NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13392, 22 January 1907, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mantra left lor Sydney. Hauroto for Fiji to-morrow. Tarawera for the South to-day. Indralema due from Xew York and Australia.

Manapouri for the Eastern Pacific this evening. Tick fever is daily proving disastrous to herds in the southern districts of Queensland.

The cost of establishing an electric light and tramway service in Napier is estimated at £60.000. During the year ended ■ December 31, 1906, there were 87 births, 32 deaths, and 18 marriages in Cambridge. Tlin vital statistics for the district of Te I Awamutu for the year 1906 are: Births 90, marriages 31, deaths 23. . The warmth, at night time, of the streams in the vicinity of Stratford lias been causing some mortality among trout. 'i 11.- Kongokokako Cheese Company will pay out £832 4* 3.1 tor butter-fat .supplied (hiring > ii'' month ot December. In feu- parts of iarunakiare.there so many nip crop?, as on the farms along the railway line U-twecn Ha.wera and Ngaire. Dannevirke hu,s one. licensed house to each 722 of its population, while Woodville has one licensed house to each 222 of its population. As proof of the heat in Central Otago the (Itago Daily Times is informed that some red clover : sown on a Friday, in prepared ground and well-irrigated, was through the surface on the following Sunday. At the New Plymouth Police Court last Wednesday morning a Maori was asked if the Maoris "kept up" Christmas Kve, and he is understood to have replied that they kept it up every Saturday evening. Rabbits are on an alarming increase, in the Te Awamutu and Kilnkilii districts, and settlers are beginning to realise that I!i«-y will be compelled to take- more energetic steps to suppress the progress of bunny. Tuihape is to have a town clock as the result ot a generous oiler by a resident to subscribe £50 and raise a further sum of £200 by way of subscriptions. Tho liovernment has promised a subsidy of £ lor £. Shortly after the Union Company's steamer Manuka left for Sydney lust night, it was discovered that there weie several stowaways on board. The steamer was slowed down in the stream, and the " undesirables" were brought on shore by the steam launch Presto, which had gone out to the Manuka in response to her signals.