NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13279, 11 September 1906, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

'Frisco mail due. •* Taviuni arrived from Fiji. , Zealandia left for Sydney. ,v Aparima left for th°. South. Outward 'Frisco mail to-tiar. Wanaka arrived from the South. Victoria! for the South this afternoon. There is a fisheries disputebetween • Kussia and Japan. The : Steamer Bucentaur . leaves for Fiji and Vancouver to-day. ?R-";' ; The Government poultry depot at Auck- < - '"iasoSr to "be- [ | A massacre of hundreds'to* people .by I soldiers has occurred at Siedliese, i« Po- " land. : "> ' A Maori woman and ner child have been drowned in the Tongaporutu River, in Taranaki. v /"''' '"■' *"' ••' ■ ■•■•■' '"V.. : Great floods have occurred in Victoria. with considerable loss of stock and damage to property. J :■'"' ■'"' ■'■'. ( ; In the opinion of Mr. Justice Cooper ' . the present rules concerning appeals are , not" satisfactory. 1 Sii Joseph Ward says Ministers have ' nailed their colours to the mast, and intend to keep them flying. Last year 'the public Treasury received a ' windfall of £2410 in the form of unclaimed moneys in intestate estates. The Premier made an important statement yesterday regarding the gambling evil and repressive legislation. The citizens of Wellington tendered a public welcome to the Premier and the new members of the Cabinet last night. The Kaiser has delivered a remarkable J speech at Breslau, in which he condemned pessimists, and advised them to leave the country. ' The Victorian Government Statist estimates the total number of sheep in the Commonwealth and New Zealand at 93,000,000. ' August has been a record time for the " sawmill hands in Makotuku, Hawke's Bay, being the first month for some time that they have received full pay. There are '429 asses . and mules in the colon v. No enumeration of the goats has been taken since, 1891, when there were 9055, a decrease on the previous year's figures. The Maoris are now catching consider- > able quantities of lamprey-eels in Taranaki. Quite a camp of the natives has settled "on • the banks of the Waingongoro between Okaiawa and Normanby, and there is great feasting. . A bank clerk in the Pitfield district (Vic.) 'recently lost at bag containing gold valued at £600, purchased by him. at some of the neighbouring mines. The bag was found by a boy named Frank Hall, who restored it to the bank official. ..The boy received a reward of £10 for his honesty. . There are (says the North Otaigo Times) 23 holdings on the Teaneraki Settlement, eight on Tahawai, 78 on Maerewhenua, 66 on Ardgowan, 70 on Tokarahi, 34 on Elderslie, 37 or! Windsor Park, and three on St. Helens, or 280 in all. To the above will have to be added Steward, Corriedale, and Totaira, when they are settled. Last week Mr. W. H. Nelson lost a valuable bull at Woodville. There were a number of these animals in a paddock behind the vicarage and they commenced righting. During the battle one fell, and the whole of the others pounced on aie unfortunate beast and ripped it to pieces. The animal killed was a valuable one, being of good pedigree. While one of the Messrs. O'Hara Brothers was ploughing on Cloverdale Farm, Otama, Southland, recently, he turned up quite ft number of Maori curios, including adzes and other, tools. The most peculiar item of the find, however, was a ■ large piece of conglomerate stone, shaped exactly like a human foot (with the heel and instep faithfully reproduced) cut off at the ankle. ■. '■■ ( • ' " {