TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1923, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

i UV ITiI.KIiItACK—OKU I’IIESS ASSOCIATION] TIMA I! I ’ WOOL SALK. TIAIARC, .March 12. The third wool sale of the season was held to-day when 51JG! bales were offerid, of which 1,12 were passed in unsold, i he selection of wool was below the average, consisting mostly of thinly grown wools carrying a fair amount of condition, and somewhat dirty in a p pea ranee. Competition was somewhat irregular, and the market was somewhat irregular, and the market was, generally speaking, about a penny per lh. below the sale held In Dunedin last weak hut this may he accounted for h.v the poor quality of the wools offering. There was a l ull at lend.me' ol the trade, and i nmpet il ion was general. The hulk of the offering was pureluisetl hy Bradford, with good competition for the better class wools hy local mill-. America was interested in a!; bright jots, well grown, hut as iV ■ ■ were few such lines her competition was not very general. The market was not really down, the wool being pour compared with the previous offerings, and it is usual to get poorer wools towards the end of the season. Prices and oddments declined Id to 2d hut t rutehiligs were in very keen demand, and sold exceptionally well, DEEP SEA ANGLING. ACCKI.AND March 11. Sn -eimeiis of kinglish. swordfish, and makn shark are now being obtained at Russ.'il for inclusion in the fisheries exhibit to lie sent to the British Empire Exhibition. The fish will he set in blocks oi" ice. and will doubtless prove n splendid advertisement for the Dominion’s deep sea angling. The Chief Inspector cl Fisheries i Mr L. F. Ay-on) is giving the preparation of the fisheries exhibit his personal attention. FETCHE. OF LIBERALISM. DUNEDIN. March 11. Air J. Edie. ALP. for Clutlia. was intertained at a social at Balclutha ast night. The tikeis tncludi d Messrs Kid'.y. De la I’eielle, and Alaeihetson, Al.P.'s. Air Sidey. who apologised for the a' - j cnee of Air W’iiforl. sa d that daring I he last eh atom a good many eye-, were timed on ( lutha. boettu-e it was known hat one Af.P. would have to be j ropped. Air Edit 1 , in a short n 1 ii ;•! arcer. Led distinguished him-cl: Be inning two seats for the party, first j t Bruce and then at Cluthn. At ;!•" i ist election the Liberal Party received great accession of strength, and ineacl of Liberalism being dead", as they ere told hv some newspapers, it had mie to life as a strong and more vital tree than it- had been for years. Whnfc '

its future would be was not for him to say. They had almost reached the parting of the ways with Labour, although tlie Liberal Party had given the greatest encouragement to the working class movement in the past. They had heon taunted with not holding out the hand for a fusion with the Massey Party, but the Liberal Party, by doing that, would lose its individuality, and it had to consider the needs of the people and of ihe future. Personal ambition for office had to he put aside, and the good of the country alone considered. Mr do la Perrelle said that the Liberals were out for the country’s good, and were determined to do their duty to the country first and to the party fterwards.

N.S. ARTIST IN JAMAICA. WELLINGTON. March 11. ATr C. B. Howartli. the well-known artist and engineer, who left New Zealand about a year ago to do engineering work for the Jamaica Government, has returned to Wellington. He found the Jamaica climate much too trying. While there he sold some C2OO worffh of Ii is pictures. “Jamaica.” lie slid, “is no niece for an artist, as no one can paint in the open. You most sketch in the shade somewhere, and then it is not too comfortable, owing to the teeming iqsoet lif<- of the eeout'V. T man need to locate some intere ting places, notably Month"! R"v cud Port Antonio, both of which have a warm piratical history, and iu time f will turn out some canvases that may interest. The place, with its wealth of tropical vegetation. banana, and coeoainit palms, orange ;tml I'-mcn groves, grape fruit trees etc., present vstas of glowing colour, and \ irieMe outline. The island is well loaded, red the good so -

faces make motoring a real pleasure.” Mr Howarth said that it was rather surprising that New Zealand did not attempt to cultivate trade with Jamaica. He felt sure there was businesse to he done there, for. apait from the restricted white population, the negioes were, as a rule, well-to-do, and li.od well. The'trade had been thought cf sufficient importan o for a Canadian Trade Commissioner to he sent down whilst lie v.as there.