NEWS IN BRIEF.
Herald Summary to-morrow. The 'Frisco mail leaves on Saturday. The s.s. Moura arrives from the South to-day. The Hauroto arrived from the Islands yesterday. Yesterday the s.s. Rotomahan?. left Sydney for Auckland. The Waipawa County Council has an overdraft of £8090. Small consignments of this season's wool are arriving in Wellington from the Wairarapa. Some splendid catches were made by anglers in several Hawke's Bay streams last week. It is expected that the removal of the stock tax will reduce the price of meat in Melbourne. A Napier paper suggests the alteration of the title of the Farmers' Union to that of the "Colonists' Union." A miner named G. Buchanan was killed through the breaking of a bucket chain at the Golden Gate United mine, Croydon, Queensland. A proposal for the establishment of a Government clothing factory has met with the favourable consideration of the Ministry of New South Wales. A shearer named Joseph Maekey, 34. single, committed suicide at Broken Hill Hospital on October 3 by cutting his throat with a piece of glass. Wreckage of a boat has been washed ashore between Reran Point and Penguin Point (West Australia). There were 96 pensions granted at Gisborne during the last financial year, the amount paid being £1634. A Mrs. McFeat, of Gawler (South Australia), lias been suffocated in bed through the bed clothes taking fire. A widow named Margaret Spalding was found dead in a bedroom in a Hunter-street-(Sydney) boardinghouse, last week. The gold yield of New South Wales for September was 30,076 crude ounces, value £101,924, compared with 25,202 ounces for the same month last year. The dry weather is making itself felt in the Cheviot district, and unless rain comes very soon matters will become serious. Already feed is getting scarce, and water tanks are giving out.. Of the three colonies which ship butter to the Mother Country, New Zealand was the only one last year which showed an increase as well as a steady growth in the past five years. The removal of the reef which renders the entrance to the Clarence River, New South Wales, specially dangerous, has been authorised, lout before this work is undertaken the breakwaters are to be conatructed.
The Stock Department of Queensland is importing 300,000 seals, to be attached to meat exported from that State. The seals consist of small lead pieces, with the letters " Q.G." on one side, and a number on the other. For the four weeks ended October 7 there •were 142,1081b milk received at the Parkvale factory, yielding 5379.141b of butterfat. The average test was 3.79, and the e.tlvance at 6d per lb of butter-fat amounts to £134 9s 7d.
It may not be generally known that there is a Seddon Park in the Mercury Bay district, but such is the case, the name having cropped up in a letter before the Auckland Education Board yesterday. Evidently a loyal subject. The new classification of the West Australian railway men, other than enginedrivers, firemen, and cleaners, which has just been issued, has not given satisfaction. The men claim that the classification is teeming with errors. Complaints are general all over the Wyndham district (Otago) of the great scarcity of feed. It is stated that there is not "a nibble to be seen anywhere. The growth lias been retarded by the unwonted hail and snowstorms recently experienced. A unique specimen of a carved portion of the prow of a war canoe, considered by Captain Hutton to be the finest piece of Maori carving of its kind in existence, has just been secured for the Canterbury Mnseum, having been obtained in Auckland.
Poverty Bay farmers are busy preparing their ground for maize-planting, "ai d a large quantity of that cereal will be sown this season, in spite of the gloomy outlook occasioned by the Federal tariff. Other crops planted earlier are making good progress. The past few days have been utilised (savs the Gore Standard) to the fullest extent by farmers in sowing oats, which the wet weather has retarded a great deal. In many places, however, the ground is much too wet to allow sowing to be prosecuted, and tie harvest next year will of a certainty be late.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11787, 17 October 1901, Page 6
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