NEWS IN BRIEF.

Waikato Independent, Volume VII, Issue 462, 18 January 1908, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A holy war against Europeans is (eared in Morocco. Two more earthquake shocks haye been felt at Rotorua, The Australian cricketers won the third test match by 245 runs. An Italian farm colony is to be established in Westralia. The United States fleet, on its voyage to ’Frisco, has reached Rio. Welcome rain has fallen at Ashburton and Oamaru. At,the Boyerton fire, men beat down women and children in their efforts to escape. The Elingamite gold-seeking expedition has, returned, and the venture wilt now be abandoned. Details of the Boyerton Theatre tragedy show that 167 bpdie 5 have, been recovered. At Auckland, John Sheehan and Bent Duncan were sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for sly grog selling. Captain Hobson says that President Roosevelt' wishes a year . appropriated for the building of Dread- . noughts. At Wellington, James Malachy Sheridan was committed for trial, for the murder of John William McNally on January 3rd., The Hon. James Carroll (Native Minister) states that at Taumarunui, and the district surrounding, settlement is going 3n apace. People are visiting there every % day in search of land. It is said that the number of Chinese in the goldfields district of Otago, is steadily decreasing, and that in a year or two there will be very few indeed, where formerly they were numerous. Says the Manawatu Standard The new Shops and Offices Act came into force on Monday last, and in accordance with its provisions the tobacconists closed their premises at 7 o’clock. The effect of the drought last year on the dairying industry is seen in the fact that payments for milk supplied to the Taieri and Peninsular Co.’s factory at Oamaru amounted to only a little over (£27,000 for ; 1907, as compared with (£47,000 for 1906.