NEW ZEALAND NEWS ITEMS'

Otago Witness, Issue 2896, 15 September 1909, Page 30

NEW ZEALAND NEWS ITEMS'

AUCKLAND. Some of the timber imJL at Northern Wairoa are now busily engaged fulfilling orders for southern and Australian markets. Several large shipments have recently been made, and this week the Dargaville Timber Co. will forward its first shipment to Australia by means of the s.s. Ennerdale, the loading of which vessel was commenced yesterday morning. Several vessels are expected shortly at Hoanga-, where about three .million" feet of timber, already disposed of, is stacked in the yards waiting incoming vessels, -whilst I understand that large shipments to oversea ports will be made this month. Generally speaking matters in connection with the timber trade have brightened up very considerably during the past few weeks. j The season 1909-1910 promises to be a record on as far as -the Piako district is ! concerned. Many additional farmers are ' going in for dairying, and agents for milking machines are doing good business. The Te Aroha Dairying Co. is growing rapidly. At its central factory at Waihou there are up to the present 12 additional suppliers this year, while for the month of August 11,8771b of butter were made as against 3175 less for the corresponding month last year. The Thameb Valley Co-operative Co., which has its headquarters at Paeroa, has acquired the business of the Manawaru Co. for the sum of £1700, and starts business there as from September 1. This should make for the prosperity of the industry, as a strong company will now carry on "the business. POVERTY BAT. " At a meeting of the Gisborne Oil Company it was reported that oil had . been struck at the -Waitati bore at 65ft. The well is pumping oil at present, but Ihere is a strong pressure of gas. The oil is of a high illuminating quality. . I HAWKE'S BAY. The public examination in bankruptcy «f John Jajnes Patterson, solicitor, of Dannevirke, was' commenced in the Supreme Court on the 13th, before Mr Justice Cooper. Bankrup* was examined at length as to various transactions. He eaid he did not know where Mrs Patterson was at present, but he would undertake to forward any communication to her within seven days. He believed she was in the 'Auckland province. The examination was adjourned till to-morrow,

WELLINGTON. The Wellington Crematorium, which is situated in the cemetery at Karori, was tested on the 9th, and" worked satisfactorily. Tlte temperature registered was 1500deg Fahrenheit. At a meeting of fhe shareholders in the Wellington Meat Company, held at Pahiatua, there was a ]«rge attendance, the Wairarapa and Manawatu districts being well represented. It was resolved that the question of a site for the freezing work* be left to the permanent directors to decide, and that they confine their report to the Wellington and Wairarapa sites. ' During the' past season the Marine Department «>ld 960,000 brown trout ova to the following acclimatisation societies : — Wellington, 400,000 ; Greymouth, 200,000 ; Southland. 100,000; Nelson, 100,000; Hawke's Bay, 60,000; Oamaru. 50.000; Marlborough, 40,000; Stratford, 10,000. The ova, which was obtained from the Otago and Canterbury rivers, was sold to the societies at 5s per 1000. The Marine Department states that the demand for rock oysters, which was so great at the beginning of the season that orders could not be fulfilled quickly enough, has fallen off to such an extent that some of the pickers have had to l>e discharged. The season closes at the end of n-ext month. Mr C. T. Lee. chairman of the Wanganui Branch of the Enginemen, Firemen, and Cleaners' Association, has written to Mr W. .A. VeJtob, concprnitiir the locomotive men's opinion of that gentleman's resignation of hi? seat on the Railway Appeal Board, and on behalf of the locomotive men. challenging Mr Veitch to allow himself to be asrain nominated for the position. Mr Lee himself has beennominated as a candidate.

The Czar runs the school of dancing at the Imperial " theatres in St. Petersburg. The London Standard publishes some interesting facts regarding his share in the matter. The school cc«ts £500,000 a year — drawn from the Royal Treasury. Anyone —male or female — can join the classes. Between nine' and 12 years is the a#e for joining, and five to eight years is the term of tuition. Twenty years is the period allowed for appearances, and then the dancers reHre on a pension. Mdlle. Anna Pavlova is the present premiere danseuse. Officials, dairy inspectors, experts, instructors, managers, dairy farmers, and medical men advocate the Hartnett milking machine. — Nimmo and Blair,