NEWS IN BRIEF

Waikato Independent, Volume VI, Issue 383, 8 June 1907, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF

Extra police are largely employed to meet the disorders in Ireland. All hopes for the missing military balloonists have now been abandoned. The New Zealand professional football team is due to arrive in England' about September. A concession by the French Government has led to the end of the naval reservists' strike. An English mail, via Suez, is due to arrive at Auckland, per Miowera from Sydney on Sunday. In Melbourne a breach of promise suit was heard last week, in which both the parties were over sixty years of age. The steamer Allanton, famous as one of the Russian captures during the late war, put into Auckland on Wednesday afternoon, owing to shortage of coal. New Customs regulations-issued in the United States wili remove many causes of irritation on the side of foreign exporters. Three or four Auckland footballers who are going with the professional team are amongst the foremost players in the colony. The latest London cable with regard to the new 'Frisco-Auckland-Sydney cargo service states that the vessels will carry American and British mails. Mr Millar stated in Dunedin, that he proposed to ask Parliament to authorise ,the creation ot Wages Boards, instead of the present Conciliation Boards. Eemarkable activity is-reported in the thermal district. The Blue Lake has risen twenty feet and the water of Lake Eotorua has lowered its level. The geysers are extremely active. D. C. Maclntyre, formerly superintendent of awards at the New Zealand Exhibition, and now at Monte Video, will be placed by Chief-Detective Mcllvcncy on board a steamer for New Zealand (via England) before the end of the present month.