NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13355, 8 December 1906, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Siehea for Sydney this morning. | Ta'lune" for the- South this afternoon. Tav.iuni due .from Fiji on Tuesday Motioia due from Sydney to-morrow - night. " ~ Kelson has started a motor omnibus ser- , vice. .The Manuka is due from the South tomorrow morning. Locally-grown fruit; is coming >in . steadily ,to Auckland.About 100 miles of mains are used in Wellington's water supply. • ■ It is computed that over 5000 acres of felled bush will be burnt off in the Northj ern liroa during the coming autumn sea-; " son. 1 ■. ' . The Taranakr County , Council ;■ has forwarded to Colonel R. J. Collins, .as an old Taranaki boy, its congratulations on his appointment to the position of Secretary to; the Treasury. ' . ' ,'. i The : Taihape millers are again loading whitej pine for r shipment to . Sydney. Alexais" now,', ready to receive a '-'cargo-.'of -: -. 250,000 ft at Wanganui, and .'some' 50,000 ft', a day;is''being rushed -.down to her. , ' r ][ ;' At a meeting at New Plymouth last Tuesday Captain Mace said that one of' the .'•; first men killed in the war was buried in' iC'ourtenay-stieet. where the boys now played leapfrog. " As illustrating the suitability of the Tau- . ranga district for dairying purposes, it is .'■ stated thaLa number "of suppliers to the Tauranga "airy Company's factory averaged over £1 per cow for the month of Octo-. her.; v "-,"'.',-' ' • •