NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12759, 9 January 1905, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

j Suez -mail arrived. Mokoia arrived from Sydney. 'Frisco mail due to-morrow.' Aparima arrived from Calcutta Manuka for Sydney this evening t„- 1 ba »Wtcies in the Wanganui dig. tucyor the year 1904 were 17 £t 19 -or the year 1903. ' "gainst 19 There are, approximately, 3000 justices of m June, as was the case last yea? ; of During a , recent - fortnight over 50 tons thai th/n U r Tf 6S 6a - ys ifc i 6 rumoured vnL « , ] ? efence Department's vessel the Ellen Balance, is to be transferred from Lyttelton to Dunedin. Si «rea no.n ~ Miners at Riverton have } d an ,h„n dance of water for the NWTear* ; f*?2# xi Aver age returns have be-n ob tamed throughout the year virtei^^ ° n J r S . beir 'S Sled at Danne- : yirke m favour of fixing the hours of closing ahops at six p.m. ° on Mondays, To- > days,. Thursdays, and Friday., * The question of whether the military is liable for prosecution for being on Seed premises during prohibited hours is iS' 1 EkeUhun.? Ughb before the at ue'c^ a ,.y^ POrt ' l IX,]ice m llofc find it ' he XL™ m ft.f eil "'S lo ar «*t during very 1 1m? h , ollda - VS ' There has been vet j little drunkenness, and visitors of bad character have been scarce «nWK erS ° f < Chc , rries in Chrwtchurcb and I suburbs report that small birds are im- ™ ° lQ S ? lte of tLe lfl t«ocss of the season, the crop is a good one. the fund started in Nelson with the f J hn ni ,f' a f " S SUffident ,nonc V tO build a hospital for consumptive* has reached Is iSL 0t , a 5° ut 500, aud further money is expected from the out-districts Hie Creytown correspondent of the Wei- i rarapa Leader says the bumble bees have completely ruined the bean crop in that district, lhe bees attack the flow*™, piercing holes through the bloom and killmg the bean. An Ashbiirton farmer had a narrow S escape from being run over bv the express i torn the south the other night. The ponv , he was driving took fright and stopped \ dead on the crossing, and was onlv induced I to leave the line when the en sine was a S few yards off. All the space available for butter in - the Gothic which left Wellington for Lou- > don last Thursday, was filled up, and a ; considerable quantity of coastal transhipments was snufe out. The Gothic's ship- -.j ment, amounting to about. 50.000 boxes, is i a record quantity sent uwav in one bottom. _ Dull times are being experienced in the '? iron foundry business in Wellington at the ■ present time. Mr. W. Cable, head of the :. iirnbof Cable and Co., states that trade is worse than for some years past. Three or lour months ago he'had nearly twice the immoer of workmen in his employ that he | now has. ' \ The Ashburton Guardian reports that j soma daring robberies have been committed at Western-eld. Five bales of wool were ,;] taken from Westerfield railway station. three bales from another siding in tl.s vicinity, and one bale from a shed belong- - : ing to a settler in the district. The branded bales were left behind, and : ' empty bales taken to rebalo the wool. ?