NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 827, 27 May 1910, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

lUy 'felczrapS.-l'reas Association.! TOURIST DEPARTMENT. A SUCCESSFUL YEAR. . Christchureh, May ">6 tj m course of an interview, t'j, e lion. 1. Mackenzie stated that the Uounst Department had had a most successful year, and a good number of the country's resources iiad been turned > into profit. Up to tho end of last year '■ tho Department would show a net profit • of between £6000 and £7000. .At present he was anxious to do some more ■ work iu connection with Mount Cook ■ awl also to link up the road systems or tho East and West Coasts by a track ' over the mountains from tho Hermitage - to Copland Valley. When that was done, he believed it would form tho grandest tourist road in the world. The link required would not bo a long one, though somewhat difficult. Huts were being built on both sides, and with but a modest expenditure he expected J very good results. - LOSSES ON SHIPBOARD. SURVEYORS SUGGESTED. ; Christchurch, May 25. t At a meeting of business men to-day, ' tho question of the employment by im- ! porters of this city of the Marine Sur- _ yeyor at Lyttelton, to supervise the loading and unloading of cargo there was considered. In tho course of discussion it vraa stated that if a marine surveyor was ap- ■ pointed, many losses of a nature in re- . i speet of which the shipping companies I admitted no liability, would be obviated, J It was suggested that two marine sur- ) veyors were necessary. A committee was ) appointed' by the meeting to act vita, 1 the importers' committee of tho Cham- ■ 1 uer of Commerce in the matter.. j TENDERS' FOR "WIRELESS." : , 1 i NOW BEING CALLED. . Christchurch, May 21. Jhe Government i=. inviting offers fo* . the establishment and equipment of wireless stations in New Zealand. American '' fcncl European companies will bo "given " *?• °.PP° rhu ! if T t° tender, and tho' Prime ' . Minister status that no progress can be '■ reported in this respeot until tenders have been received. ' CHRISTCHURCH STATE OFFICES. . PEOPOSED CHANGES. . ' ' mi. ■ Christchurch, May 24. ine tiovcrnment's intentions in regard ■ ! to the erection of State buildings ia : uinstchiirch have undergone a change It is now proposed to concentrate all ' , Ucnartments except the Railways and lost Office as far as possible, and a bij block will be therefore erected. Sii Joseph Ward anticipates that the work ■ I ot erection will occupy two years. : . . BAY OF PLENTY LAND. .■■'■•: „ , Gisborrie, May 25, t . Mr. Jlaedonald, M.P., states that Cab. met has decided to take up the mortgage of settlors and carry on the work ' . of draining the Whakntane Swamp, which, cost about and so make available 85,000 acres of rich land. He estimate that tho land will be worth' ultimately .£25 an acre. This, with the acquisition of 100,000 acres- in -the Tjreb vera Country, near by, now under con- . sueration, Mr. Jtaedonald anticipates, will open a new era for tho Bav ot Plenty. WAIROA. BOROUGH LOAN , . ' Wairoa, May 25. The Stnto Guaranteed ' Advance* Board has granted provisioually to the , Wairoa Borough a loan of «£UOOO for ■ work on streets, footpaths,, and drainage. ; A poll takes place on June 7. MOTUEKA HARBOUa BOARD. .. ■:..... . ■ Nelson,. May. 25. ■ • At a meeting of the Motueka Harbour .." Board to-day, a report was received from the consulting engineer,, recom- ; mending the coustruction of a. new har- . bour at Moutere entrance, about two miles from the present site. The board adjourned consideration till Monday. PRICE OF HAIRCUTTING. Christchurch, May 25.. 1 The leading hairdressing" establish, ments here have practically come to an. ~' agreement to increase the price of hair- ". cutting to one shilling. ■ ; "ONE OF THE CRAVEST CRIMES. , * A VERY HEAVY SENTENCE, Auckland, May 26. In tho Supreme Court Mr. Justice Chapni.in, in sentencing William John Frederick Moore, a young man charged with a grave assault on a girl at Warkworth, described _ the offence as i one of the gravest crimes ever heard: of, being attended with a degree of ; brutality seldom heard of in the Do- , . minion. It was scarcely possible to conceive a worse case, so far as foul- , ' ness and cruelty were concerned.' Hβ . imposed a sentence of fourteen. years' .' 1 hard labour and ordered two floggingSj 1 each of twenty strokeb. I MORE'ABOUT MOUMAHAKI. Ghristchurch, May 20. , Speaking to a "Star" reporter con> . cerning recent incidents in connection, , with .Moumahaki Experimental Farm, the Hon. T. Mackenzie said he Ijad had to encounter great difficulties in the , ,Agricultural and Tourist Departments. : , since retrenchment had been carried, . out, largely owing to the disloyalty of . some officers and ex-officers. He was . ' glad to say now, however, that the officers were working heartily together ■ , in both Departments. i WHERE ARE WE DRIFTING? GhristclHircii, May 26. Speaking at the Provincial Conform.: i erme of the Farmers' Onion hero this .' ■ morning, Mr. Riohard Evans (prosi* 1 dent) said the. season had been th« , most disappointing lie bad ever known, : 1 particularly, after thp great expreta--1 tions of the spring. In many easus ■ grain might very well bavo beenbiunt. ■ After making more oi less political 1 references in a gloomy strain, Mr, - F.vans concluded: "I can only compare . I New Zealand to Uonie in'-tho'.flays ' 1 when Nero fiddled and people arouiul ■ him danced." GOVERNOR'S MOVEMENTS. '. Glirlatohurcli, May 26. The Governor, accompanied by the . Hon. J. A. Millar, arrived from Wei- . lington tins morning, and went -m to Dunediu by tho' early express. i CARNiVAU AT HASTINGS. '• Hastings, May 26. : A carnival on a smalt sculo. in lic-ing .' ' held this'week to provide funds for the ' ' improvement of tho school baths and ' grounds. A sale- «f work lias already resulted in the collection of £270, nnd it- is anticipated iho week's programme will result in a net profit of-£3OO. ' BOULDERS ON THE RAILWAY. . Coro, May. '2G. ■ i What looks liko a premeditated at-. tempt to wreck an express t-jiin was ■ '. made yesterday, when two' boiililors . ivero placccl on tho rails at Kingston crossing, a point twenty-five miles north of Gore. They caused tho front , wheels of the eiiginn to leave tho rails. ■ Tho occurrence is all the niovo extraordinary on account of thu fiict that half an" hour previously tho down express passed without mishap. Accord- . ■ ingly the stones must have been deposited in tho middle of the day. It should be easily uaced where the stones were lifted from as tho dis« trict is sparsely populated.