NEWS IN BRIEF.
'Frisco mail dw;. J Talune for the South to-day. Manuka, due from Sydney tu-nwriow. , The Tarawera is due from the South to-: morrow. | Farmer!- in the Col ion district leave I reaped a good halved, and tliete. ate some I substantial-looking stacks to be seen along he road:-. j The. Wa.ipa.wa Mail states that the Government has purchased the tonga Block, of 4028 acre;-, near Daimerirkc. from Mrs. Ka.lhbone. The selection of the Rhodes cellular tor 1907 will be made on February 15, when the board of selectors meets at Government House, Wellington. The frequent warm rums are no doubt responsible for the appearance of the potato blight in the native .settlement at I'ipiriki. Tho European crops iu the same district arc as yet unaffected. The t'eilding Star is informed that potato blight ha.-' made its appearance in the Cheltenham district, iu the crops of torn* 1 ■it the farmers who took 110 precautionary measures in the way of spraying. The erection of the monument in the Square, l'alnierstoii, to the Maori warrior, Te I'eeti Te Awa Awa, is now being pushed on rapidly. The statue itself will he. placed in position shortly, the base being now practically completed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13390, 19 January 1907, Page 6
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202NEWS IN BRIEF. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13390, 19 January 1907, Page 6
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