GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 80, 10 March 1916, Page 7

GENERAL.

i New Zealand produce entered for | export last 1 week was valued at £988,533, including wool £675,199; dairy produce, £98,155; meat, £90,330; hides and skins, £62,040.

The Wanganui Jockey Club has paid a. cheque .for £2962 5s 2d to the Government, representing the amount of taxation payable in connection with the recent meeting.

The Hawera Star states that tie directors of the South. Taranaki Winter Show have accepted the tender of Mr H. W. Lewis, for for the extension of the buildings, making the block one of the largest winter show buildings in the North Island.

I South Australia lias half-a-dozen women justices of the peace. The experiment was tried with four, and was found so successful that the ' Crawford-Vaughan Government now in office decided to increase the number,.

When seen yesterday regarding cabled statements concerning the Imperial Conference, Mr Massey said it was quite impossible for either Sir Joseph Ward or himself to be in London in May. More than this he could not say at present.

The railway working account for the four weeks ended February sth shows'; the following (shillings and pence omitted):—.Revenue— North Island, £233,711; South Island, £16!,020; total, £397,794. ExpenditureNorth Island, £121,469; South Island, £103,723; total, £225,192. The'percentage of revenue expended was 65. 21.

The local paper reported that at a wedding feast in Tailiape several of the party suffered from what had all the symptoms of poisoning. Beth the bride and bridegroom were among the sufFerers. A doctor was called in, and it was understood that all are now out of danger, and well on the road to recovery.

A farmer in the Inglewood district will take, .off his farm this year £3O per cow, reports the News. Calves are' not included, the money being made out of butter-fat and pigs. The cow's are of no particular breed, excepting - that - the Jersey-Shorthorn cross predominate. Inglewood land is improving considerably, and, just now,, wheri.nmny places are,, sulforing from lack of water, the country is looking fine. ....

The young men of the Mauriceville district are setting a noble example to other parts of the Dominion, says the Masterton Age. Nearly every one of them of military age has enlisted for service abroad .in defence of tho Empire. Nine-tenths of them are the sons of Scandinavians who came to New Zealand about 1870. These settled at Mauriceville and carved homes, for tthemselves front the recesses of the bush, TheiFsetectibris were small, but they worked hard and industriously, and reared families 'that are a credit to the .Dominion.. That the descendants of* pjoneer ' . se'ttlers from Norwav, SwsMeh, arid Denmark should now be rushing to the colors of Old England is a marked tribute to tho eolonising powers of the British Empire, and to the freedom of institutions that are built up under the protection of its Flag.