NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13724, 14 April 1908, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Aeon due from 'Frisco. • Mokoia left for Sydney. Talnne for Fiji to-morrow. Manuka left for the South. Canadian mail leaves to-morrow. Devffn arrived from Britain and Australia Manaponri for the Eastern Pacific toaiorrov.". /. Dming the last few days the peaks of the Tararoas have been wrapped in enow. The once despised leather-jacket has beooma a favourite fish with the Sydney public. • During March 879,270 passengers were carried over the Chmfcchurch -tramway : system. Sheep are dying in the Merriwa district, New South Wales, through being infected with the lung worm. Some queer things are done in the country. The youths of Opunake recently held ~/» .football club meeting in the lockup. Charters Towers (Queensland) mining companies are asking the State Government for £25,000 to assist in deep sinking. " .A resident of Nelson has maize growing to a height of 15ft. The Mail says the growth probably forms a record for New Zealand. In addition to two cases of leprosy among the natives at Cygnet Bay, West Australia, one of which proved fatal, another case is reported from Derby. A Hawke's Bay resident is offering £100 reward for information that will lead to the conviction of the persons who have taken nearly 500 of his sheep since January. A farmer on the outskirts of the Tinwald district, Canterbury, reportr having ;:o. ' ; just sold a line of 12.12 bushels of Tuscan f: heat, on trucks, at Winslow, at 4s 5d per bushel. • ■ An Indian mutiny veteran named Denis Kennedy, aged 86, died at Rozelle, Sydney, on April 4. :He served throughout the ; mutiny and belonged to the Bengal Infanyk: try. During the great campaign he had >/: ' his right eye shot out and his right arm \ ' blown off. He had been a pensioner since 1858.