NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 12661, 15 September 1904, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

MANAPOtBi due from the Islands. The Moana left Sydney for Auckland yesterday. .„,,., About 100,000 cows are being milked daily in the Taranaki province. Larrikin outrages are becoming of almost nightly occurrence in Melbourne. A Waitara settler has a ' monstrosity in the form of a pig with two heads and three eyes. There has been increased activity in Sydney lately in connection with the Island It is stated that Chinese are taking the places of kanakas on the Queensland sugar plantations. It will cost fully £500 to repair the damage done to Hawke's Bay schools by the earthquake last month. Owing to the rise in the price of shsep Invercargili butchers have decided to raise $he price of mutton to the consumers. A constable was set upon by three men in Melbourne the other night, and murderously kicked and beaten about the head and body. While temporarily insane, Charles D. Jaeobson committed suicide nsai Hcbart, by inflicting four gashes in his throat with a iienknife. . The Melbourne Chamber of Manufactures has passed a resolution to the effect that compulsory arbitration was not a measure calculated to advance Australian industry. An effort is being made to establish a fanners' club at Hastings, Hawke's Bay. It is proposed to purchase laud and e*recfc a dubroom. The scooping cut of Lake Ellesmcre, Canterbury, has been successfully completed, »nd a steady outflow seawards through a sixchain artificial canal has been effected. During the progress of the fire at Messrs. Wardelf Brothers' premises, Christchurch, last week, 135,000 gallons of water, weighin* 650 tons, were poured on the flames. The Lucas Cave, which was recently discovered at Jenolan Oaves, New South Wales, has been examined, and found to be very beautiful. , ,-.. A consignment oi butter from the Eltham Co-operative Dairy Factory, which left the | colony by the Gothic towards the end of , July.'fetched 100s. I - A farm containing between 300 and 400 ! acres in the Rangitata (South Island) dis- j trict has just been sold at £24 10s per acre, -«*hicb is probably the highest price that has been given for land in that district. Recently Alfred Ernest Cam, a farmer in the Cran bourne district, Victoria, was returning home from shooting rabbits, when fcw gun exploded, and the bullet, entering his neck, ceased instant death. Hays a Taranaki dairyman : —Just at pre- i sent, after a long spell, all the talk is of «ows. We break cows in, we milk cows, <vv are slaves to and live for cows, we eat cows we curse cows, and sometimes kick news, and we dream of cows. A settler who drove into Gisborne the m.\n day says the roads are in an awful condition, being practically one sea of mud from Motu to Poututn (25 miles). At places th* shafts (4 his vehicle touched the mud. A Wyndh*.m (Otago) resident, Mr. Jerenjjiah Murphy, while travelling through Engitt*d on his "way to Ireland, states that on the way lie heard {arums explaining of a v*ry had year. Cattle were double the price they were in New &ealanu, while sheep Fere £2 p=r head. At a sale of dairy cows at Kiritaki, nea* Divnr-sviike, prices ranged from £14 10s to £9, the average lor those sold being about £10 10*. 'two-year-old heifers went as bijh »7 £9, the lowest price being £7. Weaners n»ade £2 3s, and 15 months' heifers £5. Wanyauui charges the Government with restricting enterprise. It was stated at the Chamber oi Commerce meeting that a Wanganui raw had lately expended £700 on a steam trawler for work outside the heads. The Collector of Customs, however, would aot allow the boat, outside unless she had a certificated deep-wi* engineer, and the owner ■was thus completely blocked. 'ih<a tunnel on the Uisborne-Karaka railway liae will b» finished this month. All tLa i'j-idc work ha« been finished except the liritg, aud for some time a number oi those men who had been engaged ob the tunnel have been agisting in the ballasting work. It i? anticipated that the Use will be opened for goods traffic by the beginning of Decernber.