NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13226, 11 July 1906, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

.-• 'Hjebalb Summary. - " , ; ; '.Frisco mail leaves to-day. Mokoia left or the South. \ Sonoma from Sydney this 'morning. Hauroto left for the Islands. . M&rere arrived from London and.Austra- ' lia. ''■'■•■ Admiralty withdraws .Chicago meats > from navy. _ ... Duel in Paris between Colonel Picquart 'X*..-* % and General Gonee. . « "}. Fighting in Macedonia. Bulgarian bands annihilated. * \ New, Zealand to t be included in Aus- , tralia's new mail contract. f Suggested new Russian Ministry chosen ; fi6iu Constitutional Democrats. * ' • • Salvation ' Army, will probably . start . Slumwork in' Auckland. ■..,'.. A technical school at Wellington is sug"gesied as a memorial to' the late Mr. Sed- • ;" don. '~. ' ■ *'■'. "■>- ' . Great demonstration, at, Birmingham in connection" with Mr. Chamberlain's birthday. A heavy gale, which swept over Wellington yesterday, seriously interfered with the shipping. • Terms of new mail contract announced: Paster service, subsidy £125,000 a-year, , 11,000-ton steamers. ." The steamer Tweeddale, which arrived at Wellington yesterday, had a rough trip across the Tasman Seal Important recommendations .for the improvement of Gisborae Harbour have been made by Mi-. F. W. Mar-chant, j A fierce gale was experienced in and around Auckland yesterday. Considerable damage to property is reported from the Waiuku district. : ' The Anglican Bishop, Wellington (Dr. WaJlis) states that it . is unjust that Anglican educational ' trusts should receive separate legislative treatment from precisely similar trusts held by other denominations. Auckland goldfielda produced gold worth " £101 ,-721 during • the past four weeks, bringing- the output for the half-year to .£600,428, an increase,of £173,005 over the first six. months, of last year. A, Marlborough settler who ha;', been a close observer of the kowhai for many years ' Jaet week n saw'. blooms of that flower on tit'o,l along Ihe-Wairaußivpr. He had never ween the tree in bloom previously earlierthan in October. Another resident of Marlborough,, with 40 year's' experience, also saad lie had Sever seen kowhai blooms before . so' early as June. ~'' , * '