NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13095, 7 February 1906, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

.• -K' ii;." HfcRAiD Summary. ~• j i' v Navua- arrived from Fiji. 'Frisco mail leaves Friday.' Ij. - -Manuka left for the South. Kaituna left for West port. ||| Ayrshire due from Britain and Australia. \ The overdraft of the Timaru Borough Council now stand-* at £4700. %':- - The residents of • Stewart Island contem- ;■ ,v- plate the formation of an esplanade. Some of the oat crops in the Masterton district are estimated to yield 80 bushels to " - the acre. • During the past month the Waitaki Coun- < ty Council has received 79,000 birds' eggs, for which it has paid the sum of £63 14s ||:|9d;f ■;;;'; ■■■.■.-■* -.';.,;. : . '-■ The ratepayers of Taihape, Taranaki, have :: decided to form a .borough, with an area of ' two square miles and a" population of about 1500. . . ■ -, ; • ' ■ Up to the present the Ashburton' County ■Council lias purchased 246,000 birds' eggs and heads, and has paid out £246' to small boys and other collectors. , ' . '"•''■■ ••' Additional machinery"' was ; recently pur- ■: chased for the cunning factory at Teviot, Otago, and the preserving capacity of the » "factory has been increased accordingly. : The price of land still keeps up in South '";:.. Canterbury. A 140-acre farm in the Kings- '• '■./' down district, five miles from Timaru, was ;•';•; sold last week at the rate of £20 per acre. • At its last meeting the Timaru Borough 1 Council discussed a proposal to erect work- .'•.'■' men's homes in Timaiu. the work to be un- .> dertaken ,by the municipality. After fully .'"' discussing th<» matter the proposal was re- ;:• jected, only three councillors voting for it. piF^Tn-his remarks on consumption, made at ■ ' the last .Hospital Board meeting, the chairKinan- (Mr. John McLcod) intended to say ' that'= the proportion of deaths front phthisis Sbrig the working classes was one ... five, ■ ■ Bt.that of the working elates one m " \v;as suffering, from the disease. J