NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13030, 22 November 1905, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

'Fiasco mail arrived. ..Ventura for Sydney to-day. . Zealandia left for the South. Wanaka from the South to-day. Melanesia!* mission steamer arrived from tiie Islands. The Ventura brought a large shipment of . "> potatoes from San Francisco. A' large number of settlers .in the Masterton district have finished shearing, and have • already despatched their wool to Wellingiliytfm:-:'. ■ : The New Zealand Shipping Company have been awarded a diploma and a gold medal for their exhibit at the Naval and Fisheries Exhibition at Earl's Court. The quantity of sugar exported from Queensland during the month of October was 25,799 J tons, and; the total sugar exV ported this season to November 10 is 87,909 tons.

, The West Australian State batteries to November , 10 have Crushed 288,579 tons' for •iff 337,3590z gold, .valued. at £1.249,6*90;. and ; v,. ' the cyanide plants have treated .133,258 tons |. for a return valued r,t £124,827. ?: > It is stated that a Kumeroa (Hawke's Bay) settler, becoming frightened: that his .Vi patch of potatoes had been attacked by blight, sprayed them with sheep dip, with - 'the result that the tops were all burned off. _ \n extensive robbery is reported as liav[f\;; . iilg occurred at Menzies' Hotel, Melbourne, 'irf'f ' Mrs. - ,T. McEvoy, who was staying at the establisment, stating that £300 worth of ft jewellery had been stolen from a box in her room. igP'Ainong the dogs shown at the Wanganui ■j Show was a fine Austrian wolfhound, SS&v owned by Mr. Woodley Prouse. The aniS; . mal, which is just six months old, promises • to be' of great size. : The breed is very rare ®&/in New Zealand. v,}'.• • . Evidence of •' the activity oi * building operations at Gisborne is afforded' by the large amount of timber passing over the 7" - wharf. During the past four weeks no Jess , than 684,878 ft has been imported, Ml|*">t including posts and house-blocks. r" Recently Darcy Adam,' 11 years, was playing at cricket at Longreach (Q.), when a ball h's> bowled by Keith Heyes, struck him in , the , : forehead. Adam fell, and nover spoke r: 1 - -'again. An examination showed his neck was broken. The boy's mother witnessed the accident, and thought the boy was shamming. ' •: &f»|.piyThere were 53 million pounds weight of / flutter produced in New South -Wales last g ;; year, against 38 million pounds during the preceding year, and just on 30 millions, the year earlier.. The increase is almost phenomenal. The value of the butter exported from V the State last year' was £839,000. The previous record was held by 1901, when £446,102 worth was shipped away. . The money subscribed by the members of , tho Wellington Garibaldi Club for the entertainment of the crew of the Italian warship Calabria has been diverted, and • will pMnowv be forwarded for the relief of those f. who ' suffered so severely by the recent : . • earthquakes experienced in Calabria. It is understood that a similar procedure will be gi-?^ followed by the Italian residents of Sydney.