NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14566, 31 December 1910, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

t|; Tubkb will be only one delivery by letter. |' - carries:, on Tuesday, Jassaary 3, commencing '11-.'I 1 -.' at eight a.m. - - The Public Works Department has aci . cepted the tender, of F. W. Wright (£1005) Uf- ' for the erection of the Parnell police etaS lion. V . v i?' 7 Tho Manavtaiu Rifle Association will v hold its annua! meeting on the Hokowhitu fy range (near Palmers ton) on Saturday and fj'< Monday, January 21 and 23.

ffi While riding a young horse on the £?-*, Thrive Kings Road yesterday, the Elleruijjgl-. lie trainer, W. Gall, was severely bruised spr- "by the horse falling on him.

' A frost in mid-summer is not common p•_ lo the Waharapa, yet early risers on Wednesday morning were treated ii> » taste * mi winter. One degree of frost was regisV . tered. , •

' About 100 persons made the ascent of §f£; Mount Hoidsvorth, near M&sterton, durfcfe ing the Christmas holidays. The wear & j tber was fine, and a splendid view was Ipff": obtained of the surrounding country. U; ' Messrs. Tucker and Sons propose to rep.'■ , build His Majesty's Theatre, Courfenav v'* Placfe,. Wellington, erecting an up-to-date ; . theatre and picture hall combined on the lines of the new King's Theatre in Auckland. i /*- The steamer Mararoa, which was kept / back in Wellington to bring on late holidayj&r' makers, did not arrive at Lyttelton until . 2.30 p.m. yesterday (says a Press Asuocialion message). Ehe took a large number of passengers. The paying over of the stakes in con- .' . ■ neat ion with the Webb-Pearco boat race was to have taken place at the Wanganui • Opera Houfie on Tuesday evening, but owing to the absenoe from town of the stakeholder, Mr. F. Webb-Jones, the ceremony did not take place. The building trade in the Cambridge district is extremely bride at the present, upwards of a dozen residences being in various stages of erection. Consequently the amount of timber being brought to the Cambridge station is very large. Most of this is due to the flourishing condition of the dairying industry. " There seems to be a good deal of dissatisfaction as to the manner in which the Arbitration Act is administered," remarked the chairman at the General Labourers' Conference in Wellington on Wednesday, " but so far as our union is concerned it has been a great advantage to :■ " 1 us in preventing a serious fall in wages iiuring the winter of 1909."