NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13482, 8 May 1907, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Victoria left for the South. -Wanaka due from South to-day. -

The"Aparhna Trill' be clue from ■ Calcutta'' Friday next. , , -Duoks are said to be plentiful on the Wairarapa Lake this season. Victoria is at present bringing forth a crop of divorce suits. No less than 44 of such cases are set down' for hearing in May. , A. large dog, -while rushing from a butcher's shop in Melbourne; collided with a valuable draught,horse, which fell, breaking '*' • - its -neck, and died instantaneously. ' '- The present output of butter from the Mid'hurst dairy J factory /is 18 ' boxes a : day more'thaij at this time last year. It is expected: that .the increase for the ; season will :'-' be about 100 tons.

-The total number of kanakas who have,so i ' far been deported from Australia is. 3186, S • Of these, 1167 went, to the New Hebrides, ' 1699 to the Solomon Islands, 311 to Fiji, : and nine to Papua.. , r ; •: <- - Another proof of . the loyalty and pride in their. city of the people" of Ballarat, Vic- ' * toria, is afforded by . the will of Mr. R. W. /": r Holmes, who has bequeathed .over £7000 to charities.-; : During the passage of ' the barque Lady ~h, Woliseley from Antofagasta to Newcastle, the second mate, John Kelly, was killed, and ' the body was buried *at sea. The fatality • occurred on April 19, when the vessel was . ■ off Sydney. , ;; A telegram has been received by the Melbourne Customs authorities from Adelaide, ' • • reporting - that a • shipment of Russian , ants : : f eggs, sent out 1 as food for poultry, had been .stopped. Directions were, given for the sterilisation of the eggs. . 7"-.;' ■ the Customs officer at Port Darwin re- ' ports that there has been during' the last year a material increase in the revenue from r spirits and rice.'' ; Tins is attributed to the suppression •" of the sale •of . opium. The - mineral. yields in the Northern Territory continue "to increase, as also the beche-de-v'.:; mer industry. ' ' ! "