NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14933, 5 March 1912, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

: 'About 4000 bales will be offered at the Wellington fool sales to-day. 1 Six parsons, arrested for drunkenness, . -mm the occupants of the police cells last '.night. ' . ' "" " '." The steamship Molcofa, 5502 tons, will make another excursion to the Marlborough Sounds ;- from Wellington, at Eastev:"' 1 • - y T -?-r~'- ■■■ -•"'" ;. "-";' '" .. ■ _ ' + ManawatjrflaxmnferV will meet Mr. P. H'ally (Conciliation Commissioner) at the Pa finer ston / North / Supreme , Courthouse, "to diWuss "demands of. employees ,tainorrow.' "J*k resident of Gisborne, who .has just returned from the coast,, states that .the ' Waiap'j County Council .doing splendid work to, the roads in the district with the loan money. • " *-' *~' ■■ - ■ .-' At-the Criminal Court at. Bendigo iVic), Alfred Thomas Swift, a settler in northern Victorii*;- was sentenced to eight years' imprisonmnent for manslaughter- of his wife. Swift* ! lliit-'his wife with a piece of Wood fo hii'ity j- i:Sp < .:'TAe;blbw , killed, her.. f Mr. I). Arnott, chemist, of Bourke, New South Wales, had a remarkable escape from serious injur}' last week. In a somnambulistic walk, he wenlj over a balcony, falling a distance of 14ffc, and only broke ft* 1 small bone of the forearm.