NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13605, 26 November 1907, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mokoia left for Sydney. Hauroto for Fiji to-morrow. Manuka for the South to-day. Manapouri for the Eastern Pacific this afternoon.

Ripe cherries, grown at Papawai, Greytown, are being sold in the Wairarapa.

There are 1162 hotel licenses in the Dominion, and 203 accommodation licenses.

The Carterton cheese factories railed away 700 crates of cheese last week for export to Great Britain.

The weekly output of the TaurangaDairy Company and Bay of Plenty Dairy Association is now nearly 300 boxes.

A hapuka weighing over 1001b, caught in the vicinity of the Hen and Chicken Islands, was brought into Whangarei last Thursday.

The first consignment of the season's cheese from Katui lias now been stored at the Mangawhare factory, and appears to be of even better quality than last year's output.

Recently someone broke into the Te Puna. (Tauranga) schoolroom and removed a small wooden cross, used in'connection with the Church of England services. The cross was cut out from the altar cloth.

Lawrence (60 miles from Dunedin) butchers have raised the price of beef Id a pound all round, rump steak now being 8d for cash and 9d booked. There is some talk of urging the Government to establish a State butchery and bakery at Lawrence.