Brevities.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 5120, 13 June 1907, Page 2

Brevities.

The Japanese are enquiring in New South Wales for wheat of fair average quality. • Tho Siberian butter is snid to be “ telling fearfully ” against colonial butter on tho London market.

The Ashburton County Council has bought the tails of 3G4 rats since tho boginning of March. It is reported that Mr Smell, of Wheatstone, Ashburton, has recently sold a lino of COOO bushels of wheat at 3s lOd per bushel. During the present reason the Parkvale (Wairarapa) Factory has manufactured 299 tons of cheese.. Six years ago the output was 92 tons. A reoord performance has been carried out by a Chicago Justice of the Peace. He married Mr James Brady and Miss Helen Siler in two and a half minutes.

Owing to tho prospects of iron ore at Parapara, says the New Plymouth Herald , it is stated that tho land has gone up from lfis to £3O and £4O per acre.

Whilo working in the cemetery at Rene, San Francisco, last month, a grave digger struck a four feet reef of gold Assays gnvo a value of £2O to tho ton.

Tho Union Steam Ship Company have placed an order with Doxford and Sous for a 4000-tou turret steamer. The new steumer should reach the eoloDy iu tho beginning of 1903. The schooner La Julouse, bound from Cayenne for St. Lucia, was swamped and capsized off Barbadoes. Of the passengers, 21 were landed, and 28 drowned, including 12 women and children.

Christina Clark, ex-general secrotary of tho Now South Wales Tomperance Alliance, sued William Winn, a member of tho Alliance, for £IOOO damages for statements reflecting on her moral character. Tho jury awarded her £650. It is reported that the owners of three of the large estates in the Amuri district are takiug the preliminary Bteps towards having their properties cut up for closer settlement.

The cut through the Boulder Bank at Nelson is proving so successful that the pilot says that he is confident that steamern of the Gothic class could be taken into the port without difficulty.

A fresh ballot at Woolwich favoured the discontinuance of the five days of work system. The men prefer to bo discharged rather than that their comrados should make further saorifioe. A man was arrested at Makatote last Wednesday by Constable Montgomery on a charge of having imposed on residents there by selling cold tea as whisky. It is stated that ho sold seven bottles in all, charging £1 per bottle.

Benjamin Rows well, a man about 42 years of ago, committed suicide at Auckland, last night. Ho was a medical man, and had bocn travelling in the South Sea Islands, more especially with a view to studying elephantiasis. As a proof of the lasting qualities of certain kinds of New Zealand timber, Mr Vangioni, of Akaroa, has some yellow pine, part of a dwelling recently pulled down, which was built by the late Mr Waeekerlie, one of the early French settlors, in 1842. Tho timber in question is as sound as when first used 05 years ago.

One of the Exhibition seals last week gave two young men who were shooting rabbits on tbe south branch of the Waimakariri a considerable fright. He ro6C out of the river and raised so loud a protest that both -men took to their heels. A farmer near by, who has had some bags of potatoes in a field disturbed and scattered, blames the seal. Tanner’s ark left Sumner on Tuosday last f »r Timaru, and sinco then no word has been received as to the whereabouts of the party on board, which included

lan nor himself, two Christchurch young men named S. Hudson and C. Davis, two from Wellington named J. Dean and W. Wilson and a now arrival from the Home Country named Albert Edwards, who wont as oook.