DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 139, 4 August 1911, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

o— RACE CARD APPEAL. (Per Press Association.) Christchurch, August 3. Alexander Wilder, wlio was recently fined .Silt) and costs for having printed a racccaid containing betting udermation, intends to appeal against the Magistrate’s dccision. N ()XJ OUS WEEI)S REG ULATIONS'. ' " \ Dunedin, August 3. In replying to a deputation to-day, the Hon. T. lUaekon/.io said lie had been gathering a great deal of information regaining the Canadian thistle, and ho had evidence of its usefulness mi fodder at certain seasons. He contemplated an alteration in tho Noxious Weeds Act. Tho first schedule contained a list of weeds which spread, and which must he chocked; in tho second schedule were weeds which, on a resolution of a local body, might be transferred to the first schedno. It was his intention this session to submit legislation to have tho Act amended to allow certain woods in schedule one to be transferred to schedule two, giving power of transference-to tiro local body either way. MAORI LICENSING POLL. Wellington, August 3. The poll of the Maoris on tho local option question is to ho taken in Takitimn Maori district on Thursday, September 14. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. Wellington, August 3. The value of imports into Now Zealand during the quarter ended June 30th was £4,319,518, compared with £3,456,879 in the corresponding quarter of 1910. Tho value of tho exports last quarter was £1,738,369, compared with £5,714,578 in tho corresponding quarter of last year. ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES. Wellington, August 3. Tho arrivals in Now Zealand from oversea last June numbered 1909, and departures from the Dominion 3276. In June, 1910, the figures were: Arrivals 1974, departures 2452. TIMARU DAIRY COMPANY PURCHASED. Timaru, August 3. Mr. W. H. Jakins, proprietor of the Canterbury Dairy Company, Christchurch, has purenasod the Timaru Dairy Factory and associated creameries. DUNEDIN LABOUR CANDIDATES. Dunedin, August 3. At a mooting of tho South Dunedin branch of the New Zealand Labour Party to-night the following candidates were selected for the general election:—Dunedin North, Mr. A. Barclay; Dunedin Central, Mr. C. W. Fisher; Dunedin South, Mr. A. If. Jackson. SPORTS AND SOLDIERING. Auckland, August 3. There is much concern in sports and athletic circles at tho possibility of serious interference, both with summer and winter games, by compulsory military training, on account of the half-day and whole day parades being fixed for statutory half-holidays, the effect being to debar all young men eligible for military training from participating in the sport with which they are identified. It is locally held that military training will increase the difficulties of clubs and prove detrimental to all sport, especially summer pastimes. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. Christchurch, August 3. Arrangements are being made for a further supply of Siberian dogs for the British Antarctic expedition, and they arc expected to arrive at Lyttelton about the end of October. They will, with tho Indian mules which will ho shipped shortly from Calcutta, bo convoyed to Captain Scott’s base by the Terra Nova, which will leave Lyttelton about the end of the year. THE GRASS GRUB. Christchurch, August 3. A conference of farmers held at Horrellvillo to-day discussed tho grass grub. It was stated that the profits of farmers had boon decreased by *SO per cent, as a result of the ravages of tho grub. Tho only suggestion as to how to cope with the grub that was considered as likely to bo of any use, was that small birds should ho allowed a free hand for a year or two. TARDY TERRITORIALS. Wellington, August 3. William Cornish, the youth who served twenty-one days’ imprisonment for failing to register as’ a Territorial, was released from gaol this morning. Tho intended demonstration from the prison gate did not eventuate. He will be presented at tho Socialists’ Hall to-morrow evening with two medals, one from tho Christchurch AnnMilitary League, and another fro n the Runanga Miners’ Union.