NEWS IS BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14143, 19 August 1909, Page 6

NEWS IS BRIEF.

A box. was found wandering about Lyttelton on Sunday night, and was taken care of by the police pending inquiries.

Applications from 108 employers, representing 113 vacancies, were received during the month at the Dunedin Women's Employment Bureau.

A great tangi is being held at the Koporu, near Kawakawa, over the death of a native girl (a daughter of Ngawhati's), to which natives are flocking from all parts.

The Wellington citizens' unemployed fund will benefit to the extent of between £30 and £40 by an entertainment held in the Wellington Town Hall on Monday. - The whole of the arrangements in connection with the Labour Day celebrations ,at Wellington are to be under the direct control of the Trades Council this year.

Mr. W. G. Aspinall, secretary to the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, has forwarded 1000 trout for distribution in the waters of the Woodbury district.

Two or three lads who have completed their term on the Government trainingship Amokura have been unable to procure berths in the mercantile marine owing to the prevailing slump.

The Christchurch division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade provided attendants on the three race days at Riccarto;i during Grand National week, and their services were required on every day.

The Amdgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, one of the few trades unions of older countries operating in New Zealand, has just submitted a bulky annual report of 500 pages to the members.

The class of rifle for which Major T. W. McDonald, officer commanding the public school cadets, is calling tenders, returnable to 31st inet., has been altered to the Winchester single-loader miniature cartridge.

The new post office at Maungaturoto is now completed, and, although not officially opened;, is in occupation of the postmistress. It is in every way a commodious building, and a great convenience both to the officer in charge and to the public.

The crematorium at the Karori (Wellington) Cemetery is now practically ready for use, and when the necessary orders for the regulations have received the Government's approval the crematorium will bo ready to do its work. A juryman at the Wellington Supreme Court for service or. the jury pleaded a twofold excuse-— he said he had 40 or 50 hands dependent on his personal supervision, and in addition to that, he added, there was a case of scarlet fever in his house. His Honor (Mr. Justice Chapman) was evidently impressed by the double burden, and granted exemption.