NEWS IN BRIEF.
A max and a woman arrested for drunkenness, and a man apprehended ivi theft, were the occupants 01 the police cells last night. There is every reason to believe that the Dunediu Free Public library will be finished and fitted with papers and magazines, already ordered, for the opening of the building in November. The first consignment of rhubarb sold in Wellington the other day, on behalf of a Lower. Hut t grower, realised the record prices of 20s to 25s per dozen bundles, each bundle being about 51b. An abnormal egg was laid by a white Foghorn hen at Gore recently. It measured Sin round the centre and llin lengthways. A small piece of the shell was broken at one en and inside another (?gg,..of. about the same size as the ordinary hen's egg, was to be seen floating. At. a sitting of -the Old Age Pensions Cour* at Wairarapa a man applied for a pension, but the objection was raised that he was an alien. His mother was a Scotswoman and his father a Yankee, and he himself was born at Baltimore. The appli-cant-was in active service, and volunteered iii the : Dominion in the seventies, when he took the necessary formal oath of allegiance. The Court is taking time to consider the position.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13869, 1 October 1908, Page 6
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