NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13194, 4 June 1906, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

m Whit Monday. '""' ;■:'..<'-.■■; Suez mail due. ' : , *-' '■"■:■.*:',.;''■'..,'-'- } Tarawera left for South. - '. . Indradevi left for London. Zealandia due from Sydney. };'.; . The banks will be closed to-day. '■~,-.. i Westralia for Sydney this evening. The Taviuni is due from the Eastern • r Pacific on Thursday. The Moeraki, which arrived at Wellington /.; yesterday, from Sydney, ie bringing 57 Angora goats, the majority of which are to * be transmpped to Blenheim. :' Speaking at Woodville, the Rev. F. W. .Isitt stated that the expenses of the New Zealand Alliance—which had been paid—at :' the last election amounted to £1500. There is a mild' block at the Mataurafreezing works- (Southland), over 700,000 rabbits being in store, and supplies coming ■ in at the, rate of 10,000 to 15,000 daily. The ship Cassius, on moving to the stream ■ from the wharf at Wellington, on Monday, lost a 37cwt anchor owing to a link of the t'. | cable snapping a few feet "from the anchor. ' ■ The depth of water where the anchor dropped is 78ft. Dragging operations for. the lost anchor were unsuccessful. ..■ The following shows the increase' on the yaluatroris of farm • land Jin the district; around Blenheim: Spring Creek district, total of new valuation on unimproved land, £241,005, an increase of £81,600 on the last valuation three years ago; .Omaha district., new valuation on unimproved land £417,954, an increase of £153,809 in three years. The question of rebuilding First Church, '. Invercargill, is, now under consideration. It is to .cost £9500, while the necessary pipe organ would run into £1060. The proposal is to build the new church immediately upon "the-site of.the' present building,'which would be moved bodily to the rear, and used as a Sunday-school. , "