NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13396, 26 January 1907, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

.Mokoia for the South to-day. Tokamaru arrived from London. A Suez mail arrives to-morrow. Wimmera from the South to-morrow. Victoria due from Sydney to-morrow. Measles are prevalent in Hawera just now*.

Mushrooms have been fairly plentiful in the Hawera'district during the past week.

During the year just passed there were 54 prohibition'orders granted in Dannevirke.

Th© H. Holland sued for debt at the Auckland Magistrate's Court, on bursday, is Herbert Holland, of Wellington. It is estimated that the Government will make £50,000 a vear bv compelling Education Boards to pay for their correspondence.

Some exceedingly good crops are reported to have been harvested at Featherston during the past week, oat's in particular threshing unusually heavy.

The number of breweries in the colony last year was 72, and they employed 731 hands. The wages paid totalled £92,128 a. year, and the beer made in 1905 amounted to 7.634,362 gallons, valued at £572.579.

A Taiporohenui farmer discovered a litter of voting rata in a blackbird's nest, built in a blackthorn hedge. One of the young rodents was killed by a boy about the place, and next day it was found that the " brood" had been removed, presumably by the mother rat for safety.

A water-race running through properties adjoining West Bush Road, Palmerston North, has gradually dried up as a result of the dry season, and last Saturday a large number of dead trout, one weighing two and a-half pounds, were taken from a lagoon into which the race empties itself.