NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12956, 28 August 1905, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

"Frisco mail due. Vienna arrived from Fiji. Tarawera left for the South. - Zealandia arrived from Sydney. Victoria for Sydney this evening. Potatoes have been selling at 18s per bag in Waipawa recently. In Palmerstou the price has been 17s 6d per sack. There have been 200 men put on the railway works at Ohakune, above Utiku, 83 miles north-east of Wanganui, for formation and clearing operations. The total amount of butter manufactured by the New Zealand Fanners' Dairy Union last year was 1008 tons 15cwt 2qr 231b. An average price of 8d to Bidl was paid for the butter-fat. ■ A large area is being cultivated at the _ Wolloiigbar Experimental Farm,. New South Wales, with a view to giving a comprehensive trial to the Rhodes grass, which is looked upon with great favour in the district. ' ; The dividends paid by the West Australian gold mining companies for the first seven months of this year amounted to £1,384,707, making a total distribution from the inception of the State'* gold industry to date of £12,956,922. A grant of £700 has been made to the Marlborough Education Board for the erection of a building in brick for the technical school classes in cookery and woodwork at Blenheim. A grant of £200 has also been made for equipment. There are now five patients in the con- • suniptive annexe at the New Plymouth Hospital. Everything is now in smooth working order, and patients and staff alike are loud in their praises of the completeness with which the artuigemeiits have been carried out. -. On August, 12 a number of forged banknotes showing a face value of £10, on the West Australian Bank, were put into circulation at Perth. The detectives on the 14th ; arrested a man who gave the name of William "Irwau. In his'possession were found ' £93, and three banknotes of £10 each.V

Two cases of valuable horses having "been shot white grazing in paddocks near Bathurst, N.S.W., have been reported to the police. At Perth Mr. Thomas Brown : had a Valuable draught horse killed, it [. . having been shot through the neck with a to***' pea rifle. Mr. J. Joyce had his racehorse Nunquis killed, the bullet passing through the neck and shoulder.. In this case it is . supposed that the bullet had been fired from a muzzle-loader. Complaints are being made in the Mo- ; long district.. N.S.W., regarding the rank nature of the growth of .some of the wheat crops, and fears are entertained that sumo of them will lie over badly and be destroyed. Around Ciinowindra. stock has ■'■■:.■:■■'-. been put in! upon the fields, and farmers are taking the stock in for nothing. There is likely to be a lot of msilagc made throughout the district this year, as all crops which: show a disposition to lie over will be stacked or pitted.

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