NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13369, 26 December 1906, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manuka left for Sydney. The Taviuni leaves for Fiji to-day. ,;Waikare and Star of Japan left for the South. i • ■■ f \ Schnapper are fairly - ; plentiful in the Manukau Harbour at present, and several good hauls" have been reported. The.steamer Waiwera, which arrived at Dunedin from London yesterday, brought a number ,of Wensdale sheep consigned to Lyt-telton. -. ; •; Through- the enterprise of the settlers the telephone line has now been carried into the heart of the Tahora country, a distance of 50 miles from the Gisborne Exchange. The Government Native dispenser reports that there is a great deal, of sickness amongst the Maoris at Oparure and Te Kumi. All are cases of influenza with complications. . The young man G. Mains, who was severely hurt at Onehunga on Saturday, as the result of his trap capsizing, was well enough to be removed from Haverhill Hospital on Monday. It is estimated that considerably over a million feet of sawn timber is sent out from the King Country mills every month. For the first four weeks' of this month about 600,000 ft were sent down on the railway to . Waikato ...

Constable F. Woods is- an important man in Foxton. • Previous Gazette notices have told of his appointment as clerk of the Court and inspector of factories, and the latest Gazette notifies, that he has been appointed an inspector of sear fishing. ..