NEWS IN BRIEF.
Sure mail arrived. Victoria arrived from Sydney. 'Frisco mail leaves on Saturday. Wimmera for Sydney this evening. The banks will be closed to-morrow. Jrish Monarch arrived from New York. The Herald Summary will be published next Thursday.
The Wanganui River has engulfed and obliterated another big slice of the Taumarunui Flat.
The difficulty of securing sufficient boy and girl labour at the Petone Woollen Mills is being as keenly felt as ever.
The Dunedin Star says a searching inquiry is demanded into the whole conduct of the investigation into the Papakaio murder and to police bungling in connection therewith.
The meteorological returns for December, 1906, show a rainfall of 2.69 in at tiie Ruutnngata' nursery, rain occurring on nine days. There was a total rainfall of 4.69 in at the Puhipuhi plantation.
The Feilding correspondent of the Manawatu Times writes: Rabbits are. on the increase in some parts of Kimbolton district. A party of, shearers recently killed 42 on one. property near Waituna. ' The Foxton Herald understands that an effort is being made by several townspeople to assist to provide funds to eend i a local school excursion consisting ot ( senior scholars to the Exhibition. .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13397, 28 January 1907, Page 6
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