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Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 9, 10 September 1901, Page 4

The Patea election petition will be heard by the Chief Justice and Judge Williams at Wanganui on the 24th September. The total indebtedness of Australasia. to British capitalists is estimated by a Sydney financier, who has ma.de particular inquiry into the matter, at three bundl ed and thirty-eight million pounds. The Americans are satisfied that they possess a larger number of highclass Jersey cattle than is to be found in England, while they are pleased to affirm that the stock in Fngland in turn surpasses that m the native Channel Island. As regards numbers, says the Field, the calculation is probably not far wide of the mark ; but it is not easy to believe that either America or England can excel the island in respect to the quality and purity of the cattle. At all events, both countries keep returning to the island for fresh supplies of replenching stock; and so long as Jersey is recognised as the fountain head, it is unlikely that the blood and stock obtainable there can be inferior in quality and impressive influence towhat exists abroad. When Lord Kitchener and General Botha met at Mid die burg, the two Generals with their staffs were pbotograbhed together. At that very moment De Wet was fleeing for his life, and indignantly refused to believe that Botha would treat with the British. A copy of the Middle burg photograph was shown him as a proof of the fact that there had been a conference betweed Botha and Kitchener. De Wet took the photograph with him to a meeting of his burghers. “ Look,” said he, displaying the photograph. “ and see how the Lord has blessed our arms. Lord Kitchener has been taken prisoner by Louis Botha, and here,” waving the photograph, “ is positive proof of it.” A correspondent of a Chriitchureh paper reports a shameful and contemptible action which took place in that city. The other week while the snow was falling thickly, and the weather was bitterly cold, a household family JL -father, mother and four children, only one earning 4s —had all their little belongings carried off at the instance of the landlord for the payment of a sum under £5. "‘Talk about Highland and Irish evictions, ’’concluded the correspondent, “why, they are being carried out at your very doors under your boasted New Zealand legislation. ”