NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15262, 28 March 1913, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

>v;<s?v ;/• 'C' •Dm Public Service Art will came into iail operation on April L Eigfai, osa minor) charger The Poultry Conference -concluded yes* terday, and today the delegate# leave for H.M.S. New Zealand will # arrive at AnckLuuL on 2 April 29, and will leave .-tibia port on May 11. - . The extra axpreaa toe the South, leaving ! Auckland at .10,; p.m., will run night sfod ■;&* : i Snnda/ night, bujfc after that wfll , withdrawn, 'k •.* •' V; _ Thepolioe hare sot yet traced Mis* Heron, who disappeared from Otalrahn a abort time ago. Noword has been received, fcom the imiMing- one. - A fire, which was quickly suppressed'by the Cftj Fir© Brigade, bicoke out in the Kauri Timber Company's premises at 6.66 p.®. Veiy little, damage was At last a|ghl's meeitlng of the Birkenhead Council the secretary of the Harbour Board wrote, intimating thit the «*#>'» to purchase; the; reclaim6dj»nd at the head of the Birkenhead Wharf - -had : been i considered : - by; the Board. ' which had resolved not to sell the " ; C A large number of Wellington, shopkeepc|^:.who; favour the . Wednesday halfholiday have signed a declaration to op--pose- tike movement inaugurated by the Trades Con noil to secure a universal Batorday .fcalf-Jwliday,, w .As ft result there is likely /to be a keen «i,rapaign over the question.—r(Presa Association-) While Constable Morton was patrolling his heat: in Victorias Street at half-past twelve ; o'clock this morning he noticed that fittoke was issuing from a boarding- : house just Off .Queen Street. '■ He immediately gave the- alarm to the ■ City Fire Brigade, The brig^e-was smartly m attendance, and extinguished the incipient ! outbreak by carrying out the burning ! blankets. . - ... ~ / The inquiry into the administration of St. Helena Home was concluded yesterday. The quantity of coal shipped at Newcastle during the week ending March 15 for places beyond the State, was; 92,472 tons, 8394 tons in excess of the quantity shipped for the corresponding period last year. Of the total 55,590 tona were for Commonwealth . and New ' Zealand ports, §nd 36,882 for foreign ports. "