NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14292, 11 February 1910, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A taxi-cab is now in tegular use at Timaro, and it la; being well patronised. A woman of 65, 'aimed Sarah Ann Smart, died suddenly at Yaldhurst yesterday, the cauae being rapture of the aorta. The large are* of land :1 at Birkenhead. . known as Highbury Estate is shortly to subdivided into residential sites, and placed in the tparket.for sale. In the Supreme Court at- D«m«lia yesterday Judge I Williams granted a decree in the case of Birkett v, ■ Birkett, wife's S; petition for dissolution of marriage on the of desertion. The form in which local bodies must ap-" m to the SUta-goaraotee Department has beers drawn up. The Department is now /preparing an : explanatory pamphlet-in : regard to loan applications by sett lens and ; Word lias been received that air Joseph. Ward is unable to* attend the Premier \ picnic, which takes .. place to-morrow, but f'tb^. Attorney-General (Hon. Dr. Findlay) to expected to arrive in time on Saturday to sitend the picnic. , ■A meeting of the executive of the Aucky tid C&amber of Commerce will be held ! to select the officers for the . coming The selections :'[Hl' be confirmed -at :-V?< v jmual general meeting of the Chamber 'v ' . February 25. • -» 1,1 laughter was caused in the Supreme ' •HO \at Wellington on Tuesday by a witv 275 'Sio eaid tliat one of the reasons why P ea been asked not" to press a certain ?p/."V,, * that by so doing he only "helped • ■ banaV magistrates and judges in fat cases wJ'tfßeeni of the Ruapehu, which ar--syie«AWell»ngton on Tuesday from LtmArt that a look-out was kept- for {the missing Waratah. - Despite' The lance not a,trace of the liner was SSrtJinor ' was any ice : sighted during " ye/. «!#«*« the Southern Ocean. wHmc JwWjninied iFaire, on one of the ind^ww*t tramcars, was;overcome by a tot. ft on Tuesday, and ; fell off the. car T' 3 ' Hi I had asked the conductor to repif Si at I the J brakes. The . conductor Thejpt the employees at the Newtown ' SffiS who ; happened'to board the, car; ; She » the somewhat frightened passeo- • landjHy into town. -§ shoulder to shoulder against arbiM" was the belligerent -advice given g.gjnstclmrch on Sunday evening by Mr. xM Bennett. " Defy their courts on all : ' wiono ; throw aside the legal machinery .-.yM is binding iho workers down as they M bound in older countries. Far better ■Jr the old-time strike, with all. its misery pnd distress, . : than to .throw yourselves on th« tender : mercies of a ' class-biassed , court." ' The pleasant humour of a Petone grocer is evidenced by \ the' war he is trying to f dispose 'of ; his •; surplus Christmas stock of figs : i (»yn tho Chronicle). It; is a good catch" line: he offers a suit of clothes :to every purchaser of a pound. This sounds .liberal Until it ;» ascertained that the gar- ; in question axe not quite in accord .. . id®*® : lfj wwrtefn civilisation, Hlhey . have been gathered along with the Imt wd from the *uno to* * p. ' 1 wm?y - - (