NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11679, 14 June 1901, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

HksaLD Summary. '. Waihora arrived from the South. [ A Suez mail arrives from Sydney to-mor- ' row. It has been decided to establish a dairy factory at Timaru. The' warship St. George will be open to i the public this afternoon. An important gold discovery is reported J from Mathinna (Tasmania). i A fall of 18in of rain was recorded in > j the New Hebrides in 12 hours. ; The mail steamer Sierra is expected to > arrive from Sydney this evening. • i A large number of visitors inspected the . i Royal yacht Ophir yesterday afternoon. I Owing to the prevalence of scarlatina in j the district the Marlon school is closed. Country visitors, who have been attending i the festivities in town, arc now returning home. The. Sydney Labour Council is anxious that union rates of wages should be paid on the railways. Technical instruction will be made a feature by the present Government of New South Wales. A block of 997 acres of land in the Wai- | nui-oru survey district has been set apart as ! a State forest. ! Want of rain is rendering the outlook ; serious for the next harvest round Bcrrigan ■ j New South Wales. " ] I A decorator named Ambrose Bowden was i burned to death in his residence at Wooloo- ! win (Queensland), on June 2. . j A proclamation appears in the Governmerit Gazette of May 30 defining the boun-j daries of the harbour of Mokau. | The Napier Borough Council has nega- : tived a motion that the honorarium of the • Mayor for the current term should be £200. j | The price of kerosene in Wellington has i ! been raised to lis per case, and 5s 9d per j : tin. In Palmerston it is sold at 8s 6d per j case, and 4s 9d per tin. ; j The fruitgrowing industry in the Mo til a ' j district is assuming large proportions. Dur- j ■ ing last week the orchard ists there imported I about £1500 worth of trees. |. ' At the Mayors reception on Wednesday, ] Hardey's Band was stationed in the gallery of the library, and played a number of selections during the evening. A fine of £1 10s and £4 8s costs was imposed at Feiid-ing on a defendant named j i Hewitt for keeping six pigs shut up in the j I saleyards at Waibuna until they died of star-1 i vat-ion, j j The gold returns from the Auckland die- j I trict mines for the month of May have i ' reached the record total of £61,743, an ex- ! ■ cess of £1830 over any previous four-weekly i ' output in the history of the Northern goldi fields. j " Bad and doubtful" debts clue to the MasI terton Agricultural and Pastoral AssociaI tion, in the shape of long-standing members' subscriptions, have been " written off," the total amount thus disposed of amounting to £100 10s. i The new robes of the Mayor of Wellingj ton comprise a cloak or gown, similar to a i clerical gown, of black ottoman silk, richly trimmed with ermine, and lined with white glace siik. The headgear consists of the ordinary " belltopper." I During the past month the truant, inspecj tor of 'Am Wellington Education Board sumi maned 33 parents and guardians to the I Magistrate's Court for neglecting to send i j their children to school. The fines and ; costs amounted to £21. | It is stated that the late Mr. Robert i Pharazyn's estate, at Nukumaru, has been | ' purchased by a Wangamii syndicate, at , ' about £50,000. The property comprises . ; some 5000 acres, and the new owners intend I , to offer the land to the public in small allot--1 ments.