NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14301, 22 February 1910, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Swimming is being taught regularly at 33 schools in the North Canterbury district.

• Last night's occupants of the police cells comprised, nine .< persons arrested on charges of drunkenness. . /. '" / •/

There are at present 'eight, cases of typhoid fever and one of . scarlet fever, in the Gisborne Hospital. ■ •

• A Gisborne resident : has f evolved a new potato, which,' by;special ; permission/ of the Prime Minister, he has named Sir Joseph Ward. - •' 1 Ah Lung, a - Chinaman, who i fractured his spine last week, has .(says a Press Association message) died in the Dunedin Hospital - - ' I"™ - • - - ••• The Stratford ; Farmers', Co-operative 1 Dairy- i Company this ' month is distributing £7191. : : or ; " butter-fat- :v\ supplied /■? during January. ' . ' ' : ' January. , , A Pio Pio Maori lias become tho pos- • sessor of a freak, calf. 'Ihe calf nas four nostrils and , three eyes, but it isotherwise ;well formed and healthy. ' ' .// - ;

Thefts of morning : newspapers , have- been 1 a cause of considerable : annoyance in: Wellington for some time past. % At the Magis- ? ■ trate's Court : a bright-looking, : but uiminutivo, boy entered-a plea of guilty' to having committed the theft of 21 'newspapers,' valued at Is 9d. It appeared that the boy :• was ; seen to take the papers :<. from a store, and he sold the papers. Ho was convicted ;/ - and : ordered to receive five strokes of the birch, and was alsrt ordered to be .'sent to • 7 tho" Wereroa Training : Farm, : where -his ;• fathr>r, will bo required to pay 4s per week for his maintenance., '