NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13028, 20 November 1905, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

■ "Frisco mail due. |&y S; Tarawera left for the South. ' Zealandia from Sydney to-day. .Victoria for Sydney this evening. ■ Marere left for the South and London. " The Taviuni is due from the Eastern Pacific on Thursday. The Napier Telegraph of Monday last says:— prevailing wind is not by any means , " tempered to the : shorn lamb -..' or sheep for that matter. At Clive yesterday Borne 40 sheep were found dead, and the mortality - throughout the/district is con-. ■.':■'•■■.■.,■ siderable. ' The chief officer of the Arahura, giving, evidence before the Arbitration Court at y Wellington last week, said that a deckhand wanteof to claim overtime for picking up two sacks of potatoes that had fallen off the hatch, and which would otherwise have ' gone overboard. Ten years ago New Zealand exported nearly 200,0001b of apples. We have not 1 come anywhere near:- that since. , In fact, the export of apples during the past five years has hot ' been nearly half, either m ' weight or value, of that for the previous quinquennial period. •■*-, j While engaged in spring threshing at Seaview the other day (says the Ashburton Mail), a machine partv discovered a weasel in a stack, of wheat. Strange to say, the stack was otherwise free from vermin, although the remaining stacks of the group. were literally swarming with mice. The evidence which was taken down by the shorthand writers employed in connection with the recent Royal Commission on the Colonal Audit Department. covers 652 typewritten .pages of "foolscap-folio" size. The number of " folios " of 72 words each is t, and the number of words 234,000. About three years aero Mrs. M. A. Hogso, ' '"of the Glebe, Walcha (N.S.W.), was thrown from, a sulky and seriously injured. A lump afterwards formed on her forehead. :• This was recently attended ■to by Dr. Stephens, when a large stone was cutaway. • : This had remained buried in the flesh for . over three years. . A Bill will shortly be introduced in the State Parliament for the amendment of the New South Wales Medical Act. The measure, which is now being drafted, is designed to remove certain anomalies which give greater advantages in the State to medical men coming from foreign countries than those countries give to Australian-ti-ained doctors, and to effect other improve■oS ■;■;/. ments in the law. ;' ■