FAIR RENT BILL.

Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 16, 4 October 1901, Page 5

FAIR RENT BILL.

The Government does not intend to proceed with the Fair- Rent Bill this session. The Minister of Lands stated yesterday in the House that he had some doubt as to whether such a Bill would pass. He had been making enquiry about it, and found that there would be very little support for it. So much time having been wasted, he did not care to annoy the House for a night or two over a Bill which would have no chance of passing. He would prefer, therefore, to let the Bill stand over till people were educated up to it, and he was sure that it would then be passed into law.

In Palmerston North land suitable for dairying purposes still maintains a high value in all pai-ts of the district. The latest sale reported, viz., a farm at Bunnythorpe, ran up to ,£37 per acre, while sales at .£2B and 1 '.£20 have also taken place during the past few days. The two boys Adock, who alleged that they walked froiulnvercargill to see the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, and who received the lion - onr of being presented to their Royal Highnesses, have fallen from their high estate. On the'three charges of larceny preferred against them last week they have been committed to an Industrial school in •which institution another brother has been for seme time. It is sixty years since Mr John Plimmer arrived in Wellington, he having landed at Kaiwaria on Lt October, 1841. This hale old - pioneer of the Empire City is now in his ninetieth year. On the motion of Mi* Seddon, return has been ordered to be furnished to the House, giving the burgess rolls and valuations of each borough and county in the Colony, showing respect - tively the names and valuation of each ratepayer, the amount payablo under the capital and annual value, and the amount payable presuming the rating was on the unimproved value. A great deal of disatisfaction is said to exist in the minds of surgeons who have served long periods in . Volunteer corps at the taking over of their functions by the officers of the Health Department. It is recorded of one military medico in the South, however, that he recently called a parade of returned contingent men to satisfy himself that t.iey were not suffering from disease, and having managed to get 150 together and examine them, he sent in jtbill to the Government on the basis guinea per head— £l s-7 10s ! At Ballarat. Victoria, recently bullocks sold for £22 5s per head, and cows at <£l 5 12s 6d; calves -brought'«£6 18s. At Bendigo on the same date an extra prime cow brought .£2l ss, and another ,£lB. Notice to Breeders.—At the request of a large number of settlers.in this locality, the services of the well known thoroughbred horse Verseilles have been secured for the forthcoming season. The horse will visit Motueka, Riwaka, Pangatotara, Upper and Lower Moutereand other localities, and as the animal's pedigree is of the best, Ms services-should, be-in .demand.— Advt.