Political Notes.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7877, 20 July 1905, Page 4

Political Notes.

The Government has just published a very useful handbook on tree culture. It will be ot great assistance to persons wishing to establish plantations on their properly. The book is written by the Chief Forester, Mr H. J. Matthews, under whose direction five million forest trees have been raised and permanently planted each year. The book contains l:i(l pages, including an alphabetical list, extending over twenty pages, of trees and shrubs suitable for plaining in New Zealand for timber, shrub or ornament. The Premier does not look forward to a statute for his memory's sake. At the Gathering of the Liberal and Labour Federation at Newtown, the chairman (the Rev. L. 1). Thomas) referred to the place Mr Kcd-don would take in historv in the years to conic. "That is all verv well " replied Mr Seddon, "but I would rather lie here in the flesh. I do not envy those who are in Hie marble or the bronze." Speaking of what is known by the public of men who had done much in the past Tor their fellows. Mr Scddon stated that recently m one of Hie colony's schools not a child in the third standard could say would Sir George Orey was. The Premier announces jji the House that the Government had been advised that Natal had imposed a duty o| Id per lb on frozen meat and cattle tor slaughter, llilhvrlo there had been no duty on tlrc.se lines