NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13011, 31 October 1905, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

■ ?.&k ■'■■-' '- '■ "' ' »»■ ;■ *F»lsco mail due. ■ Manuka left for Sydney. . Navua for Fiji to-morrow. V Vienna for Newcastle to-morrow. Mok?ia for the South this afternoon. -Taviuni-for the Eastern Pacific to-day. ; Cape Breton arrived from New York and Australia. ' Gold valued at £11,450 was sent to Sydney by the Manuka yesterday.- t ; The severe weather in New South Wales ■is causing serious loss among lambs. % One grazier in the '" Cooma district estimates that he has lost 10 per cent. It has been estimated, reports the Government biologist, that, taking into con- ■•:• sideration .the gardens for small fruits, th<~ glasshouses, and the tomatoes, the value of v the - fruit grown in New Zealand is . con- ! siderably over a millioii sterling per annum. Recently Mr. Richardson, of Obella, New South Wales, was riding over his property, when his horse fell dead, crushing one of the rider's feet .very severely. It was sub- | sequently discovered that the horse had i taken a? phosphorus bait laid for rabbits. While engaged in spring threshing at Seaview on Tuesday (says the Ashburton Mail) » machine party discovered a weasel in a stack of wheat. Strange to say, the stack was - otherwise' free' trom vermin, ; although the remaining stacks of the group were literally swarming with mice. During the month of September the Eltham CJo-ooerativ© Daury Company manufactured 70061b more butter than during the corresponding month last year. The company is at present paying lOd per lb for butter-fat, and the total payment on the 20th iust. will be about £3000. , A, local grower of potatoes, says the Hawera Star, has shown us a few leaves m from his crop, which are spotted with '~ yellow. He thinks it is' a new kind of blight. ! The leaves have been sent to Mr. Kirk, Government biologist, in order that the discolouration may be investigated. On account of a recent fatality on the Seddoa railway works, the Wairau Hospital and Charitable Aid Board has resolved to urge the Public Works Department to inI sure all men employed in this district. The -family of the man who was recently killed u are being assisted by the Board pending the ;V raising of a relief fund. '■> ■ '.'■ ■ .In connection with the experimental shipment of chilled beef which was sent Home : by the Tokomaru some time ago, and which j| turned 'out bad, some surprise is felt locally • (says the Dunedin Star) at the fact that the officer* of the steamer did not" freeze down" ;oh the first sign of taint. They had in}i (tractions to that effect prior to leaving this

Recently Edward Hinks, a young man, : white felling a tree at Fernbill, New South Wale«, was knocked down by the tree, which gave way sooner tlian 'he '■ expected. - The axe he ; was using was ; .' ■truck out of his hand, and lie fell on the ;v upturned blade, inflicting a great gash on one calf. He was conveyed to the Nepean Cottage Hospital and had 22 stitches put in the wound, which \ was Sin long. Lecturing in Melbourne, Miss Lillian , Locke said that things had been left in . , the hands of men for a good many centuries, with very little success. One reason why women should enter politics was because of the disparity between the laws affecting men and women, and anotherthe *, most importantbecause of • the sweating evil, which pressed more heavily upon women and , children than upon men.