NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13306, 12 October 1906, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

■Talttxe arrived from the South. There ware 44 births in Taibape last quarter. '• - ','.'•'" The Land Bill has been abandoned for the present session. - :' > It is now stated that the Papakaio mystery will soon be cleared up. A syndicate is arranging to prospect'for oil in the Ngaire swamp, Taranaki. There is a : deadlock in the Federal Parliament over the Preferential Trade Bill. A Maori,'"who''bought he was bewitched, committed suicide at Wairoa, Hawke's Bay. The Home Government is to introduce a Bill to prevent the adulteration of butter. During the manth of September 'two cars of diphtheria were reported in- the Whaii'arei County. - It is estimated thai; the year's working of the Wellington tramways will show a net profit of £10,000. '.'. Ths Hawera Acclimatisation Society ' have disposed of a large quantity of fry to the Feilding Society. In 25 years the Nightcaps Coal Company, Otago, has 1 taken half-a-million tons of coal from its property. The Waimate Witness reports that a crop of potatoes on the Main South Road near Hawera, has already taken blight. .During Sunday night dogs worried a . , number of sheep in the North Canterbury Sflleyards sections, at Rangiora, killing four or five. -. ■'■.•;:.;:-:■ • '•-Three cruisers being built on the Tyne r and Clyde prove to be really vessels of the Dreadnought type, with broadsides as \ heavy, and nearly as , great tonnage, but, with higher speed. . • .-.•'.