NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15558, 16 March 1914, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

'A motor fire-engine has been acquired by the Mount Albert Volunteer Fire Brigade from the City Fire Board..

A meeting of delegates from different parts of the Stratford electorate was held at Stratford on Friday night. Mr. W. H. Hawkins, ex-M.P., was unanimously selected as the Opposition candidate at the coining election.

A man, arrested for drunkenness on Friday evening, had £50 18s in his possession. The magistrate before whom he was brought on Saturday said that he was lucky to fall into the hands of the police, and fined him ss.

Several cases of typhoid fever are now being treated at the Taumarunui Hospital. Nearly all are from outside districts (telegraphs our own correspondent). The health of the borough has been remarkably good, oven during the long spell of hot weather.

Subscriptions received on Saturday towards the hospital motor ambulance fund were as follows: —Messrs. Neumegen and Mowlem, £1 Is; G. Elliot, £1 Is; M. R. Hallett, £1; and Master Wallace Harbutt, 2s 6d. The fund now amounts to £207 17».

Several bottles of whiskv and brandy •verp commandeered by police officers at a small shop in Hobson Street yesterday. The raid was made by Senior-Sergeant Rutledgc and Constable ('. A. Lambert, and the woman who conducted the business will be charged with selling liquor .without a license.

The top portion of the front wall of brick shop premises in course of erection in Queen Street, Onehunga, collapsed parly on Friday evening. Fortunately, no one was struck by the falling bricks, but some slight damage was done to an adjoining verandah and to the lower portion of the building from which the bricks fell.