NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14304, 25 February 1910, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Five persons.arrested; on charges of drunk- . enness we're v incarcerated, in ; - the police cells last night.' , ~,*,, .-- Among the recreations /of .the' members ,of ; the • British Medical Association >.' Conference is to be bowling (states the ■; Times), [ a team? from Auckland ; Hospital having .ar- . ranged ■to play ' a team of : Wellington medicos. A Two ..brother 'Poles and a Russian j" tailors V by trade, Avere among the passengers who arrived at Wellington: by the Tainui from ■London-< on Saturday. All. three: satisfied . the requirements for. admission of aliens into New Zealand.':/:'■ : rV V: ' : -'-v/•''■'./..,•'"'i:' : :'-■"'-'""-'■ "■-' -■'• Taranaki'has had a ! further touch;of summer, but (says thoHawera} Star) the pastures sustain.M.heir;(verdure : ; satisfactorily. The milking season, which (opened; early J is falling somewhat; rapidly away, but a very profitable yield has been enjoyed. , Weaners brought, record prices at the ' Loan ' and Mercantile Company's sales at j Opimake last '*Week, ordinary line's that last .'..(.. year wore .: selling •>for 7& '. or •8s : running as high as 35sj and special lines, with ; a strain of.. Jersey blood in them, running over £3. A farmer who has lived for many' years > in the 'Ashburton County- has .expressed -the opinion that the harvest has never previously been carried out so quickly. J -Crops in the upper districts are not threshing out . (so well as was expected; the tallies of several machines among wheat crops being ap- , proximately ,900 bushels (for a day of :12 ''. hours. ■■ .■'■■„'• " ■:..-•-' (■• ( • '~-.■ y

•It; is stated that Lord . Kitchener is taking, in his visit to Australia and 'New Zealand, a special interest in Australian horsehrecding. ,-Tt. is expected by .military officers that' the outcome will bo a special recommendation, by. Lord Kitchener to the Imperial 'authorities to establish • a .good horse-breeding farm for the supply of! both Indian and British army requirements.' ■'-. «-', ;