NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13192, 1 June 1906, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

■ ; '&& ,'■'-■ -:\i-. ~:■■.' • ■'-♦". ■ ' ' • There are 75 Chinese residentsj three being women,* in Palmerston. There rue, 51 prohibition orders ; current in Masterton at the present time. ■,■ A fine frost fisb was found on the Waik.mae'" beach, Poverty-; Bay,.; last Friday morning. • " ' The Taihape census returns give the town - »: population of 1269, against 400 at the last census. - , It is estimated , that a rise .of Id a lb in, wool .means a profit of between. £15,000 ' and ;£20,000 to Marlborough. , ' . The Weber (Hawjce's Bay) County Council 'is using burnt papa for roadmaking at an average copf- of about 5s per yard. "; At the Spring Vale cemetery, in Vic- ", ioria," recently, the ■ cremation 'of the remains of a recently deceased person, was s ■,;>'■carried: out. :'.:.-'> - : ~'':■'.:■■',:■■: ■■ ;•<;-.■.- ■■' ......... ■ A start has. been made with the erection of the new town hall at Manaia, Taranaki. The structure will cost about £1400, and when finished should be one of the most up-to-date country halls on the coast. ' A third milking machine is to be ex- '; bibited at the Manawatu Winter Show. -It is the invention of a. Scotsman, now resi- - dent in this' colony,, and is said to have l)een-' in successful operation, for the past v.: four years. ■ .'...- ' * >< A-correspondent'writes to a ■ Cliristchurch paper as follows:—What lias become of our milk inspectors? > Have they gone to sleep for another year or two?. My milk•mail, having rnn out of chalk, is now supplying me with the pure article—water. • • The gold yield of New South Wales for the first four months of the current year ; shows r a' material advance on the production during the same period of last year. In' April the output was 25,3860z fine, as compared with 68820z in April, 1905. " • Interviewed > during his . ; slay, in ■ Nelson, ' the Acting-Minister for Railways (the Hon. ; ?;f, A. Pitt), stated that it was proposed to make ',; extensions to the wharf at an estimated cost J of; £16,000. ' He added that the Govern'*:■ment was satisfied that the harbour improve- ':.'■ ment works were a success. : * :, ; fev- 1 , The men engaged in breaking up,the' old I '."coal hulk Menschikoff, at Lyttelton, found V ; in the timbers of her stern a rusty cannon I ball and a boarding pike, mementoes of the time when she was an armed vessel under i; the: Russian flag, before she became a Bri- : tish,.prize and a peaceful merchantman.:, ■. : :: The rainbow trout which were liberated ■ :in the Northern Wairoa main river and ad- ; joining streams last July, ; are beginning to V; show evidence of their presence,' and with such ;a ; grand stretch of clear, suitable , water, should do splendidly, though it is a , sjrl, pity that a few salmon trout also could not be introduced. _. ;. : I ' -v. ■ : ■ ■■■■•'■■ ■ .' , .'•'..:.<. i According to the statement of Captain < - Lang, a well-known timber expert, there i ';; is >» wonderful 'log lying in the .Northern i Wairoa River: It' has been thtre n& long 1 as the .oldest resident can remember— ' bably.over 50 ■years— the heart of it ] • is. us .sound as. the day the log was nut I ■ into, the -water. - • •■••:■ ' 'i.- : :': y ' • • ■ '.