NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15236, 25 February 1913, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

There aro 109 street lamps in tho borough of Mount Albert. Five men and three women arrested on minor charges occupied the city police cells last night . .

Floggings we-a ordered to be given to four prisoners who came up for sentence at iho Supreme Court yesterday in connection with charges of having committed indecent assaults.

The quantity of coal shipped at Newcastle during tiM week ending February 15, for places beyond the States, was 98.329 tons, an increase of 12.210 tons compared with ■ • the -. corresponding week lest year.

The annual valuation of the Borough of rimaru (annual value system) was completed vesterdav by three small reductions made by the Assessment Court. The total valuation now stands at £150,199, an increase '->£ £11,899 on last year.(Press Association.) .

The ■ Mount Albert Borough Council at a meeting last night decided to prosecute a number of people who had broken the council's by-laws. - It was stated that three sireets'in the borough had been practically spoilt owing to their having been broken up'by heavy traffic on them. ,

,'A commission, consisting of Messrs. H. M. Skeet, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland, • and Edward Morgan, district valuer, "Waiteraata, has been set up to consider the proposal to form Takapuna into a borough, and to decide whether the suggested boundaries are suitable. The commission sits at 11 a.m. on Friday, in the Government Buildings, Customs Street, t. take evidence. ."" v : ;

Three. or four da+s before the previous annual meeting of trie Auckland; Institute, Mr.;- Pickering, of New Guinea, donated to the museum a remarkably fine specimen of the Twelve-wired Bird of Paradise, and the specimen was exliibited at the meeting. ; This-year, three or four days before the annual meeting which was held last night, Mr. H. E. Partridge gave a; magnificent specimen of the Great Bird of Paradise. . '■■•'-'. ;:.:•?':•"'."''' v "" ; ' y- ■■' T '* •'

A batch of over 80 territorials occupied the Oaraaru Magistrate's Court yesterday, answering charges of breaches of the Defence. Act, the .majority being , absence from parades. For throwing rotten eggs through a window .at the Drill Hall and damaging property thereby, Geo. Mackenzie was hied £1, and costs 10s. Similar charges .against three others were dismissed, Mackenzie being adjudged , ■■ th? ringleader. ■'■■'.