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n e During the last three months of I- last year 157 vessels from oversea n arrived in New Zealand ports, with o 277,271 tons of cargo, the totail for the whole year being 629 vessels, with 1,080, 366 tons of cargo. The t totals for 1903 wero 617 vessels and 999,116 tons of cargo. The vessels u cleared outwards during thn quarter y number 147, Iho cargo 'taken away being 233,552 tons. For Ihe whole g year the clearances were 608 ships and 1, 010,778 tons of cargo. Consideralbe interest has been aroused among a small community of g Christian Israelites in Melbourne owing to the presence of a visitor from y Denver City, U.S.A., who Is endoav- _ ouring to attract the adherents ui' • e jthat religion to America. Some time ago rumours reached Australia of a 1- (new sect, which claimed to be the real Christian Israelites, and which y |made it a necessity of salvation that j devotees should congregate in Denver j City. There they were to await the l t lend of the world, which it was confident'ly foretold is to take piace | within the lifetime of the present p generation, the date being finally lixie |ed and known to members of the j faith, It is authoritatively stated , c thai at least 06 men and women inle jtend to leave Melbourne this month for Denver City." Nearly all the ad- ]_ ults are in possession of houses and property, and these are all being sold ,1 off 1 . One old man, who, though a .greatgrandfather, is still hale and i. hearty, has made up his mind to and has parted with his house and ;r land. Messrs' Morit/.on and Company, of Dunedin, in a long le'tter to the New a Zealand Times regarding apple grow- ' ing in this cplony say other countrios are troubled with the same 6 pests under which we suffer in New '/jeahnxl, aiKi they mate orcharding $ pay. Enormous quantities of apples are grown both in Canada and the t t'nited Statefj. and these are shipped via New York to European ports, and sold there with a profit to the grower. If you take these - n facts into consideration, and also that Tasmania ;."h'i|» some 700,000 ' s bushel cases per year, surely there K ' is something in an apple orchard. We would also ibring before the vai'ious growers and shippers the necessity for care .in grading the apples. '• v The Tasmanian packing is) perfect, 18 but we cannot say the same of those n " that we got from the North lsl a nd. r ~ During the months of November and d December we had two consignments ■ n of apples from Canada, whicht cainc >S from three handled miles inland, and r. wjere shipped from Vancouver via id Brisbane and Sydney to our port, n- The apples were beautifully got up, a and were certainly superior fruit to is that grown in the United States, w both in appearance and flavour. One w shipment came as general cargo, and the other! was sent under a temperature of 40degrees. These apples were perfect, while those sent as general cargo, but in the cool part of the vessel, were only partially sound, but we believe that this was partially owing to the apples not being of good keeping quality.:
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7738, 14 February 1905, Page 4
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556General News. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7738, 14 February 1905, Page 4
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