NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14110, 12 July 1909, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The weather prophets threaten Canterv bury with a wet July. The Palmerston North Hospital Board i has decided to instal a team laundry at an estimated cost of £1800.' - . . A rumour is current in Masterton that ~f ■; a strong syndicate is likely to purchase one of the empty hotels and convert it - into a club. ■ The wholesale quotations for butter , and V eggs for the week ending July 17 are as *.. follow: Factory butter, Is o£d per lb; . farmers', 7d per lb. Eggs, Is 2d per dozen. . The Poverty Bay Rugby Union at a recent meeting decided to get quotations . . 'from insurance companies as to whether a ;• number of players can be insured during " the coming tour and at what rate.. The Patea Press • reports that i' valuable , horse owned by Mr. .W. Glenny, carrier, i .5 died recently under peculiar circumstances. . On being opened up the animal's stomach : was found to contain over 1001b of sand.

. The rabbitskin market at Dunedin is very : : active just ■ now. Men employed • up--1 ' country in destroying bunny by poisoned ; grain are being paid 25s a' week and found, with a bonus of, 25s pet 100 for all V ; ekins brought to the station. A Stratford business man received two ] \ applications from unemployed last week. > He, sent the men to his private residence f|,: to chop up some firewood. Neither of them appeared at the house, and (says the local Post) the business man is not now of opinion that the men's distress • u "; was particularly, acute.