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Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 19, 15 October 1901, Page 3

Messrs Sclanders and Co, of Nelson, have disposed of their business to Messrs Levin and Co' Limited, of Wellington, who take possession on the 31st of next March. Messrs Sclanders and Go's business -was founded in 1842. A medical man expresses the opiirion that the exagggerated hats, overladen with ornaments, which many ladies now wear, are responsible for a good deal of the peevishness, fretfulness and incipient mental aberration which characterises so many of the fair sex who pride themselves on being always in the fashion. These women are liable to suffer from a peculiarly irritable kind of headache. It was two years on Wodnesday, 9th. since the Boer ultimatum was presented to the British Government, hostilities commencing on October 11th. At Wellington on Labour day the Premier announced that on the previous day "the Secretary to the Teeasury hact informed him that the receipts for the last six months were .£160,000 more than for the corresponding period last year. Mr T. Mackenzie is asking the Minister of Lands if he will favourably consider the question of introducing legislation for the granting of limited holdings after substantial improvements have been effected.

" We are doing very little tree-plant-ing, and this is one of the most serious mistakes we are making at the present time. There are vast tracts of country which might be planted now, and I think we ought to set apart lands for the purpose."—The Premier. Nr Seddon informed Mr McGuire yesterday that the Government intended to gore an increased quantity of ammunition to volunteers and rifle clubs. The Premier promised Mr T. Mackenzie yesterday that he would favourably consider the question of exempting from taxation lands used for tree planting, "We ought to have rifle ranges sea - ttered all over the country," said Mr Seddon. "A great deal more depends upon shooting than upon riding and drill." Mr Laurenson is asking for a return showing the area and value of land owned by the State, the freehold of which was disposed of between 1891 and 1901, and which has been let under lease in perpetuitv between 1891 and 1901. The Hon Mr Duncan is not in favor of making Land Boards elective, but he says that some alteration is required in the Wellington Land Board. Mr Seddon does not agree with MrNapier's suggestion that New Zealand should be called " a State," instead of ■'colony." -'lt's always the same, Auckland is always being left in the cold," plaintively remarked Mr Bollard last night,