NEWS IN BRIEF.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 34, 4 November 1907, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF.

[BY TELEGRAPH.—MESS AESpOUTioN.} ■ , Auckland, ;Novomber 2. ' The Auckland customs duties for Obtobc* , totalled £76i-i7G"Gs., an increase"of £11,659 IIS. Sl(. ■ ■- ■••■■• : ■■• '■'■ ' " '; ]••>'} .' About a thousand school cadets proceeded to Pukckoho by train, on Friday til take part in manoeuvres and military exercises by Colonel Lovoday .. . . •.•■■ . :, i ; ■•'.'■ . .'-"'■>■'.■ ■'■"-. ; Christcliurch, November 2. : A .further rise in the price- of iloiiiY.is an. nouncwl, the price now being, i'or:sacks, £14. In the middle of September..the:price was £10 Mis., there being thus an auvanco c of £',\i .IDs. in six woeliS. ...... ..-...' • AliilrCnnturbury ,is. beginning to feel that rain is needed to freshen cereals. , .'J Lambing reports are .very satisfactory. From January 1 to October .'.') l there were 1979 births;..ll)s3,deaths, and Sl7 marriages (IS2; ; ,by• Urn registrar),.in ;t)i.c Christchurch :district.'.. ; J!'or the; same.,period last year the figures- were 17UB, 7-iO,'-7'JS. For October .this f.veaiv the figures were IUS, 113; 73, 17. ■ - : Mr.,. W. ,W.. tSiihsun, who has been. actins as Deputy-liegi.strar and Deputy-Sheriff or the.Supreme Court here during the illness of JMr.,M:..J.'I. ,I'C.O' tois ' )tcn appointed p,ennaupntlj;. to 'those .. ; ..,.■*.. •,.,.! '' . Dunbdin', .November 2. 'I'h'o Dunediu 'Corporation lias, through i "t-lio'JJiiuk of Xew Zealand, njisixl''£2so,oo6 ' iii 4 per cent, dobentu'res,"haying a , currencv twenty-li\;e years, for';,meeting, loans; that . mnturo on March 31. ''' ': ''_. " ' Tho police havo rOceived advicu tlint. a .man named William AVrllcf atteOipted to "comiuiti suicide' at St. , ' Bii'tlniiis;''Giintral Otago, to-day by taking "rough on rats." •Tho man is expected to recover.., : : .. Dunedin,,Novembor 3. Tho Secretary of (be i)uncdilr branch of the [ndop'endcnt Political League has advised that tliifioiiforo'uce, which''wiw'to havo hu'eil held'af'ChristclHirch'next, week, has been jnlt off in consequence of the- inability < of some delegates to get away at present. , .. .j .Stratford,: November 2. An untonantod six-roomed house in.. Aria! Stioot was destroyed by .lire lust night. It was owned by Mr. G. D! Hunter, of Strai:ford, and was insured in the Commoreiai) Union ofiice- for £125. ■-..-,-. ■ . '' " . ,Woodvi!loi'N6vemlJ6r 2. ■A coachhuilder, ■named' Joint -Langford, dropped doad in the bur of the Masonlis Hotel last "evoiiing at about' oiglif' o'cloolc. Up'to tho time of falling ovw luvwas 'talking chcorfully to his companions. "Deceased wan about sixty years'old and had a gro'wu-ui) family living in Wellington.,"' "' .'1