NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14133, 7 August 1909, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Building operations in, Feilding are at a standstill. ' - i

*■> The volume of bankruptcy business being transacted in Wellington at present is larger than for some .time past. . Another resident , of ' Ashhurst, Mr. Joseph Bartlett, has disappeared. He left home on July 16 to-attend a sale at Feilding, and has -not since been heard of.

.v; Owing to representations made by the informant, proceedings to extradite Leighton, tobacconist, from Sydney have (says a Dunedin telegram) been abandoned, and Detective Ward recalled.

Nearly 2000 cases of fruit arrived at Wellington by the Manuka from Sydney on Wednesday. . The New Zealand onion market being firm, also attracted a shipment of 900 cases of Australian bulbs. < The new Magistrate's Court at Christchurch will not be ready for use for about a month, as the necessary furniture and fittings will probably not be completed until then. The new building is intended primarily for .the transaction of civil business. . •. .. .' ■

A joint petition in bankruptcy has been . filed by Harry Antony Jensen, Jens Peter Jensen, John Edwin . Jensen, and August - William Jensen, all of Aria, near Te Kuiti; sawmillers. The ' first ! meeting of creditors will be held at the official assignee's office on Wednesday week, at 11 a.m. Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care, of themselves," is 1 an old motto. The Te Aro Roman Catholic

parish (says the Post) furnishes a case in point. Seventeen years ago the authorities started a system of . Sunday penny ' collections, in aid of the schools of the parish. Since then the pennies have amounted to the sum of £3000, of which £320 was given in pennies during July.

• "The act of terrifying animals "has been recognised by the English magistrates," said Mr. W. H. Zouch at the meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Christchurch, "as illegal and cruel." He thought that the coursing of hares could be classed as terrifying them, and perhaps this point would be upheld by New Zealand magistrates if a prosecution was instituted. - .