NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12909, 4 July 1905, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

iffiOTQßii left for Sydney.. - ■- : Niwaru ■ far ■ London to-day. , American Independence; Day. Zealandia for the South to-day. > To'irioana'due-from-London and Australia.. .. . - 'r-, ,'. ' i ■ The Manawatu A. and P. Association jfeas now a membership of 1600. The Mangaweka Settler is responsible 'for the statement that a big no-license vote •will be cast by the workers on the Main. ' Trunk railway. .• t ■;;; = : The North Otago Times states that the recent hot wind has 'nearly denuded the Kakanui Ranges of snow—a rare thing in - the middle of winter. _ . A peculiar fact is that 1905 began on Sunday, -' and will end on Sunday, and therefore has 53 Sundays. This will not .occur again .in 110 years. ... The Invercargill Borough Council sat in committee for a considerable time the other night, discussing a confidential communication, which invited the Council to give the writer and his company a six or 12 months' option of installing an electric tram service in that city. The matter was adjourned for a fortnight. ' ■ • " Information from the Minister for Public Works has reached Invercargill, to the effect that a start will shortly. be made with the extension of the Seaward Bush line, and Parliament will be asked to make some provision for the resumption of construction works on the OrepukiWaiau line westward' of Waihoaka. We are requested to state that Mrs. Pritt's name was inadvertently omitted from the list of names of the new committee of the Ladies' Benevolent. Society, and from the annual report. Mrs. Pritt has for about 20 years conducted a sewing meeting, which makes up clothes for the poor, and Mrs. Pritt's valuable services are much appreciated by the Benevolent Society. The Hudda-rt-Parker steamer Victoria left ' for Sydney last evening, taking a number of passengers in both classes, and a large " and valuable cargo. Included in the shipments from Auckland were four boxes and 24 bars bullion, shipped by .the Waihi Gold' Mining Company to London; 447 cases and -• 54 sacks kauri gum for London and the ' Continent, and large lines of flax, tiwber, aides, etc.. for Australian ports,.