NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15056, 27 July 1912, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

s-Otee 73,000 rats -were destroyed m Mel;Hwarsa I»fc' year.

The tone of the Ehareroarket was someftjthab improved yesterday.: ■■■■

• The death is announced at Christchurch ytof Canon Hare, chaplain of Christ's Col*lege Grammar School.

One man and one woman, both charged jfßJfefc drunkenness, were the only occupants Jspf the polio* cells- last night.

Various domestic differences were ven--Slilated at the Magistrate's Court before Mr, ip. C. Kettle, S.M., ypterday.

To-day is the anniversary of the death ad the late Mr. T. E. Taylor, the former •rmember for Christcharch North.

The Canadian cadets arrive in Auckland 'en Tuesday, and the New ...Zealand cadets Jeavfi Auckland on Friday for Canada.

By a fire at Blenheim yesterday morning an eight-roomed house, occupied by a .painter named Cameron, was destroyed.

The Auckland junior cadet officers have ,'forwarded a protest to Wellington against '•the suggested demilitarisation of the junior '.^cadets.

At the Takaka Police Court, Nelson, a child, aged nine years, was yesterday with assault on the information. 4of the father of the child alleged to have Ibeen assaulted.

There was only one telegraph wire working between Christcborch and Wellington afternoon and. last night. Bad -JWeaiher and a heavy fall of snow' was pro--3sJ>ftbly the cause.

: s Tho medal forwartkd to the New Zea|3apder, C. S. Dejvindale, by the Italian 'Government, for his services in 1908 at the jgreat Messina- earthquake was publicly Ipreseuted by the Governor to Delvindale *in .Wellington Inst night.