NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15167, 5 December 1912, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Three men, arrested for drunkenness, occupied the police cells last night. An interim dividend at the Tate cf 6 per cent, is payable to shareholders of the Ban* of. New Zealand to-day. The importation of' food into Germany amounts to £135,000,000 a year according to Herr Hemmer. who addressed a meeting at the Town Hall last night. . The completion of the first trip under the new Napier-Gisborne tri-weekly ferry service was celebrated at the Utter place yesterday by a function presided over by the Mayor. . The man. J. E. Ecler, who was injured in a motor car accident at Timaru on Tuesday, died the same night. An inquest was opened but was adjourned.—(Press Association.) The rainfall at Waibi for the month of November is given by Mr. 11 B. Devereaux. F.R.M.S., *» 3.14 inches, as compared with an average of 4.5 inches for previous years. , A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by Peter Hansen, carpenter, of Northcote. The first meeting of creditors is to be ? .d on Tuesday afternoon next at the office { of the Official Assignee. J j.- ■ ■ —*•- - "'r •■ ■-* *M»r" r '^^""°" ; " r a young woman #*named Evelyn May Bracewell succumbing to what was apparency a dose of lysol. An inquest is to be held to-day. As the children's annual flower show is being held to-morrow, the Auckland Education Board has declared a special holiday in all city and suburban schools within ■» radius of twenty miles from the Auckland post office. The horses attached to a cab, owned by Mr B. Davis, Cambridge, took fright and cal'loped down Duke-street Hill on Tuesday. When half-way down the cab came in contact with the embankment, the vehicle being (smashed to pieces.

The quantity of coal shipped at Newcastle during the week ending November 23 for places beyond the State shows a decrease of 19,720 tons as compared with the corresponding week last year. -Of the total 57,380 tons went to Commonwealth and New Zealand ports, and 26,373 tons to foreign ports. The Nelson Harbour Board has decided to take a poll of ratepayers on a. proposal to cany out the works recommended by Mr B. 'W. Holmes, engineer-in-chief to the Marine Department, at a cost of about £10,000. The works are designed to improve the harbour by dredging and widenin? the entrance to enable the port to be •worked freely by large ocean liners.— (Press Association.)