NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14069, 24 May 1909, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

.:■'■ :.■■■■■ Esu-creDay. Municipal abattoirs for Wellington will soon be ready for use. The occupants of the ' police sells last night were 10 persons charged with drunIrernvEs. The City Fire, Brigade responded to a, ' .false alarm of fire from Shortland-street late on Saturday night. • An effort is being made to form a shipping company in Palmeraton North. The object is to secure a steamer to run between the West Coast, .Wellington, and fcf§Foxwjn. The proprietor of the Turarua - vineyard (Mr. Lamb) has been advised by a high legal authority, thai the carrying of no-license in" - Masterton will not ; affect • his business in the manufacture and sale - . of wine. The-Government- has decided, as soon as the water is laid on, that the Main Trunk express trains shall stop'at Levin to '-, take in water. The Department will take 3,000,000 gallons of water per annum at L . the rate of 9d per 1000 gallons. "The fact cannot be disguised," said a fanner to a Wairarapa ; Age ; reporter, " that irabbits are on the increase very appreciably in the lower stretches of the North Island. '. Rabbits axe. to be teen in - thousands 'in '\ [ certain districts, where, no doubt most com-. j : ; plete measures have been taken to cpre- [ - - vent their spread. Even behind Welling- ,-:: ton; city, where the hills are gteep and bar- ',' Ten', and where rabbits can thrive, there k:: ; are now many times more rabbits than were ;,. , to be seen ten years ago."