NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13398, 29 January 1907, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

'AimVERSART DAT. Wimmera left for Sydney. Victoria for the South this evening. Auckland Regatta takes place to-day. Atua due from the Islands to-morrow. In Australia 94.000 tons of ore are mined for one ton of gold.

There will be a partial eclipse of the moon to-night, beginning shortly before midnight.

The inmates of the police cells last night consisted of four persons arrested on charges of drunkenness, and two on « charges of theft.

A good export demand prevails for export parcels of New South Wales flour for Manila, China, and Japan, shipments aggregating' 2000 tons per week, at £7 per ton.

Recently George Falkin-er, aged 71, was killed instantaneously at Sulky Gully, near Ballarat, Victoria, through falling off a load of wood, which he was carting from the bush.

It is anticipated that before the season closes the amount paid in bounty tor whitegrown sugar in Queensland will amount' to £260,000, more than double the sum so paid last year.

A herd li 300 cows seems a big one to milk night and morning, but a farmer near Manaia", Taranaki, has been milking this ;lumber this season. He works the place on the shares plan.

A settler on the Waimato Plains last month received a cheque of £55 16s for the milk of 20 cows, grazed on 40 acres of land. Such a result would be very hard to beat. The cows are a well selected lot.

When an officer of Wyndham (Otago) Presbyterian Sunday-school opened the collection boxes the other Sunday afternoon, ho found that they had'been rifled of thencontents, fully £3 having been abstracted. It is recorded that Speaker Coles, of the South Australian Assembly, has put up what looks- like a world's record. He has been nearly 17 years in the chair, and during that time he has not missed a sitting of the House.