenness, and one on a charge of being illegally on premises, vera the only occupants" of the polite cells last night.

Waitara can claim the distinction of exporting more beef than any other port in the Dominion. For the six months ending June 50, 1908, it chipped 6,556,8871b, or 651,5851b more thin Napier, its nearest rival in the matter of jU*i\Uty.

It is underst/*' : . tlf-.t iif an Ojpjvaiiion candidate does not tome for vard Ut contest the -MatHora seat id; p. the Sen. R. McNab, the license party will probably put forward a man in view of the local option poll, the party having bees advised that such a course is desirable i:.t the interests of the movement.

: A "Wellington tailor has revealed a trick that is being played on some country people. A canvasser travels the country taking orders for suits to be made by So-and-so, a first-class city tailor. . He sends the order, not to a tailor, but to , a factory, which sends to the expectant buyer " tailor-made*' goods that are" in reality mere " slops.' The traveller geis the profits.