NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14214, 10 November 1909, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

■ The recent wet' weather has considerably delayed shearing in the Poverty. Bay district. ;}:, Customs revenue at Wejlington for the i' ; week ended on Saturday reached the ; sub;vl: stantial total of £17,061 13s 4d." >". & ;■ 'i. An innbvSlon' i a^Ke : annual show* of "the - 1 • Taranaki - ;A^BuftTjtafci'S«Sisty"this* year will De ; a parade-a! jD.otor cars, which iwill take place immediately ,■•", after > : the. grand ; parade of cattle./..' - "'•• ' • '*'• One hundred - ! and j sixty eight tons of -- roofing! tiles for the Governor's new re- ., sidence have " been landed- at Wellington ; » "'. in good condition - from the steamer. lonic. - p The tiles were manufactured lin Staff shire, England. ■# In a letter to the'Greymquth,Evening ; Star, Mr. ;Chas.; Heath ; states that this f i is the worst season for whitebait during • the 15 years that he has been: in the can- > ning business. From .-. October ,\ 9. to 28 last year he paid for fish £295. . This year, *' during the same period, he has paid only. ■£45. ' . ,;,,: ;,_ : ;V ". i ... ... 'U,■ ' 1 A fireman belonging to the, steamer „ Kaiapoi, who toppled off the Queen's Wharf, Wellington, Saturday/, availed. himself of the opportunity.i to fill; v his : f pocket* with mussels while his rescuers were preparing -to haul him put ;of ' the "i '?;■',- water, i■: Constable Falconbridge ■ happened ~.';.- along, ' and ; arrested the . festive 1 * one :on a charge of drunkenness. , < ' r' v . i' A man named David Marr (50 years of a age) sustained such frightful injuries un- - der the wheels of a train at Sawyers Bay, .i Dunedin, a month ago, that both legs had to be amputated above the knee. Marr * • must have had ' a fine, sound constitution V and splendid vitajlity, : for .he stood the v;; serious ; operation coming' on top, of the K'•;'■■'■.'horrible shock ' and laceration;? and he is .; v. now actually well enough to. be wheeled about the grounds of the hospital. During the thunderstorm at Aehburton :; : . on Thursday afternoon, '"states ,the : Guar-. ; dian, a thunderbolt struck'a willow tree - a on the ; Alford Forest Road. In its ap- £• pearance -it was like a large globe of light,■ i 1:' and when. it struck the tree it exploded ' v with a report like that of a cannon, «cat" >■ tering the leaves in ; all»directions 1 and ?• disturbing the stones : and gravel beneath, v to the great alarm of those who witnessed ; v the incident from a house only 'a short - distance away. ;,- -. • • ; v