NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14947, 21 March 1912, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Ax epidemic of mumps prevails just now in some of tho, city schools..

A yield of 113 bushels per aero was obtained from a paddock of Danish oats threshed on a farm at Upper Riccarton (Canterbury) a few days ago.

A young man named S. Haydon, employed as ,a butcher in a shop in Liver-pool-street; injured hit' hand while working a machine yesterday, and had to be conveyed to the hospital for treatment.

The present year has been the most prosperous yet experienced for the Aparima Dairy factory, the record sum of £1800 being*"'paid to milk suppliers during tho month of January.

A whale of some 60ft in length was washed up on to the rocks in the vicinity of Monkey Island (near Riverton) last week. It was discovered by a number of railwayman, and will be cut up for its oil.

Over 100,000 head of sheep havo been slaughtered at the Waingawa Freezing Works since the opening of the season. It is expected that the season will be longer this year than last, owing to the backwardness of the sheep.

Anglers in Canterbury still complain of small baskets of fish, and blame the unseasonable weather. So disgusted have several of them become with the unusual climatic conditions that they have put away the rod and reel, for this year at any rate. ' "

South Canterbury station holders say that a large number of sheep were found to be missing this year when the mustering for shearing took place, and a strange thing is that although they are supposed to have perished, very few dead bodies are to be found.

Tho machinery for the water supply at Balclutha has been installed in the power station. The plant comprises a 42-b.h.p. Tangyq suction gas engine driving a treble ram pump, which has a capacity of 21,000 gallons per hour. The gas is derived from a Tangyo suction gas producer, burnin" coke an fuel. °