NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14585, 23 January 1911, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

'A meeting to discuss the question of rating on unimproved values will be held at Gisborne on- Thursday. The city fire brigade received a call from Shelly Beach Road at 9.12 last night, but on turning out found it to be a false alarm. '

J -The maximum shade temperature for f The 24 hours ended at 9.30 a.m. on Saturday was 76J.- degrees, a degree lower than the previous day's reading.

A Gifiborrio message states that the continuous heat which has been experienced lately, at Tokomafu Bay is considered the worst felt for many years in that district, and there is a shortage ,! of water at the little port. A good downpour is looked forward to as to" a great blessing. "Our Church," of all churches in the world, ought to work in the open air," said the Rev. J. Cocker, of Auckland, at the Primitive Methodist .Conference. "It commenced in the open airit -was born on the top of a hill. ; Let us go out before the people and win them from the street." J y. . A Press Association mftfeage from Wellington. states that the* tug- Pilot, which panic at her moorings at the Ferry Wharf a ■week ago, was raised on Saturday evening l>y means of derricks, pumping operations having failed. It was found that the Vessel was undamaged, her sinking being due to a seacock being left open. Among the last batch of immigrants from the Old Country are two farm hands, who have applied to the officer in chargeof the Christchurch Labour Office for work. One is a youth of 17, and the other an experienced man, who possesses a capital of, £600. ' A third immigrant who has also .applied for work is a London tailor of eleven years' experience.