NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13487, 14 May 1907, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

■;,';;■ Miower.4. left for Sydney. . Talune for Fiji to-morrow. K _ Waikare for the South to-day. "v. • Squadron due from Wellington. * H Manapouri arrived from the South. . Mitaiua due from London this-week. i\ t Ferhdale due from New York and Aus- &■-■ tralia to-morrow. * - j§, ' There are nearly 13,000 more horses in ; ■/ Ki-w Zwland to-day than there were a ;- • (> .: year ago. : ■'■.-. Scheelite is now one of the recognised exports of New Zealand. During the past* :. , year nearly 95 tons were exported, -valued I at £5520.* The: loans for which the borough of Timaru is at present responsible total £87,674, the annual interest on which >' i:/ amounts to £5410,_ !„ A Feilding * advertiser wanted an office jj: boy, but he did not get one application. JL So he advertised for a girl, and made, the p. ; appointment out of-48 applicants. I; The Mataura paper mills are running j the, full' 1 24 hours, and have difficulty in I m keeping ,up with the demand. No stop\f- page of machinery is made for meals. > f - Advice has been received by the Tarak naki Petroleum Company that the expert |j engaged in America left "Vancouver for I; New Zealand about a- fortnight ago. |. ' At the Wee Waa Police Court (New l* v "South Wiles), on; April 27, John Goodyer 1 was fined : £20 per head for selling nine I diseased cattle by public auction to the loI i''*,c'«l butcher. * ■ I* ' On. Ids'farm at Peel Forest (South CanM terbury) Mr. 11, Thew has some mustard, I which has grown to a height of 7ft. The I: . mustard is grown with turnips and rape f^;' as feed for sheep. / ' " , - The locomotive engine which formed a.prominent 1 feature of the Railway Department's display at the Exhibition, has been 1 put into" I'J ; : The locomotive engine which formed a.pro--1 .. minent feature of the Railway Department's \, display at the Exhibition, has been put into :■;■' commission, and recently went for atrial run ■-. from Christchurch to Lyttelton and back,. - '..'' A fat Tamworth sow, ; which was sold ;at ?Jl • Addington saleyards ..recently on behalf of, i i; : Mr. 11. Stewart", lias been killed by the pur-; ; '?' chaser, Mr. Buxton, and turned the scale at IPi 7621b. Tins is believed to constitute a New, |f: Zealand record.;-/ : //;:':'. /-:"''/;'1-/J II ' A well blown authority in cheese circles I' ..'declares that prices;for cheese . must rule |~- very much lower next season. They are » keeping up-very well .at, present. A South-. S?. ern factory sold its May and June output W\ the otheir day at 6d. ' I 4 ,',' As showing the height of the' flood at I I. ■ Pukeo '(Mortmborougli - district) last "week, 1 •■•"';■■; the Wairarapa Standard's correspondent ■;:'■' mentions 1 that ' the settlers were" touring about their properties in boats, the water 1; ' being several feet above boats, the water being several feet above the fences. ' ' ■ - I) Tho timber industry ;in Greymouth is 'I still kept very busy .supplying, the" largo «' number of orders in hand. ;On the wharf / the'hands'are kept busily engaged loading I : the . veijseui, and with a: good bar, the exII port, for this month should bo a record. •-' , - The Rjijgitikci Adydcate says, the high--1 ,', est price realised for land of any conI ;<; siderable area in the Feilding district was -f made the other day, When Mr. W. Kober- ' 9 stein sold his 400 acre property on the I '■•'• Makino Road, , the price being £37, per §r.." ; acre. ' . 1; .The Christchurch . city surveyor states i / that with the adoption' of the Waimakariri I water power scheme, Christchurch would g: reap a profit of £69,000 /annually by the" |j: use of only .'half the power available. / That m\ sum would more than cover the present *&;<■■ :■■:■■;■■-' ■■ ■ . . ..:■•■■ -•"•■■ -■•■•'-•■•'.■*",'«.• rates. • . • |] "' Liberalism has spoiled trades unionism," I''■ said Mr. J. Thorn at a socialist open-air y|: meeting at Christclrurch. "It has reduced 1 "the'unions from strong, useful bodies to Ih. little coteries of officers who now and ' l ■ again conduct cases in the Arbitration I ' ,0011113." ' ' . !■: , ■ An enormous yield of potatoes has just m'■ been taken from three-quarters of An acre IU on Mr. ' John Taylor's property, Mataura 111 {}.\y.' the Ensign). From that area 230 -!'» -v cjl-lilh i sacks of Up-to-Datcs have been I "« : :.'. This averages at the rate of 26 tons - l'Jcwt per acre. , ' *