NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13723, 13 April 1908, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mokoia sails for Sydney. ■ -Manuka leaves for South. Rakanoa. arrived from Westport. English and Australian mail arrived. • Manapouri leaves for Eastern Pacific tomorrow. The offer of a. training-ship for boys has teen declined by the Victorian Cabinet. Forty years ago on Saturday the first newspaper was started on the Thames goldfields by -Mr. Wilkinson, of Devonport., . The Victorian State Cabinet has decided to call for alternative tenders for £30,000 ■worth of rabbit wire netting in Australia an™Jingland. The Victorian Government has placed on the open market a large quantity of wirenetting manufactured by the convicts in Pentridge gaol. The Queensland Government has decided to make cream grading at butter factories compulsory, and that only certificated testers can be employed. There is at least one Chinese laundryman with a sense of humour in Wellington. The name of his firm, prominently exhibit- . Ed on the premises, is Wall Siting and Co. i , The expenditure on the repatriation of ' the kanakas in Queensland has amounted to £29,438, of which the State has contri--5 buted £17,570, the balance being paid by the Commonwealth. . The contractors have made a .start on the ' construction of the Wanganui tramways. The contract price is £'10i000 odd. The 6 . extension to the sea beach, which will cost jjp% .about £27,000, is now being considered. . .