NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13285, 18 September 1906, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

• Mo ana left for Sydney. ' Maiiapouri due from Fiji. Navua for the Islands to-day. • Mokoia for the South this afternoon. Two shops and a hotel have been destroyed by fire at. Waitara. Gold valued at £10,677 was sent to Sydney by the M'oana yesterday. The police cells contained five persons last * night, all arrested on charges of drunkenness. Damage lias been done by flood.™ to roads and bridges in the Matamata district. The Minister for Labour has several amendments of the Shops and Oflii-es Act in preparation. The San Francisco mail which left Auckland on August 17 was delivered in London on the 16th Inst. ■ ; The total sum handled annually in this colony by the receivers of land revenue is over £550,000. The Minister for Public Works advised • a Taranaki deputation yesterday to have patience as regards railway construction. The Maori prophetess is creating quite a stir in the Poverty Bay district. She seems to have made a number of converts. A falling tree wrecked a camp at Kawaroa, near Kawhia, a party of bushfellers having a narrow escape from death. One man was injured. • During the past two months suppliers to Sfjj the Awahuri Dairy Factory, Wellington, s have been receiving IOJd per lb for butterWVfat; The milk supply at the factory is increasing daily. • New potatoes are somewhat of a rarity, but a sample ' has reached the Taranaki News office from Mr. tW. H. Laughlin, of Vogeltown. ' They are not of an early class/ but are Northern Stars, which are usually , looked upon as a main crop va- ■ riety. ■■ 1 ' ■ * \ •••'• ~ ■ - ■ ; ; " g v * * . ■ [■ \J' ,■" -V ," % f. 1 : V' ■ ' • " ■ - " • , ■ <■ - - . - ' ,<■ ;■ - .