Chamber of Commerce Conference

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7799, 15 April 1905, Page 3

Chamber of Commerce Conference

(Received April 15, 0.56 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 14. The Chambers of Commerce Conference concluded to-day.

The alleged fact that the members of a South Canterbury firm, who were desirious of extending their operations to Ashburton, had four business under oiler to them, three of them doing a large turnover, has been causing some speculation in local commercial circles (says the

Press), especially as the owners of the businesses are understood to be strong advocates of no-license, and oelievers in the material and morel advantages which they hold follow the exclusion of licensed houses from a district.

It will be news to many people to hear that to-day there is something like £20,000,000,0011 sterling invested in the frozen meat trade. Sir Montague Nelson is the authority for the statement, and he of all men should be in a position to know. In presiding over the meeting of Nelson Ilrothers in .London on 21st February last, he said that, with the end of the drought in Australia, sheep aTKI cutJle had been increasing ther.-, and in the near future Australia would again bo a shipper ol frozen meat, competing with Now Zealand and South America. There was no doubt, he added, it would mean very cheap meat in Hmgland.

The latest form o! house robbery in l'aris is burglary by motor-car. The concierge of a line block of flats in the Avenue Mulakoff was standing at the front door on Lecember 3 when a large mot':.-ear drove up, containing three young pastrycooks' assistants and the dri ver, who's.'. fi'C.! was mas'..vd by a

pair of huge gogles. They asked the canceirge to direct them to the flat of Jf. • Merino, mid, assuming that the tenant named was about to give a.-dinner party, the concierge directed them to the third floor. I Presently a we'l-dressed man, carrying a leather bag, came up, and tqllimr the concierge that he had coma about the menu curds passed up to the same flat. The driver of the motor-car, after wailing for a few minutes, decided that he would go and give his comrades, a lift with their work, and asked the concierge to keep an eye on the car. The obliging janitor did so, and to such good effect that he saw in the bottom of the car a collection of suspicious looking instruments, including electric batteries, skeleton keys, jemmies, andj saws. He spoke to a passing policeman, who at once procurod assistance and waited for the return of the party. The well-dressed man was the first to appear, carrying his bag, which.was much swollen in dimensions. He was promptly seized by the police, as were also, the supposed pastrycooks' assistants and the masked' driver. They had rifled a flat on the fourth floor, the owners of which were awayi and had in their possession goods valued at £2,000*