NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14313, 8 March 1910, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

<§ These are . about 40 . flaxmills at work in Otago and Southland. A vote of sympathy with the Roman Catholic, Church in the lo6s sustained : through the death of the late Bishop han was r ;passed --by $ the Parnell Borough Sjl Couiicil last night. ', At the Wanganui Police Court yesterfk day morning ; t (says -J a Press f'Association message) an Upper Wangaehu settler ; was ! fined the maximum' of £10 and : costs if for failing '.to destroy'rabbits on.his holding.:s&&&■■.': In .< dismissing a- case- f0r.... infraction of iv; the railway by-laws ■•■', at Dunedin yesterday A (says a Press . Association wire), the magistrate said conveniences ought to be 4;attached to every:, railway;. carriage, irrevspective 'of the number of stoppage-places. i /; During. a severe whirlwind experienced !■; in Alexandra last week, a calf : grazing in 1'; a paddock was - lifted some : 6ft 'in i the air. ' ' ! A , number of persons witnessed the occuri'; rence, arid .- testified to the veracity of : the statement : (says 7 the local paper). ; ' v The ? Invercargill ■ • City Council ; has had v a rush of investors desiring to lodge money $5 on deposit' at 3£ J per cent. From . a re- ; mark •; made 'by the: Mayor ;at the < last if-meeting it -is assumed' that the Finance -Committee, is ; about i to consider thead* <Mvisableness |of reducing ; the interest paid 4on -such deposits to. three per cent. , , ■ In 1 connection 'V with the - - new defence scheme it is proposed {reports our Gisborne ' correspondent) .to establish a mounted in-, fantry ' cadet corps, to -be; attached to the £ Poverty Bay Mounted Rifles. ;, The movement is being initiated by the ? officers '' of i that company. \ ; - < 1 * "