NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13498, 27 May 1907, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

. Stoz mail arrived. .." ' Winter Show closed. Matatua left for the South. Talune due from Fiji to-day. ,'VVaikare arrived from the South. ' Miowcra for Sydney this evening. ' " ; ' i Delphic for the South and London to-day. •'V Supreme- Court criminal sittings open, today. . .' Atua, for the Islands and Sydney to-mor- ... • ::; jcpV,.r • \ . i .• • , ,0! the 162 coal mines in the colony, 114 ~. Bfe inrOtago. 1 ;> ';.''; -' "•',-'- There are 305 fisheries in New Zealand, employing 782 persons, v ■ School gardens •in the' Wanganui district earned a capitation of £102 9s last year. There is a total of 1162 pupils attending the" classes ,at the Wanganui ■ Technical School. Maropiu (Northern Wairoa) exports over five tons of kauri gum each week, while Babylon turns out about our - tons per . •week. -■=■ ■ The approach of winter was heralded at . Tauranga last Monday night, when a sharp ' frost was experienced in the town and country districts.., Last week 'j Tauranga > sportsman bagged 15 pheasants as the result of a day's shoot- ■ ing. Another good bag is reported by two ' gentlemen, who shot.l 9 pheasants in on© • day's.outing. During the first week in May nearly 1000 bags of flour, 52 bags of barley, 35 .bags of peas, 58? bags of onions, and 650 bags of' potatoes were shipped from Melbourne to New Zealand. • Quite a number of cattle have been*sold in the Maheroodistrict .lately (says the North Otago Times), due 'to the shortness of feed. One farmer reduced his herd by i over 100 head, Most of the cattle went to ' Southland. '.- , ;. ;_'. ';'""-' "The export of eoal from Newcastle from May 6 to ' May 12 was' a record -for the - season. i; The quantity despatched.', was : 101,464 tons. :; No less than 82 vessels— sailers and nine steamers-—were lying in the .harbour on Saturday week last. The white grub, which has been so destructive in" the North, Otago district in past ;■■;:■:■■ years, is reported to have. had an effective check owing to the long-continued drought. In some parts numbers of. the grubs are to be seen dead on the surface.