NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13494, 22 May 1907, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

' Ranadi arrived from Fiji. , : Vancouver mail arrived. :, /, VJAtuajduß from the Islands. . : '-~«".• . -.: . r Zealandia left for the South. "A* Suez mail is due on Friday. Eleven pounds ten shillings an acre has been got for turnips on Inchclutha-this year .already. , .. -, ;,, - ■ :A" Press Association telegram states that the 'Union-' Steam. Ship Company has purchased the 'Auckland timber trader Zelateur . for a hulk. ' ■';,'■ "„. : ;: , : - p The Oamaru Borough Council have purchased the whole of the scenery and; stage fittings of the New Zealand Exhibition Concert Hall at less than one-fourth of the ori- ■ ginal cost. , : . _. .. , 'Eight persons- occupied the police cells last evening. Four were charged with drunkenness, one with theft, one with vagrancy, one with an indecent act, and one • with common assault. :' A Hastings resident of authority predicts that the electric: tramway system in that town will be an established fact within the next 12 months. It is expected that there -.vill be no difficulty in forming a syndicate, . as there are wealthy men in the district who are greatly in favour of the scheme. It is reasonably supposed by those in the know at Cheviot that the South Island Main Trunk railway line is to be completed within 10 years from the time the North ' Island Trunk line is finished. The Ministers who have visited Cheviot lately confirm the supposition. In fining a Wanganui employer for failing to pay his employee's wages within the time provided by the law, the Bench said it waVnot right, on principle, that an employer should let his employees suffer owing to financial embarrassments. If an employer could not pay his debts, the person to suffer should not be one of his work- ■• people. '-'■.:■ vAt the declaration of the poll for the Eketahuna Mayoralty, Mr. Thos. Parsons, a i defeated candidate, who only secured 29 votes, said ;he would "like to thank : those who did not vote for, him. He had left Vlocal politics alone for a number of years, and the result of the election showed that the people considered the best place for him : was I at. home. He would take the , bint. ; j _ An exhibition of products of New South; Wales has lately ; been made in Bremen. | ■"■ Mr. Coghlan, the State Agent-General, having been requested to make a display there. : Bremen 'streets are paved with : New South Wales hardwood, and the Germans are also fond of the dark wheats produced in that . State. A 'London; cor-; respondent • gives some particulars of this somewhat unusual request'from, a German ■ city..