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The Minister of Agriculture has given notice that the Dairy Industry Act comes into operation on March 1, and that it will be strictly enforced. As the provisions of the Act are very stringent and the penalties heavy, we give a brief summary for the benefit of farmers, dairyke.epers, dealers in dairy produce, exporters, and others who may be interested. The interpretation covers ne less than thirteen descriptions of butter and cheese according to the treatment of the milk from which they are produced—as, for example, ! butter fat, blended butter, separator ! batter, full cream cheese, quarter skim milk cheese, half skim milk cheese, pure skim milk cheese, etc. Section 4 provides for the appointment of inspectors by the Governor, also for authority ( to the inspectors to have all the powers given to inspectors under " The Adul- ( teration Prevention Act, 1880." By clause 5 a trade mark is made compulsory to be registered under the Patent Designs and Trade Mark Act of 1889. It is also provided that expoft butter and cheese must be marked, refusal or neglect in this particular entailing a penalty not exceeding £50, or less, than £2, Every keg, box, or package must be marked " New Zealand dairy," or factory, or creamery, as the case may be. For butter pats " N.Z." may bs used instead of the words " New Zealand." Any person who exports, or causes, or procures, or offers to export any of the articles required to be so stamped, if not so stamped, will be be liable to a penalty not exceeding £100 and not less than £5. Persons selling the milk of a diseased animal to a dairy or factory are liable to a fine of £10 and not less than £.2. " Did eased animal" is covered by the definitions in the Stock Act of 1891. The person on whosa behalf the milk is sold is liable. Inspectors have authority to cause an analysis of milk to be made, to require a certificate of milk tests from the owners of dairy factories!, and to take samples from any milk for the purposes of test. Breaches are liable to a penalty of £20, except where otherwise provided for. All penalties are recoverable summarily.

Tub telegraphic correspondence which has passed between the Hon S. E. Shrimski and the Premier, anent the objection taken to M;« proposed immigration of Russian J wws, is creditable to both parties, in that Mr Shrimski very properly urges that his coreligionists (we might almost write compatriots—for if we do not mistake Mr Shrimski is a Polish Jew) ought not to be subject to any disabilities, either on account of their religion or nationality, and in that the Premier, while admitting this, at the same time objects to New Zealand being flooded with paupers. Mr Shrimski himself would, we are sure, agree with Mr Baliance's contention that pauper immigration is undesirable, and if the Premier's supposition that the intending immigrants are of ttiat class could be shown to be a correct one, then there would be nothing more to be said. But according to the Rev Mr Ohodowdki, the highly respected Rabbi of the Canterbury Hebrew congregation, whose utterances are entitled to great weight, this is not so, and those who have been writing and speaki<ig against the threatened Hebrew incursion have been " barking up the wrong tree." For according to Mr Chodowski there is " a total misunderstanding of the class of people it v proposed to send out." He goes on to say that " these Russian Jews are chiefly agriculturists and handicraftsmen, and highly moral and well-conducted," and points out that " most of those who will be sent out will have a small amount of capital to start with, either of their own or provided by friends." That is a horse of another color altogether, and if Mr Chodowski is correctly informed, then certainly any embargo against theae people coming hither ought at once to bq removed, for everybody admits that Jews are to the full as law-abiding as Christians, that many of them are most excellent and estimable colonists, and under the British flag neither creed nor race should be any bar to the full privilege of citizenship. Evidently there has been a misapprehension as to the facts of the case, and we feel confident that on being convinced of this the Government will instruct the Agent-General accordingly.

The motion for a writ of habeas corpus in Wellington by Mr Yogel, as solicitor for one John Aldridge, now undergoing a sentence of five years for forgery, will bring to a test the question of the validity of the sentences imposed and judgments given by Mr Edwards, while acting as a Judge of the Supreme Court. The appointment of Mr Edwards having been held ultra vii es, and he having ceased to act as a Judge, the present proceedings are being taken on the ground that Mr Edwards was not and never hja been; a Judge of the Supreme Court, and, therefore, had no power to impose any sentence or give any judgment, and if that contention be upheld then not ' only, we imagine, must Aldridge be released, but so also any and all other prisoners committed on Mr Edwards' warrant, and indeed it would seem that each and all of these may have a right of action for false imprisonment. Tfie position is a very unsatisfactory One and ought never to have occurred, for the difficulty could and should have been provided for by legislation last sessipn. "V^e should suppose that the (Government will think it their duty, in view of what h^s occurred, to submit a Yalidatin^ Bi}l next session, and, seeing that Mr Edwards, contends that there are two or three qther Judgeg whose appointments are open to challenge, it would surely be well, bo remove ail possible chance of future complications, to make the measure wide enough to cover the case of the Judges referred to as well as that of Mr Edwards.

ftiessra Colemane and ifonf, JSupalypji Extract (map'jifaeturod at ACittagong and Pootaniuntira,, Ijlew South Walesf has aj-tainpd a reputati«if«» a specific for affectiops "o« (th> Phfist, !{>»»»? (consumptions astfima, diphtheria, and a variety of ftthpr copiplainfa. Jt numbers among its palrops $arl Jersey, thp present, and Lord (Jarring; too, late, Governor of $ew $outh Wales, while in Great Jirtyajn dvring the influenza medjmip sparsely a hopse pr oflSce waa wf th, out Jit. Mesara Colenrane and Sons' whole, sale depot is in Christchurch. Sharland and Co. are wholesale agents for the North