NEWS IN BRIEF.
One person arrested on a charge of drunkenness and another on a charge of vagrancy were the only occupants of the police cells last night.
Marlborough celebrates its jubilee in November, and in connection therewith it is stated that the local A. and P. Association intends to hold a monster show.
"You can't construe an Act of Parliament by means of metaphors, which are reserved more for poetry," observed Mr. Justice Williams in the course of a judgment at Wellington, on Monday.
Contract ploughing teams are in great demand ail over the .district, says the Methven correspondent of the Press, and the area under wheat this coming season is expected to beat previous records; but the acreage of oats that will be sown will be strictly limited to what farmers need for their own requirements.
A member of the Timber Commission informed a representative of the Post that he had been greatly surprised at the progress made by the town of Invercargill. He said that he regarded Invercargill as the fifth town in New Zealand. It was most prosperous, and did not appear to have experienced the depression felt in other parts of the country.
At the meeting of householders at Wellington South school, the following resolution was passed :—"That this meeting recommends the incoming committee to do all in its power to uphold the action of the Headmasters' Association in their endeavours to bring about a reasonable system with regard to the calling out of the various cadet corps in connection with public ceremonies."
MY. R. McNab believes in hobbies. At his Timaru lecture on " Wai Pounamu, 1791-1839," which forms part of his historical work, he said he would like to see every man with a hobby. He was convinced that if a man's attention was concentrated in a sufficiently small scope, in three years ho could get to the outside of human knowledge. It was men who specialised who added to the world's store of useful knowledge, and not the men who were generally well-informed.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14047, 29 April 1909, Page 6
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