NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13114, 1 March 1906, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

• y foKOM.uif for London to-day. . Talune from the South to-day. i&k ; ® 'Frisco mail leaves ? to-morrow. , ' **" — :'<■ Maiiapouri arrived from the Islanos. Manuka duo from Sydney on Sunday. Wanaika arrived from the South. $ The increase in the valuation roll of the IS f; borough of Timaru this year will mean an : ■addition of £2000 to the rate.roll.v ;?•> The 'now infectious diseases hospital at V; Tim am is just about finished. It has cost f "£2186, only ■£65s . lOd be% spent in .. extras." ' j ; The Haweni Star contains* another record for butter-fat, an average per head l'rom 32 ; • cows for the month of December of £1 lis ! ®sjd, at per lb of butter-fat, or 431b of , butter-fat per cow. The King Country Maoris have a bard ! iK"winter below them, as far as their supply j llfgof- potatoes is concerned. The blight- has I swept over the' majority of . the crops, of ] which it has destroyed the greater part, j -,\i and the outlook tor the natives, who depend > ■ on their potato patches,as the chief source j j.y of food, is a poor one. - It. is stated that the shale at present being bagged at Orepuki, Otago, to be.forwarded to Glasgow will lie subjected to anew pro- ,;, cess of extraction recently discovered. ,Should' the operation prove that the oil || can be produced of a quality that will eiv SUM ready sale, there will be no delay in it- again starting the works, which have been lying idle for some years. ii •'£ ■' , . .