NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13214, 27 June 1906, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

. MotrEA arrived from Fiji. Manuka left for South. '/* ' Manapouri left for the Islands. ' Parliament opens at Wellington to-day. IS .... The parishioners of St. Mary's New I'P ' /Plymouth,- have decided to spend £3000 in additions to the church. i/ 1 - '- ■ According to the T&ranaki News? there i. are persistent reports , that the country v- away to the east of Stratford is to be prospected for petroleum. [" ? ■ Potato crops throughout the Rotherham ' ' * district (Canterbury) have proved an utter pUii- failure.; The winter,- so far, lias been ex- ".. «eptionalJy mild, feed is plentiful, and '■ . Stock are looking well. ■ , " I may say, as mailman, I shall have to ' «top unless something is done to the track 600n,, as I am afraid of losing my horse |g& and also getting lost myself." A wail from •a, back blocks settler to the Patea County ' : Council. ? < The Hawke's Bay Fruitgrowers' Com- ; f pany handled the following output of • fruit from December 30 1905, to January ■ . . 31, 1906:9280 cases, 403 crates, 154 carjj&'iriers. Peaches formed the bulk of the output. At a meeting at Blenheim lately Mr. Widen, merchant, advised pea-growers in . , the district to determinedly resist an al- ■ leged attempt on the part of big buyers in the South to combine, so as to keep down prices. , The Wellington Public Health Departinent reports the following infectious dis- . ease cases for the week ending June 23: — ' City: Scarlet fever, eight; enteric fever, ■■/}[. one; diphtheria, three; tuberculosis, one. Hutt County: Nil. An old man with a gun caused a sensation in a Wanganui street the other evening. He asserted his intention of putting somebody's " lights out," but a big 'I' policeman laid hands on him before he could get the gun to work. The Government statistician estimates '' , the Victorian wool clip for 3905-6 at V r ' 64,177,8711b. The estimated quantity of .; ' .wool stripped from Victorian skins was ' ,3,938.9351b, and that on Victorian skins exported, 7,621,4971b, or a grand total of 1 75,738,3031b. V " We frequently hear of the decadence of £\'; the Maori (says the Wanganui Herald), ffp;S but if the experience of a half-caste resi- ' dent of the Wavorley district were more Ips general there would bo little fear for the future of : the native race. His wife, a 1 full Maori, a day. or two ago presented {,!' • him with the ' twentieth . arrow in his . quiver. ======= sfe ' It is - announced that there will be no |||§;:,;«harge for. admission to Bishop Neligan's lecture on the Erfglish " Education question •j y in ■ the Federal Hall on Friday next, and all who desiw to hear it wiJUI fee welctMßt