NEWS IN BRIEF:

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15383, 19 August 1913, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF:

Over 500 entries have been received for the Gisborne competitions.

. A special session of synod will be held to-morrow for the election of a bishop of the Auckland see.

Reporting at Waihi, at eight o'clock yesterday morning, Mr. H. B. Devereux, F.R.M.S., states that . easterly and northerly winds, increasing, may be expected, and also heavy rains, by Tuesday night. The rivers are rising.

When the Otago junior football representatives were plaving at Lancaster Park, Christchurcb, on afternoon, a thief went through the rooms they occupied - at- the hotel and took whatever money had been left in their clothes. > The seal which ; was recently captured at Waihi was purchased by the proprietor of the Onehunga Zoo.' It was placed in a box and consigned to its new home by train, but when it reached Onehunga last evening it was found that the animal was dead. . • An eld man named Patrick Hogan, who was admitted to the D lined in Hospital on August 8 suffering from a fracture of the leg, sustained through a rafter falling on him from a building in .the . course of "demolition, died in the institution yester- ; day.—(Press Association.) During the week ending August 9, the quantity of coal shipped at Newcastle for places beyond the State totalled 115,532 tons, ;as compared with 88,284 tons for the corresponding week last year. The proportions were: Commonwealth and New Zealand ports 67,300 tons, foreign ports 48,232 tons. ;