NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13481, 4 July 1907, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

«» , Kilualk arrived from Valparaiso. Iluuroto due from the Ivistern Pacific. Talune due /rum the South this mora" ing. The Miowera left Sydney for Auckland yesterday. Ivippiugliam (»range due from Britain and Australia. The land in cultivation in New Zealand totals 14,382,787 acres. . ;.\ It is reported that payable tin has been discovered in the Stanhope district, New South Wales. -■ ; The Uiiwerii Co-operative Dairy Company has decided to increase its capital from £5000 to £10,000. . The Hawke's Bay A. and I*. Society has <t meml>ership of 995 ami a credit balance of £2000, with no liabilities. Thirty shillings ran acre is being offered. . to bushmen for felling on some of th.i newly- ' opened blocks inland of Wartganui, and even . at that figure men are. very hard to get. :• Last week's heavy gale at Witngunui hud I the ell'ect of driving huge numbers of sea- 'j:'-, I gulls inland, and there must have been v thousands of them Hying about the river dur- f -i£: • ing the day. While the morning train from Spencer- . , street to Newport was Hearing South ■ Ken- , sington station. Victoria, recently, a bullet . . was fired through the window, grazing." a r [ passenger's head. ! While preparing breakfast the other morn- .."--* • ing, the dressing gown of a married woman named Susan Bate, residing at Surrey Hills, ' caught lire, and she was so severely burnt .* •< that she died in the Melbourne Hospital the . ' \ same evening. Material reductions arc to be made in the rates and fares charged on the New South [ Wales railways. In the aggregate it is cal- ; 3 1 culated, on existing trarlie, they will involve , a sum of about £120,000. f For some little time past a, good deal of , Australian money ha.s been absorbed by purchases of Australian securities in tibtt- ' '. don, and more recently by the new issues of - the two leading Sydney banking corpora- - tions, but there are signs now that money. - will become, more plentiful in the share:i market, and already prices begin to show >an upward tendency. -