NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 13970, 28 January 1909, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tick Cornwall Park fountain willjplay to

morrow from 11 to 12 and from 5 to 4.

Wednesday has been selected by the J local bodies'for the weekly half-holiday for j shop assistants at Wellington .One man arrested on a charge of utter- ,, ing a counterfeit, coin, and another on a j charge of drunkenness, were the only occu- j pants of the police cells last- night. A ballot of the members of the Napier Working Mens Chib is to be taken to- j morrow to authorise the expenditure of £4COO for the. erection of a new club- j house.

Throe largo, .whales made their appearance i off Shag- Point.. Otago, one day .last week, j For upwards of an hour the monsters <iis- ! ported themselves close inshore, but even- j tiially a couple of rifle shots sent them j careering out to sea. j

Fishing in the Waikato River between ; the Huka falls and Aratiatia Rapids, on I Saturday, Misses Mander and Nelson, and J Air. J. D. Williamson met with consider- i able success. The largest fish caught was i a 101b rainbow trout. i

A splendid yield of honey from a single hive is reported by Mr. Task, a fanner, of Okararuto, Marlborough. In four weeks ,Jlc. Pask took 104 id of honey from his Langstroth hive, and expects, from the present appearance of the comb, that a yield equally good will result from the next four week's work of the bees.