NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1075, 17 December 1903, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

Per Press Association. TIMARU, last night.

A deputation.from a meeting of dairymen interviewed the Minister of Agriculture hero to-day. to ask that the testing of dairy cows for tuberculosis in this district bo postponed till Parliament reconsiders the law ; that if carried out the age limit and compensation be raised. It was stated that many farmers have obtained cows on credit from auctioneers and the latter, scared by what had been done in Christchurch, are pressing for payment before the inspector comes round. Mr Duncan, in reply, deprecated a scare. He read a return showing that at Christchurch only 40 out of 440 cattle inspected had been slaughtered, and if the work had to be done over again after the experience now gained not more than half that number would ‘bo condomned, and Christchurch milk farms were much more likely to be badly infected than country farms, He held out no'hope of age and value limits being raised. He was asked also that the farmer’be given whatever money was realised for the carcase, fnnd replied that this was generally a trifle swallowed by expenses. The Minister goes North this evening. . ~.. .THAMES, last night. Harry Phillips, injured recently by the wheels of a traction engine crushing his leg, died in the hospital to-day. Both legs were badly smashed. He was progressing satisfactorily when tetanus set in unexpectedly, and the case was hopeless. Mr Adams (of tile. High School), Messrs Adams and Morgan .{Thames School of Mines),. Mr P. hi organ fWaihi School of Mines),.Mr Thompson and Miss Koy (of the Thames High School), leave for Dunedin to the session of the Society for the Advancement of Science. It is estimated that recent drives of kauri logs, the result of freshes, brought down timber worth £70,000 from the hack country of the Thames CIIRISTCHTJRCI-I, last night.

’As the result of the inspection for tuberculosis, only six cows, _an abnormally low entry, occupied the dairy pens at Addington Kaleyards yesterday. Mr Duncan, Minister of Lands, will meet a deputation of dairymen re testing cows this evening. The owners of horses in Christchurch, and also the country districts of Canterbury, are somewhat alarmed* in connection with the disease that seems to have attacked horses in a severe form. The impression has got abroad that the disease is the dreaded pink-eye of Am-

lerlca.- An authority on the subject stated he had examined a large number of horses- that had been attacked, and expressed a decided opinion that the trouble was common influenza,- which had been prevalent among horses here for years. To-day is the fifty-third anniversary of the settlement of Canterbury province. A general holiday is being observed. The principal attractions in the city are the Christchurch Racing Club’s fixture and the Wheel 11 ace Meeting at Lancaster Park, at which Major Taylor is competing.