NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13783, 23 June 1908, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

<■ • ' I'ns 8.1.5. N. Co.'s Sangola arrived at - Suva on June 6 with 1084 indentured Indian, immigrants. The inmates of the police- cells last night coiisifitodof three stowaways and one person arrested on, a charge of drunkenness. Labour is still scarce in the Kimbolton district. Workmen cling to the railway - . line, while farmers are crying out for labourers. A crop of pears in the Batlow district, , New South Wales, this year is reported to have yielded at the rate of £220 per acre. • ' Flax-cutting on the Moutoa swamp, near ." Fox ton, was suspended for the season last Tuesday. The work will be resumed in two months. The Victorian railway revenue for the 11 months ended May 31 was £3,737,882, a decrease of £138,548 as compared with the corresponding previous period. : The Native'' Appellate Court at Wairoa hits adjourned. The titles of six blocks' in! . abeyance for 40 years ha.ve now been settled, and, the natives ace gratified. .. . , ,' \ Several gumdiggere are gazetted British subjects:—Filip iirceg, Martin Franctovich, Tony Miocevich, Ture Perdija, Luka Piculo, and Peter Sumich, all of Mangawai. '- At the end of April butter was selling in , " Canada at Is 6d a pound wholesale. Nature ally .trade was restricted; especially in view of the fact that greatly increased supplies ;j were shortly expected." Wairarapa sheep-breeders state that with V the great aid which the present mild sea- : son-has given to - their stock next. season should see a considerable improvement, in the quality of the stuff which will be. put . oh the market. It is rumoured that a six-foot coal seam has been opened up at- Rongomai. In time this district (says the Master! on Times) ' will be a coal-mining centre, but people are a, little slow in developing cheap coal as a local industry.About 950 factories.have been registered, in Wellington for the ensuing year, which is : about 100 short of tuose registered last year. It is expected that about 250 new factories will be registered during the year, which will mean an, increase of 150 on the return for the previous twelve months. -,-■■ | There hTto be exhibited by the Depart- | V mentof Agriculture at Palmers-ton a model of a house—constructed on the open front :, principle—which for economy of eonstiujj-' ' . tion is said to he unrivalled. It is covered : ° with a patent asbestos material, which is. " said to he less costly than timber. ,