NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13147, 9 April 1906, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

; Suez mail arrived. * 'Frisco mail leaves Friday. ' ' Tarawera left for the South. •' Zealandia arrived from Sydney. M • Victoria for Sydney this evening. The Taviuni is due from the Eastern . Pacific on Wednesday. fc • The rope-works are being pushed on at Foxton, and should soon be in full swing. It is stated that building is brisk at *• Fox'uon. All the builders have a good deal fV ■ of work in hand. A separate banking account will be opened si by the Wellington Corporation in connec- ' tion with the city tramways. ■ Two Palme sportsmen are reported ■ ■to have secured 31 trout as the result of a 111 day's fishing at Shannon last week. - The sum of £3414 was paid by the secre- ! tary (Mr. Percival) to the milk suppliers K" to the Inglewood (Taranaki) factory for the 5 month of March. Policy-holders in the Government Life * • Insurance Department will be glad to learn. that bonus certificates will be issued during the next few weeks. w The Wangar.ui Fiesziug Woiks are in full i swing a,I present", this being the busiest month. Between 1500 and 1600 sheep are >* being put through per day. fc* - ' The Colonial Secretary is offering prizes v ■ r for the best designs for an official coat-of-aiuis for the colony of New Zealand. The : . prizes are £20 and' l £15. : An ex-resident of Masterton writes from ' Mildura, in Australia, to at friend in Master - ten, stating that a. recent gale destroyed ■ £80,000 worth of' fruit in one night. « The Pahiatua. Borough Council, as the result of a visit from a deputation, lias appointed a committee to co-operate in a project to establish technical classes in _ Paihiatua. The registration of the Wellington Master |-z Hairdressers and Tobacconists' Industrial Union of Employers, and of the Wellington Freezers' Industrial Union of Workers lus ■ been can coiled. A notification in the Gazette prohibits the introduction into the colony of any fruit infected with apple-scab or black spot, or any tomatoes or potatoes infected with the Irish blight or late blight. The other day Mr. Branford, Maitai, Nelson, lost three cows, their mortality being caused by the animals eating the overhanging leaves of the vew trees in the paddocks and on the road" With reference to the reported discovery of gold near Galatea, several Gisborne residents who lnvr travelled through that district have always maintained that there were good indication- of gold there. Should ]>ermission to go on native land be obtained, .several prospecting parties will, it is understood, go from the Poverty Bay district. Daring the seven months ending on March 31 last, the -West Coast Refrigerating Company, Pa tea has shipped 103,458 boxes of butter, valued at £250,015, and during the months of December, January, February, and March the company shipped 17,823 boxes of cheese, of the approximate value of j £38,959. The Wellington magistrate thus addressed |§ : an unfortunate whom he had to sentence as ■ ,a stowaway: —If you keep straight and steady, you will get plenty of work. We ' are not vindictive like they are in Sydney. If you went there from here they would M "ive yon three months without the option . of a fine." f During March 214 cattle, 549 sheep. 123 i"; lambs, 126 pigs and 30 calves were slaughm t«red of the New Plvmouih abattoir. 'the m fees totalled £125 "ss. The condemned m p^fc" : «e'rc foul caul" ami two pigs, whicii t~ were affected by tube:vuloM*. The cattle £ot eSp'iji included 23 cows, one ox, 25 bvto,. ® dv - Cs *' BmbWIII .