NEW ZEALAND.
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Saturday. Dr Mason telegraphs to the ActingPremier that the condition of Shields, at Christchurch, supposed to -hj suffering from plague, continues to improve. The Acting-Premier will go to Nelson on Monday, and return on Wednesday to meet the return troopers on the fpllowing day, and will leave for ■Westport on Friday. Speaking at a re-union of the Carpenters’ Society, Sir Joseph Ward said that, while the conservation of Fmber was desirable, it was aiso necessary that the land should be cleared to make it adequately product '.e to ma’iitain settlers ou their smal. boldines, He referred to the gigaiu e combine of the mercantile marine of America, and declared we should hare an Imperial zollverein—a combination that would enable us to compete successfully witli anyone who would wrest our supremacy from us. Pie believed i:i Ihe end there would he three treat com tries in the world—Great Britain, America, and Russia. The ActingPremier made passing reference to the A?,glo-Japane.se treaty, and said there must he some powerful menace in ilie world’s future prospects to impel BA tain to enter into an arrangement wheieby she is obliged to go unreservedly to war with any country which went to war with Japan.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 413, 12 May 1902, Page 4
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