NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14300, 21 February 1910, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

''•:A ÜBMttUßed Pollen (1$ was drowned . «* Sorrel} fTas.) while bathing lastweek! At a meeting of ratepayers at Fendini: it S^tfeiwoltid; to ask- tie Borough Council to lake * poll 1 on; the question 'ofestablishing xfeetnc lighirag in that town. Wilhelmioa Margaret Xoble (40?, a single j feWOßan, redding at Ti-erailyn/iLaimceston j -| {Tea.), committed 'suicide last week by cut- '; 1 iV; tag her throat with a earring knife. \ Robert Sparks, the eldest son'' of Mr. John |||$|iii*», ■ of, Abercrombie River, near Tuena ,| - <Sf.SLW.);,-wm kicked in the stomach by . his horse, and died on (he way'"to the hos'pitaJL.V:;. : ' ,-"■ *\ ' The Marine Department has so tar re- ' cehred one tender for the right to take seals -.. cw» the outlying island* daring June. July, i .'■ and August. Seals: are repented to be plen- ■ tifiil on the varies groups. . ,■■'„■ : . I' • A rctorn pared for the "Victorian De- •. partment of Agriculture shews that there were in Victoria last rear 424,903 horses, I 609.166 : dairy cow*, and 964.996 others ' - cattle Including calves), 12,545,732 sheep,] j;:-.!.-.-..and 179,358 pigs. " " j ,- ' Notwithstanding all the preventive mea- , snres adopted to eradicate the codlin moth! ; , in Asbbarton; Comity t«st vyesx, this de-! ,«tradhre-jpeet is -unusually numerous in a large proportion of "the orchards this sea-' f, y^ r ''*»iv-aijd consequently a good, quantity of o the fruit is entirely useless. V A hoy of. six years, the son of Mr. K^&Ji&visht'Jbf a settlement about m j 10 miles from tie Upper Hart, recently fell £\-'jejer ,a roadside cliff 400 ft high into" the .- A labourer who saw. the accident j£-j . ff*ened( the little fellow who, however, repKJiwieed unconscious for about 12 hoars. ■;'<■ ;.-■- The Queensland t Commissioner of Police. S-t;\ has I received a letter from the Transvaal ' stating that Jack McLaughlin, who was arrested at Brisbane for two murders com- j <in the' ; Transvaal 14 < years preriowly, was executed at Pretoria prison on ; 'January. 10.' ; McLaughlin was conveyed to £t ;-; Durban by the .steamer Waratah. ------ .I Mr. B. Williams and Mrs, McCarthy, an '■:■'■ 'aged cqirple, who have been inmate* of :, 1 :WaiTnaflibooli ; (Vic.). Asylum, ■-> -were quietly married a few days ago, and • left'the institution to take up their abode ":,'.". In a small property.at Tort-Fairy, owned :f- by the bride, "Williams is 78 years of ago/ 'md hjs bride is slightly his senior. ' -- . -\,-It Is; interesting to be able, to report discovery of moa bones in the '-neigh|f s bouriiood of New Plymouth; • No properly .authenticated discovery has been made be- .:' ,fo]rtv though on Mr. Camngtoue first map '■■:'■ of the ! . settlement he notes across the ■f\f swamp, near the abattoirs.'that tbo Maoris .: : reported that the '"moa- had lived there:.- ; : ; : lteceut'y,Mt'. H. D. Skinner discovered in •, the saud hills* between the Henui and the * Wftlwakniho, a series of nmus (ovens), betide which were tome' <ckenedr fragments of bone. ; These* on investigation, • proved '•' !, ' p '"iia V* remains 'of ik mo* «l .i,. of • 1. » larger r'.:.>j,^^^T««^^;;^*.; ot tbfe larger