NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15407, 16 September 1913, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Some high prices were realised yesterday at the sale of Mr. G. Niccol's pedigree Holstein-Friesian cattle.

All the patierts who have been temporarily accommodated on Motuihi Island have been returned to the Auckland Mental Hospital.

The sum of £6031 6s lid has been awarded in the contractors in the case in connection with the erection of the Seddon Memorial Technical College.

The receipts in connection with the Gtsboroe competitions were £500, and the expenses reached £420, so that the society regards the festival as a financial success.

The. object which was seen floating neat the Calliope Dock on Sunday afternoon, and, which was supposed to be a dead body, proved to be merely a big log of wood.

In the report of the divorce case, Goss v. Goes, 'winch appeared on Saturday, it was that the marriage took place in > 1899. The date should have been given. as 1889.

The condition of Mr. Cyril C. Dunlop, who was injured at the point-to-point racei at Sylvia Park en Saturday, had greatly improved yesterday. It has been ascertained that no bones were broken and that Mr. Dunlop is only badlv bruised.

The quantity of coal shipped at Newcastle during the week ending September 6 for places beyond the State was 110,506' tons,, as compared with 104,869 tons for the corresponding period last year. Of the total 65,430 tons went to Common- j wealth and New Zealand ports, and 45.076 tons to foreign ports. j

Leaking taps in houses at Mount Eden must be repaired. The council is causing everyone to fix water-meters in the houses, and tenders are being called for 1000 positive meters, which register every- drop used or wasted. It is anticipated by the council that 50 meters a month will be disposed of at a nominal cost of between £4 and £5.

Appointed by the Norlhcote Borough Council to submit a comprehensive scheme for the draining of the borough Mr. C. Suggate commenced work yesterday with a view to the preparation of the report. When this is received it is the; intention of the council to promptly place the proposals before the ratepayers and take a poll for 'the amount necessary for the carrying out of the scheme.