NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12819, 20 March 1905, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tap.aw£ba left for the South. j Mokoia arrived from Sydney. J Manuka for Sydney this evening.. | Taviuni arrived from the Eastern Pacific. I Star of New Zealand left for London via the South. - Carrier-pigeons have of late been frequently found shot round about Lyttelton. . Harvesting is in full swing in the Mataura district, and one or two farmers have their oats in the stock. ' Complaints are at present being ma/1 ft of the wanton shooting of ducks on the Waikaia Flat, Southland. A poll on the question of rating on unimproved values is to be , held at Timaru in about six weeks' time. Complaints are being made in Gore of the pilfering of fruit during transit on the railway to that town from Dunedin. Very little linseed has been grown at Drummond, Otago, this year. At present two, fine -paddocks are about ready "for harvesting. During the past month certificates have been given for the erection, of six new buildings and 10 additions in the borough of Timaru. Crops on Edeiidale and Waimumu land, in tho Mataura district, are reported to be turning out beyond all expectations, heavy returns being the rule. Mr. J. C. Blackmore, Government penologist, is at present in the South Canterbury district investigating the disease known as the eel-v/orm in the tomato crop. The season for shooting fallow deer in Otago commenced on Mach 15 and ends oil April 23. The season for red deer began at the same time and ends on May 31. While in Balclutha. Mr. T. W. Kirk found <»nion beds in several gardens to bp affected with mildew, which, if allowed to go unchecked, will ruin the onion crops. j ' The goods shed at Waipahi, smashed to ' picccs some months ago by a railway collision, is. at last likely to be rebuilt (says tho Clutha Leader), a considerable part of the tiai'jer being on the ground,