HEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14492, 5 October 1910, Page 8

HEWS IN BRIEF.

Seven men and one woman were incarcerated in the city police cells last night, drunkenness being the most common offence. The admissions to the industrial schools of the Dominion during 1909 totalled 294, a decrease of 40 on the number for the previous year. The dairying industry, in Northern Wairoa is increasing every year. In September, the first month of the present season, no less than 98411b of butter were manufactured. In a reoort furnished Jo the Education Department, the principal of the special school for boys, at Otekaike (Mr. G. Benstead) deals with the necessity for an institution for the training of feeble-minded girls. A good deal of interest is being manifested !in the election of a school committee for the South Wellington district to take the place of the committee which recently resigned as- a result of differences with the headmaster. : A petition to be adjudged a bankrupt has been filed with the official assignee by William Galvin, labourer, of Rotorua. The first meeting of creditors will be held at the office of Mr. W. A. Carter, solicitor, at Rotorna, on October 14, at 2.30 p.m. The Christchurch Woolbrokers* Asso•ciati.m has decided; in the interests of woolgro'wers, to limit the number of lots offered at the December and January sales. For this purpose single and twobale lots" will be grouped as far as possible," and all two-bale lots not grouped will be'treated as. "star lots."