NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14142, 18 August 1909, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The takings at the Canterbury Kennel Club's show amounted to about £50.

Mr. Andrew Carnegie has promised £800 towards the erection of a free public library at Alexandra. .

The Waikuku school, Canterbury, is closed, owing to ( the prevalence of scarlet fever, and measles is 'affecting the attendance at the Bangiora school.-

Thirteen thousand trees have arrived in Wellington at the Botanical Gardens. Many of them are' the Oregon pines of commerce. They were raised in Pahiatua.

■ The. Marlborough (Picton) and Southland executives have made " application for the allocation of the conduct of next season's New Zealand rowing championships.

The New Zealand Educational Institute is moving Lei the Supreme Court for a declaratory judgment on the practice of the Marlborough Education Board in appointing its teachers from year to year.

The loan proposal to borrow an additional £2300 to complete the electric light installation at Eketahuna was carried , yesterday, cays.a Press .Association telegram, by 110 votes to 20.

The occupants of the police cells last night included three males charged with theft, one with being illegally on premises, and one male and one female charged with drunkenness.

It, is the- intention of the Veterinary School Committee of the Ot&go University Council to recommend to the Council that the buildings in connection with the school be'erected on one of its sites adjacent to the institution.

The Reserves Conservation Society, in conjunction with the Otago A. and P. Society, is about to embark on the planting of some 600 pines" and from 800 to 900 shrubs and low trees at the rear of Tahuna Park, punedin.

The fore-topsail yard belonging to the barquentine Helga, which carried away on Sunday through the tie breaking, has been brought ashore, and is being repaired by Mr. G. T. Niccol. The Helga will resume her voyage to Kaipara as soon as the yard has been xeshipped. , . , '

The jubilee of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce is approaching, the date being the 27th inst. It is intended to hold a meeting commemorative of the event, at which an address will be given by Mr. H. P. Murray-Aynsley, one of the surviving original members of the Chamber.

A sad pea-rifle fatality occurred at Cook's Gap, near Cassilra (New South Wales) last week. While Mr. Thomas Large was practising at a target his rifle accidentally went off and shot his grandson, George Oldfield, aged two and a-half years.. The child died m a few minutes.

It is expected that the flaxmills of the Wellington district, which are at' present all closed down, will be opening again within a fortnight, unless hindered by weather conditions. Orders have been received for Melbourne, but in the bare state of the market it is extremely difficult to secure any supplies. ' " - x

There are many private charitable organisations in Christchurch," said the Rev. J. Mackenzie at a conference of the benevolent societies, "and certain people seem to gravitate with a kind of instinct to Christchurch, with the certain conviction that they will fare better here than in their own districts."

The chief inspector of fisheries reports to the Marine Department (says a Press Association message from Wellington) that last season 238,000 quinnat salmon ova were taken from the Waitaki River and tributaries. It is intended to place the quinnat salmon fry in one of the West Coast rivers next season.

Apropos of the pilfering that went on during the progress of the Strand Arcade fire, the licensees of the Albert and Thistle Hotels were victimised to a serious extent, as were several boarders at each, establishment. Mr. Robert Noton, who keeps the Thistle, found a strange man in an upstairs room, who when accosted declared he was a fireman. This proved to be contrary to fact, and as the irate publican believed the intruder to have been about to perpetrate a theft he proceeded to administer a thrashing to the individual. He then, to use his own words, "kicked him downstairs and out of the place."

General orders issued in reference to defence cadets are a follows: —The following resignations are accepted: —ActingCaptain Harold Bruce Tomlinson, "A" Company Auckland Grammar School Rifle Cadet Volunteers; Acting-Captain Arthur Watt, "B" Company Auckland Grammar School Rifle , Cadet Volunteers ; ActingCaptain Edward Caradus, "C" Company Auckland Grammar School Rifle Cadet Volunteers. • The appointment of the undermentioned acting-officer is cancelled for non-compliance with general regulations, 1906: —Acting-Captain James Lawrence Oliphant ' Eowe, Hamilton Rifle Cadet Volunteers. i'].-'[.-.'/■:.'■■■ ,