WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 699, 19 December 1902, Page 3

WELLINGTON NEWS.

Bv Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, yesterday. Judgment was reserved by tho Chid Justice yesterday afternoon in the appeal against the conviction of the lattcrsull sweep agents in AVeliington, who were recently fined. At a sale of Hutt suburban land yesterday, every section wac sold at an average prico of JLT2UO per acre. Tho total realissd £8079. The highest prico was £lO per foot. , , Mr T. 11. Coglan, the Now South Wales Government statistician, is on a visit to tho colony to inquire into the working of tho Old Ago Tensions Act. lie is much struck with tho economic manner in which the business is conducted arid the methods adopted to check imposition. The s.s. Devon, tho first of the direct steurners for South Africa, is expected to take 35,000 carcases of mutton, several thousand quarters pf beef, and large quantities of butter and poultry. With reference to tho steamer’s visit to Queensland, it is claimed that this is permissible under tho tcrtuH of the contract. Mr Cameron, Inspector of New Zealand Produce at Homo, reported on November 14th that the firHt lot of Now Zealand butter for tho season reached London by tho Whakatano on November Bth in splendid condition. Tho whole of it was from Auckland district. At the time of writing, buyers, in face of the large quantities of butter stored, were somewhat inclined to hold off tho market to see how things might settle before purchasing, Consequently, business was not active. Tho cheese market, however, was strong, and values likely to be maintained, as stocks are short. Mr Cameron again urges tho factories to make each dozon half wbito cheese and half colored.