MANAWATU SHOW.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1051, 19 November 1903, Page 1

MANAWATU SHOW.

.(Per Prc»s Association.) PALMERSTON N., last night,

Tho Manuwatu A. and P. Show commenced to-day. The weather was wet during tho morning, but clearod off at noon, and this afternoon had every appearance of continuing fine. Judging today was confined to homo industries, produce, horticultural, poultry and pigs. For the three former sections the entries wore not particularly numerous, and the quality of the exhibits did not arouse tho enthusiasm of the judges. There are over 400 entries in poultry, and tho quality generally is very fair, Some of tho classes aro (exceptionally good. Tho North Island Poultry Association Championship for white Wynndotto cock' and pullet was awarded to Ji. B. McGuiro, Wellington, and Geo. Hight, Kongotea, respectively. There is a very'fine show of implements, dairy machinery, and vehicles,

Burglars entered Mr H. G. Lewis’ jeweller’s shop at Tamworth, New South Wales, recently, and stolo £2OO worth of jewellery. The official eslimato of tho Queensland sugar output for the current year is 100,000 tons, an increase of 30,000 tons on the previous year. The annual consumption of tobacco in this colony in its three most popular forms is approximately as follows: Cigars 7,500,000, cigarottos 67,000,000, tobacco 1,657,3231 b.

A Ballarat (Victoria) ex-constable has left 12250 to the local hospital, £ISOO and 77 acres of land to an orphan asylum, £SO to his daughter, and 12s a week and a house to his widow. Charity didn’t begin at home with the constable.

The member for Bay of Plenty on the Government j If the settlers themselves were given the money to expend they would have roads made so that they might bo ablo to get away their produce to market. That is what is the great fault of the Government, and what will kill it in tho end—namely, its wretched administration.

In many respects, we claim to have given Australia the lead in what we aro pleased to call social democratic legislation, and if that is so. then Now Zealand, from Lord Lonsdale’s point of view, must be even worse than Australia.—Wanganui Chronicle.

The Lord Mayor of Sydney ha? received from Rear-Admiral Hikonjo Kamimura a letter acknowledging the hospitality extended him whilst the Japanese squadron was in the waters of Port Jackson, The Executive Committee of tho New South Wales Chamber of Mines has passod a resolution affirming that it. is in the highest degree important that the Commonwealth should be represented at the St. Louis World’s Fair* 1904.

A shorthorn heifer, belonging to Mr ETate, of Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales, has just put up an extraordinary milking record, yielding in a test taken in connection with a show 544-lb of milk in two milkings. Rating on unimproved values is the gentle purgative of land monopoly which we invito our readers to freely discuss, for it is a question upon which they will be asked to express an opinion by ballot before long.—Dargaville Bell. During a discussion at the Anglican Synod in Dunedin, exception was taken by several speakers to the statement made by the Premier that the clergy wore not sincere in their desire to give religious in-, struction in public schools. One speaker complained that he had heen refused permission by one school committee to give instruction unless he signed a declaration that the instruction given would be of an undenominational charactor, and a clergyman of another denomination, having given the requisite pledge, was allowed entry into the school. Bishop Nevill suggested that a memorial should be drawn up, and forwarded to the Premier, pointing out the difficulty which the clergy labored under in gaining access to the schools, aod their intense desire to impart to the children of their people the teachings of their Church,