NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13278, 10 September 1906, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hr.n.4 lt> Summary. ■';..." ~ Suez mail arrived. ' v • , 'Frisco mail due to-day. Victoria arrived from Sydney. ;'Frisco mail leaves ■to-morrow. Zealandia for Sydney this evening. Otago beat Canterbury at football by 12 points to 8."; - ' " A fatal motor-car accident is reported from Timaru. British imports and exports for August show a large increase. ' Cambridge has defeated Harvard in the University boat race. : A destroyer with a speed of 33 knots is to be built for the British navy. Auckland hockey representatives defeated Thames by three goals to two. It is understood that a State coal depot will shortly be established in Timaru. Twenty buildings are tc be erected in Carterton during the next few months. The New Zealand golf championship meeting commences to-day at church.',Reference was made to the gambling evil yesterday in several of the Auckland churches. A mild epidemic of wallet fever has been experienced in Sydney during the past week or two. ' In the inter-university football match, Otago v. Sydney, the visitors were defeated by 21 points to nik In the course of a speech at Dunedin, Mr. Justice Cooper made a vigorous attack on the gambling evil. The Auckland. Headmasters' Association heartily supports the injects of the National League of New Zealand. An old age pensioner was struck by a passing train near Carisbrook (Otago) on Saturday and seriously injured. The Governor, speaking at Wellington on Saturday, said art was not -upported in New Zealand as it should be. The cost of the Commission of Inquiry into" the To Aute College and Wanganui Collegiate School Trusts was £1577 18s lOd. An upholsterer named Rogers, residing at,Kendal Ruse, London, while temporarily insane, murdered his wife and two children. During the coming season mining will be resumed by a number of persons who have taken up claims op. the * Wilberforce River, in Westland. The new Russian policy has been unfavourably received, and the revolutionaries have decided to continue their system of terrorism and assassination. Messrs. James -Drummond and Hight are preparing a volume on " The Life and Work if Richard John Seddon," which will be published in November next. A commencement has been made with tht, plans for the Auckland Departmental :Buildings, and a. vote for extensions will appear in the current year's Estimates. ; ~" ■■ The Trades and Labour Congress at Liverpool has passed a resolution, in favour of public-•'administrative bodies being empowered to issue their uwn credit notes.