NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13453, 1 June 1907, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

«& Suez mail due on Monday. Kaituna arrived from Westport. • Victoria due from Sydney on Monday. Zealandia due from the South to-morrow. . Fifeshire ,• for the South and Britain to-day. ■■.•.'' ,: '■:.' ■'". ' <■

The. total expenditure: of the Government Veterinary c Department,- for 1906 was £16,400. . ' ■ :'^ : :;/:^-:^-: : ':. :: ■;],-■■,

The Martinboi*ough. Borough Council has -decided- to raise a loan of £8000 for a high pressure water supply.

In four 'hours' shooting in the' Pongakawa district on Sunday last, a Tatiranga sports- " man killed -14 pheasants. -The same gentle-; man's dog also put up a covey of 15 hen pheasants in one lot during the same day..; v The late train from Paeroa on Wednesday night ran into a number -of stud sheep from theJluakura experimental farm.V Fortunate- . ~~~ly none of the animals were killed, but four of them have their hind-legs broken. ' These .;;.;;:were set with splints: . ' -.The Greytown Hospital has been furnished with a mechanical general hand i.ud rouseabout in the shape of a very fine 8-h.p.; engine and dynamo, that cuts the firewood, pumps water into the tanks, and supplies the premises with an abundance of electric light. An unusual accident 13 reported from Tinonee, New South Wales. A sailor, when • loading girders at Tinonee, on the schooner Whangaroa, ran a crowbar into his neck, ' close to the ear. :He was taken to the hospital, his condition being serious. ■.-. Bits of cardboard intended to represent , half-sovereigns are reported to be fairly . plentiful in Sydney.' The -stamping of the obverse and reverse 'sides and of the gilding are very good, and when new, the imitations would be hard to deteet from the genuine coin until taken in the hand, when the ab- '•' sence of the metallic feeling and extreme lightness become apparent. , ; J ■:■,.-.■■■-' As showing the richness, of. the soil and the suitability of the country for dairy pur- / poses, it may be mentioned that one of the settlers at Apiti, Mr. D. Curteis, has been getting a test of 6.0 with the milk 1 from his herd of Jerseys and -; Shorthorns . for some ; months. The roots exhibited at the show J'''l at Apiti last week, go to prove the capabilities of the soil in growing crops, f