NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14336, 5 April 1910, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Federal V elections will be held throughout Australia on the 13th inst. -

• A Gazette Extraordinary has been issued proroguing Parliament until Saturday, April 13. ■',■;, .'.'-■-".■ ■ ;■•■■,

It is estimated that since the beginning of the Easter holidays about £2000 a day has been spent in Rotorua by visitors. .

The uneurveyed land in Taranaki available for future settlement is 92,000 acres, and the Maori land awaiting settlement 480,000 acre's. , \ "■ ',' / ' While the North Island was : suffering from the eevere gale lr«t week beautiful weather'prevailed on the West Coast of the South Island. >.''.,.'" y

A notice appears in the current New Zealand Gazette - constituting Mangaweka a town district, and authorising the election «f five members,* .; . 1 A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by Henry Thomas Garratt, a caterer, of Queen-street. The • first rrjeeting of creditors will take place in the official assignee's office, Auckland, on Friday, April 15. at 11 a.m. \ ■ A butcher named Anderson was going ...his round at Inglewood, when the horse became unmanageable and the man jumped clear. He sustained a compound fracture of the log. and was sent to New Plymouth Hospital. Immediately afterwards the trap capsized. ; . _ . '■'■*'■; ■':..'■>' Altogether 13 .-cases': of typhoid .. have been notified in Wellington during the past three months. The health authorities, there state that there is nothing unprecedented in the outbreak, and that the number of cases last year was the same as this year. , -In- a- letter to the'- secretary of tho Christ church Prohibition League, the Minister fo'' Justice remarks that a statement recently published to the effect that it was quite easy for a stranger to obtain liquor in Ashburton, is "absolutely ridiculous, and unworthy of any serious notice." Yesterday morning a married man named Edwin Jones, residing at Onehunga, and employed at the City Engineering Company's works, met with ah'accident while lifting some machinery. He was conveyed to the hospital, where it was ascertained that he had sustained a fractured ankle.

The Finance Committee of the Dunedin City Council have placed £2369 on the estimates forjibrary purposes for the year ending March, 1911. They report that on the figures furnished by the chairman of the Library Committee it is estimated that a sum equal to the penny rate will cover the annual upkeep of the library after the current year.' < •■ -, r -. /.