TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2019, 2 March 1907, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. AUCKLAND, yesterday. A mooting of dairy factory managers and others interested in the butter industry resolved to ask the Minister of Agriculture to appoint a number of qualified milk inspectors, with power to forbid the sale or purchase of milk unfit for dairy manufacturing purposes. Following upon the outcry against the erection of wooden buildings on the Auckland railway station, adjoining valuable city properties, the City Council forwarded a protest, and urged the Government to erect new railway buildings. In the meantime the Minister of Works has given instructions that the work he suspended on the wooden structure, which is intended as an engineer’s office. WELLINGTON; yesterday. A meeting of the general committee of the Seddon memorial movement was held last night to discuss the position now existing with regard to perpetuation of the late Premier’s memory. The Mayor said the statement that' the* committee bad allowed the matter to cool down was not creditable to those who made it.,'for Mr. Seddon loomed large enough in New Zealand not to be forgotten in a few months. The Hon. T. K. McDonald said the committee Was not to blame for any delay that had taken place. It had been doing its best to force from the Government some answer to the expressions of opinion received from all over the colony. Tlio City Council of Wellington, in supporting the project for a national technical college, had offered an endowment amounting to £13,(10U, and the committe estimated that they could get from eight to ten thousand pounds in subscriptions. This, with the Government subsidy, would mean £40,000. Yet the Government retuscd to give the land for the College at Mount Cook, where in the centre of tho city ten acres remained vacant. He appealed to the Government to reconsider its decision. The Hon. Dr. Findlay said tlio Government had to consider the interest of the whole colony, and it was largely a recognition of ■ that fact which made Mr. Seddon resist granting the Mount 'Cook site for any but public requirements. After a long discussion it was resolved that a monument be erected in the city to Mr. Seddon s At a meeting of the Wellington Trades and Labor Council last night the following resolution was passed: "That this Council re-affirms the polio v of a White New Zealand and regrets to note the fact that certain hotel-keepers in Wellington are making an attack on this policy by tbeir determination to employ Chinese in preference to Europeans.. CHRISTCHURCH, yesterday. The delegate representatives to the annual meeting of the Press Association held yesterday, were entertained at lunch to-day by the Times and Press Companies in the Ministerial rooms at the Exhibition. Tho Hons. Hall-Jones and Fowlds were amongst the guests. INVERCARGILL, yesterday, j An offort 1 is being made by a section Of drapers to revert to 10 o’clock closing. The Labor Department, in a letter to the Council, states that it appears a majority do not support the change, and until tho Council is satisfied such is the case they would not be-' justified in issuing a certificate. No action was taken. The Engineer submitted a report to the Council on a water supply for Invercargill, drawn from the Oreti River at Dipton, 37 miles from town. The estimated cost of all the works is about £IOO,OOO, giving a supply ot one milion gallons every 24 hours. The present supply from a well is 300,000 gallons a day, Looking to the immediate ..future the Engineer recommends the Council to ascertain the cost of putting down a trial bore of 1000 to 1200 feet to obtain an artesian supply. The cost would probabfy mot exceed £IOOO or £I2OO, and if successful the bore would solve the problem of supply for many years. As an alternative he suggests a second well and to drive at a cost ot £SOOO. The matter was referred to the Water Committee. DUNEDIN, yesterday. For the month of February the Customs duties collected at Dunedin totalled £38,594, against £29,287 for tho corresponding month of last year. The beer duty was £2748 (£2493 last year), gold export 12,6460z5., valued ‘at £51,319, against 91860z5., valued at £36, 621, for February, 1906. The Greater Dunedin valuations show that the rateable value "has increased from £3f3,316 m 1906-7 to £386,510 in 1907-8. The hull of the barque Marguerite Mirabaud was sold for £lOl to Geddes and Hopkins, of Dunedin, and the cargo sold for £420 to John Nelson, Of Milton. Tho officers and crew sail on Sunday for Melbourne. In the Police Court Tlios. Goughian was committed to trial for forging a telegram, anil thus obtaining £o, from a hotelkeeper.

NATIVE LAND COMMISSION. NAPIER, yesterday. The Native Lands Cmmission will leave liere for tire Nortli on Monday, and hold meetings at Tangoio, Tutira, and Mohaka, going from there on to and tbonce to Gisborne, Morore, and Nnkaka. They will bo accompanied by Mr. A. L. D. Irasorto look after the Native interests. On this trip the Commission will not go further north than Gisborne, but will return from that place and go straight on to Wanganui.

MINING RETURNS. ‘ THAMES, last night. During the past month the Waiota hi Company crushed 1536 tons of quartz and 6ewt. of picked stone for 70210z5. smelted gold, valued at £IB,BBB, bringing the total to date to £528,094. Of this amount £345,010 has been taken from the mine since the beginning of 1905, when a rich patch was struck. The dividends paid amount to £211,800.

DROWNED IN WELL. AUCKLAND, last night. A Maori girl named Wain, four years old, was drowned in a well near her father’s residence noar Paeroa yesterday.

MUNICIPAL ABATTOIRS. WELLINGTON, last night. Tho Wellington • City Council tonight adopted a resolution in favor of purchasing at £3700 a site between Ngali'auranga and Johnsonvillo for municipal abattoirs. A LIBEL ACTION. WELLINGTON, last night. At Otaki to-day R. J. Staveley was granted leave by the stipendiary magistrate to proceed against A. C. Morton, under tho criminal code, in respect f an alleged libel contained in a letter to the Otaki Mail. ALLEGED MURDER. WELLINGTON, last night. Matilda Morris, a domestic servant; 26 years old, was committed to the Supreme Court for trial on a chargo of having murdered her illegitimate child.