NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13170, 7 May 1906, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

<3tjkz' mail arrived/ 'V ■ " ■"; ■■«'-' '■" • Tarawera left for the South. ■- ; -. Zealandia arrived from Sydney. - Wanaka arrived from tire South. - West for' Sydney this evening. Sixteen Chinese arrived in New Zealand during March and three left. New Zealand is declared 'by Gazette notice' to' be'free from swine fever. The revenue from the Lake ) Wakatipu steamer service hist year was £5986 and the expenditure "-£5227. ... -

.■ Recently Mrs. Newman.' an elderly woman, residing m a cottage in Larter-streel, Ballarat, Victoria, was burned to death. The firemen 'discovered', the body face downward .amongst the ruins. It is feared that ~ there will be very heavy losses of stock;. this winter in the Cromwell district, Otago, us the feed is scarce, and with such'a heavy snow com. ing so early it will be a. long winter.

The heavy, storm* which recently pre- , vailed at Port l'tiilip Heads, Victoria, overturned lis- wm I«>il stfiiiiwr Ansl i~i-li;t, enabling My. .\ikmaii, the purchaser 'of the wreck, to recover further salvage. How dangerous railway service is, evt*u - under the • light traffic conditions of the colonies, ' s shown bv a statement that since August, 1904, 558 Victorian railway servants have been injured in the perlormance of their duties. The Amalgamated Society of Railway Workers in Victoria has heartily endorsed the action of the Federal Association in deciding to register the federation under • the Arbitartion Act, with a view to testing the rights of railway men. The conditions under which Dr. Danysz, the rabbit extirpator, is to come to Australia to experiment in rabbit destruction ' is that he is to be paid £1200, and £200 ' per month for two years. His assistant is to receive £34 per month. Dr. -Danysz iff may return to Paris before two years have . elapsed on a bacteriologist, appointed by •'' the Premier, .certifying that "nothing.more • can be dwie with profit. vi'; Uih ; iv ; i f t:s i\i