NEWS IN BRIEF.
N'.Z. Exhibition" closed. Mokoia left for Sydney. Sonoma for 'Frisco to-day. Miowera for the South this afternoon. Hauroto for the Eosteru Pacific 'this evening.
It is stated that the Aratapu sawmill will soon be at work again.
On St. George's Day, the 23rd inst., the Government offices throughout the colony will be closed.
The accumulated funds of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand amount to nearly £4000.
Twelve onions exhibited at Levin Horticultural Show, weighed 39J!b. The crop is said to average nearly 50 tons to the acre.
A bow was killed at Wootlville bacon factory last week, the dressed weight of which, without the head, turned the scale at. 4171b.
During the quarter ended last week fines totalling £250 were, imposed in the Invercargili Magistrate's Court for offences of sly grog-selling.
The past season has been a remarkably good one for honey yields (says the Wyndham Herald). (Several beekeepers' returns are counted in tons weight.
At a meeting presided over by Colonel Porter, at Gisborne yesterday, it was decided to form a branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to .Animals.
The Woodville paper understands that three estates in tin* district between Pongarou and the coast are under consideration by the Government- for close settlement purposes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13463, 16 April 1907, Page 6
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