NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13094, 6 February 1906, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

fcfoiOTA left for Sydney. Navua due from Fiji. .*' Karamea for London to-day. • Manuka for the South this afternoon. Cape Corso arrived from New York and Australia. Rivcrton fishermen have been making V good hauls of cod. The "Timani Gas Company is to dis- ... continue meter charge.'*. ;; ■: The number of fishing licenses taken out '.'•■ at Dannevirke this season totals 245. During the first 11 months of lust year nearly 26,000 ton* of frozen rabbits were imported ; into England from Australia ■. una New Zealand. . ; Average-milk yields of £1. 15s and £1 ' 17s per cow are reported to have been obtained from ' herds at Edendale, Otago, : ; for a single month. ' ;' '... '■'• At a special meeting of subscribers to the Victorian Seamen's Mission it was decided to amalgamate with the Missions to Seamen in London. - ''•' { • - ' ?** : An envelope received at the Sydney Trea- •..■'• sury contained a slip of paper healing the words, "Conscience money, £3," written m ink, and three Union Bank notes. 'r Tenders were invited oy the Gore . ■ Borough Council recently for £2300 worth of debentures, and no less than £15,000 was thrust forward by eager would-be investors. A girl named Petschel, residing at Dim§j boola, Victoria, .swallowed a peach stone, and became seriously ill, and although a ! . ..doctor made every effort to save her life ;■;.;, she expired. Several trucks of fat lambs, English Lei--cester cross, were sent away from Mata- :'.' mata; recently, for which the owner receivcd 13a 6d.. The lambs were.*. fine level lot, and well worth the price eiven for them.