NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13296, 1 October 1906, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

"Frisco mail due to-day. Te Anau left for the South, t Maheno arrived from Sydney. Lionel Terry has escaped again. , Mokoia for Sydney this evening. Maori boy run over by a waggon at all - Hastings and killed. The Foxhill Hotel, at Nelson, was de- . / itroyed by fire on Friday night; nothing saved. ' The Government offices throughout New Zealand will be closed on Labour Day (October 10). Fire walkers from the island of Bega, Fiji, are to be sent to the New Zealand Exhibition. Farmers in various parts of the colony are protesting vigorously against the Government land proposals." The frost has damaged a little of the prospective apricot crop in some of the gardens at Roxburgh, Ofcago. The Public Works Department declares that the best class of totara timber is as serviceable as silver pine for railway sleepers. Further reductions are announced in shipping freights on dairy produce from New Zealand to London and West of Eng- - land ports. The well-known Australian sculptor, Mr. Nelson Ulingworth, has been commissioned to make a bust of the late Premier, Mr. Seddon. A weasel got into a brooder containing 40 chickens at Timaru, and only 10 frightened fledglings were left alive when the animal was captured. ' The observatory building in PaJmerston North is now nearing completion. The telescope is to be mounted on a block of concrete 10ft in height. For smoking on the Invercargill railway station a number of residents. were fined 10s and costs. The law is to be strictly enforced by the railway authorities. A man named Robert David Robinson, a station manager, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor on Thursday evening last at the Omaranui station. Dr. Mason, chief health officer, referring to Professor Leydon's remarks at the Dancer Research Conference at Frankfort, Bays, "we are on the eve of great discoveries." Bill' : During the period ended August 18,1906, 61,125 tons of minerals were railed on the Sffi| Hurunui-Bluff section, as against 46,608 tons carried during the corresponding period of 1905. •