NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15566, 25 March 1914, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The annual meeting of tho Pakuranga Hunt will le held 011 April 5. Five men and two women occupied the polico cells last night, insooriety being the principal offence. A short, sharp earthquake shock was felt at Masterton at 12.15 yesterday mornins,.—(Press Association.) The R.M.S. Moana is due at Wellington to-morrow morning from San Francisco er d way ports, with European, American, an.l Canadian mails. The usual monthly meeting of the Auckland and Suburban Drainage Board has been postponed from to-nighl to a date to be fixed next week. Constable L. Shearman, of the witter police, has been transferred to Te Kmti, and Constable R. Adams, also of the water police, has been transferred to the Thanes district. The members of the Northern Wairoi 1 A. and P. Association by means of a work bee have perfected improvements to t-1 eir show ground, and have completed the metalling of the cattle pens. The annual ■•■ollection in aid of the Napier Hospital has produced up to the present £424 10s, and there are still a number of outside contributions to come in.—(Press Association.) A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by David Robertson, storekeeper, of Clovedon, trading as' "Robertson Brothers." The first meeting of creditors will be held on March 31, at 2.30 p.m. An unoccupied house of seven rooms at Inland Bay, Wellington, owne(J by Larney Bros., of Te Aroha, was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. The house was insured for £600 in the Alliance Company. —(Press Association.) During the past few years a large quantity of white pine from, the Waimarino mills hac been sent, to Australia. In 1912 the mills under the direction of the Rangitikei Sawraillers' Association exported 2,600,000 super, feet of white pine and 2,000,000 super, feet in 1913. The first really extensive attempt to past orally settle gum land territory is ' being made • with an area of 30,000 acres lying between Dargaville and the West " Coast.' The block some 30 years ago was acquired by Mr. Tinne for 5s per acre, and up to the present has been the leading guinfield in North Auckland. The New Zealand Dairy Association, Ltd., paid out .to .its suppliers 011 Saturday last the sum of £43,357' 7s 6d. This covered* 864,484i1b of butter-fat supplied during the month of February. The amount of butter-fat received during the corresponding - month of last year was 869,751-iib; thus the increase for the month was 104,751 Jib Supplies, of cream to the district Hitter factory are quite equal to expectations, for, in most parts of the county there is plenty of green pasturage (writes our Northern Wairoa. correspondent). Those- who have sown paspalum are now reaping the fruits of. their labours, and are this month receiving' lid per lb for butter-fat. To that price there will, of course, be added the bonus. Our Cambridge correspondent states that Mr. C. Channing Buckland, who a coup.'.e of years ago imported a herd of pedigree Holstein cattle from Canada, has gone a step further, and ' purchased in the South 22G Ronjney Marsh ewes and six rams, all registered in the New Zealand Romney Marsh Flock Book. Mr. Buckland, whose farm •is situated at Monavale, near Cambridge, intends breeding specially for a class, of-Romney suitable for the Auckland Province, combining a strong constitution and a heavy, dense fleece.