EXPORT OF APPLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1411, 23 March 1905, Page 4

EXPORT OF APPLES.

[(To the Editor, Gisborne Times.) Sir, —I have to inform you that the Government has decided to guarantee Id net return per lb on shipments of applos from Now Zealand to London this season. Nor the purpose of this guarantee each sbipmont will be regarded as one lot. The quantity must bo large enough to fill tho chamber of the ship, Tbo grading and packing must ho done under tho supervision of this department. Shippers will have to muke all arrangements for collection, shipment, receiving in London, sales, eto.—l am, etc , T. W. Kirk, Biologist.

Captain Edwin reported yesterday : “ Moderate to strong winds from between north and west and south west; glass little movement ; ijides and sea moderate.” East Cape reported yesterday morning a fresh N.W. breeze, barometer 30.38, thermometer 65, blue cloudy sky, moderate sea. Tuesday’s Auckland Herald states : “ On the petition of the Great Northern [ Brewing Company, Limited, Herbert Subritzkv, hotelkeeper, of Awanui, was adjudicated a bankrupt yesterday by Mr Jusrioe Chapman.” News has been received of an outbreak of enteric fever at the Maori pa near Kawhia. Dr Jenkins, who iB in attendance. looks upon the outbreak a 3 of a serious nature.

Aa envelope was received at the University Office, Wellington, last Friday, from France, containing copies of a syllabus of some French courses of lectures, and addressed as follows (in French names): “ The Librarian, University, New Zealand, England.” And yet English people are sometimes taunted with the foreigner’s superior knowledge of the geography of the British Empire 1 Wo are on the eve of the general elec- j tion, and the Czar of tha colony, throwing off the evil influeuces of the Grand Dukes who have surrounded his throne, has stepped down from the Kidderminster o Wellington into the! slush of the back blocks to let tho settlers know that Godlin is thoir friend and not Short —that is Short as, personified by Mr Massey.— Oamaru Times.