NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15250, 13 March 1913, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

RjjxwAr excursion fare* come into force on'H*rch. 18. ....■*.•,* Control of city street traffic by the police is advocated by the Mayor. , Fire men and two women, all arrested " * on minor'charges,; occupied the police cells last evening. The Trifle dfErapfre - titojfd Coinrahfclen will open iia'Aockland;Msuigs at 11 a.nv to-day, in the City Council Chambers. A meeting of> Eden ferface ratepayers resolved last evening to take a poll on the question of^amalganSiing with the city. Three children, wbd were "fotfnd in & disorderly boose recently raided by the police, were yesterday committed to an ■•;■•: industrial school. ;* Ninety-two cases of typhoid fever have ' been reported in f the Auckland Province daring the last six weeks.; Only nine- of these occurred in the city. -■ ~.' A shipment of Mongolian, pheasants, consigned. the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, will arrive, this month.; It is intended to cross these birds with Chinese phasasfita r "K: '^^f^' : :'^:^^-^-;]M r ■ , A seaman named Alexander Delberg, ft Russian, was admitted to the hospital : yesterday, suffering. from a badly-cut arm, sustained as the result of a fall while working on the steamer XyfcWton.- ■ A young man named Philip Marks, employed at Mr. R. Dillicat'a joinery works, Princes Street, Onehunga, caught his left hand in a circular saw .'on Tuesday. The third finger was cut off, while two other fingers were crushed. :.;.', A four-roomed house, owned by. Henry Keenan, and occupied by J. Smith, was destroyed by fire at Bufnside yesterday afternoon. There was nobody in the house at the time. The house, which was valued at £3000, was insured for £200 in the Alliance Office, but the furniture was uninsured. — (Press Association.)