NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12544, 11 April 1904, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

•Frisco mail due. : : " * Talune left for tie South. Zealaiuihv from Sydney to-night. Westralia for Sydney this evening. ifimiro for London direct this week. Melanesian Mission yacht left for the Islands. ; ,-* - : The Taviuni is due from the Eastern Pacific on Thursday. . During March the Department of Labour assisted 627 "unemployed" to obtain work. The Wanganui municipality made a profit of £4875 from its gasworks during last year. The capital value of the borough of £>ew ■.Plymouth has increased by £90,000 during last year. A poll is to be taken in the Borough of Hamilton on a proposal to abolish the system of rating on unimproved values. There is every probability of Messrs. J. •Nathan and Co'., Limited, erecting a factory for the production of dried milk at SBnnnythorpe. i The fly pest is infesting many of the citrus fruit orchards in the Windsor district, New South Wales, and has already wrought much damage. The estimate of the damage done by floods in early March in the Bruce County, Otago, so far as roads are concerned, is »et down by the engineer at £808. The Government has agreed to advance the Wellington Education Board against this year's ordinary building grant £350 towards the extension of the Shannon school. • _-. The South Australian Minister for Education stated that every Australian approved the action of the civic authorities in silencing a man (Dowie) who dared to asperse the King. The steamship Cromarty, which has arrived at Sydney from Ocean Island, brought the intelligence that the stranded German steamship Elba had entirely disappeared into deep water. .- The White Star liner Medio left Hobarfc on March 31, with 45,509 cases of apples for London. Thirteen more steamers are to call at Hobart during the season for fruit, and 14 have already been despatched. Mr. H. Ferguson, inspector of factories, reminds employers of factory hands that according to the Act. all female hands and boys under 18 must be paid for Good Friday and Easter Monday, although they did not work on those days. • From July 1 to March 30. 14,855 tons of hatter were" shipped from Victoria to the United Kingdom, South Africa, inter-State, and Eastern ports.. It is expected that oy June 30 previous Victorian records in butter shipment will be broken. ( The dead body of the Rev. R. H. Bailey, the Methodist "minister in charge of the Wodosga circuit. New South Wales, has been found in a waterhole, about a-qua iter of a nsile from his residence. His death is supposed to have been accidentally caused, as his horse and sulky were also found in the water. • There was a large number of visitors at Dawson's Falls mountain house during Easter week, which brought the total for the season to date to 1200. This beats all previous records, and is an indication of the increasing popularity of Taranaki's summer resort. The house is to be kept open during April, and with fine weather many more visitors are expected. % Returns which have been compiled by the New South Wales Railway Commissioners show that the total quantity of wheat received at Darling Harbour since December 1 last amounts to 1,677,490 bags. representing 7,500,000 bushels. It is stated that about 1,000,000 bags, or 4.500.000 bushels, are stowed at various stations in the wheat-growing districts, thus bringing up the total to about 12,000,000 bushels.