NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14567, 2 January 1911, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The rainfall at G-isborne for the past pear totalled 60,8 in, being 13in above the average.

, The post-audit system in connection •with die public accounts of the Dominion will replace the pre-audit system after March t 31 next. : - " ' ' -

Building operations have been ;fairly brisk in Gisborne during the past year, permits for work totalling £80,000 in value having been issued. The Gisborao Harbour Board river improvement rate, a charge of Id per net registered ton per day upon vessels entering the river, comes into force to-day.

It is said that Wangamii. holds an unusually large number of bushmen at present, and that some very heavy cheques are being "knocked down" in the usual style.

Building operations in and around Masterton are very brisk just now, and master builders are experiencing some • diffi- ■ culty in procuring carpenters.

The National Provident Fund, provided for by the Act of last session, is to bo worked under the direction of Mr. It.. E. Hayes, chief of the Friendly "Societies Department-.

The Wellington crematorium, which has now been open for about 12 months, has worked perfectly satisfactorily in every way. Since t-he opening day some 20 bodies have been cremated.

A line-repairer, named Frank Porter, aged 40 years, married, was knocked down by an engine at Spencer-street railway elation. Melbourne, last week, and succumbed at the Melbourne Hospital next day to the injures sustained.

At the Mack-ay (Queensland) railway station last week, a young woman named Mary Banahan fell off the platform, a train passing over the lower pari, of her body. She was removed to the hospital, but died within an hour of the accident.

A gill named Vida Hail was walking along Eyrie-street, Geelong (Victoria), one evening last week, when she was wounded in the left leg"' by "a bullet fiom a pearifle. She was taken ,to the hospital for treatment. It is at present unknown who fired the rifle.

. During his present visit to Auckland His Excellency the Governor (Lord Islington) will inspect Government House, which the Government has decided, to refurnish. He will then communicate to the Government his desires as to the stylo in whioh the refurnishing should be done.