GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 30 January 1907, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

i'er Tress Association. A BIG DEAL. Ashhiivton, Jamiarv 21). ilr A. V. Huberts, of Wesleriiehl. nas purchased the homestead block of Teviot station, near Roxburgh, Otago. The property comprises !2,-140 acres ot freehold with buildings.also 10,000 acres of pastoral leasehold, 20.0011 sheep, Kill head of cattle, so horses, with implements and plant. The price is between .UUUytOO and £70,000. Till Alt U WOOL SALE. Timuary, January 20. At the third woo | sale today there was a good attendance -of buyer's. Compared with the last sale, there was a drop in prices fur bright half breds of V4d, shabbier lots %d to Id, % bred •/[d, inferior V.d. Prices were: Halfbred medium, lid to 12|/,d; inferior. !H,:,d'to lid: %-bred. medium, ]Jd lo 12d; inferior, 9</,d fo lid; crossbred, medium, lod to ll"/,d; inferior, S'/.d to Kill; .Merino, medium lO'/jd to fl'/.il, inferior Bi/,d to 10ii. CIJIiISTciICKCH HEGATTA. Christchureli, Jamiarv 29. At a meeting 'of the commi'ttee of the Curis!church llcgatta Club to night, reports wen: received that Lake Forsyth, where the championship re giuta is to be held next month, contained ph>my of water and was in good order for the regatta. It was resolved to reply to a suggestion from the Aka'roa O'iub, that the regalltu' committee had no intention whatever of changing tile course from Lake Forsyth lo Akaroa Harbour.

NUI'PRIOISSIXCi ISOOKMAKKIiS. Jnvei'cargill, January !>!). Mr MncCarthy, S.J]., delivered*e served judgment in the eases of the hookniakers trespassing, on tiie Winton racecourse on November !). Alfred Driscol, John l'ainnaid. C'has. Christie, Richard McDonald, and David McLaren ver u-h lined -to and costs. The defence was that the regulations under which the defendants were ordered to leave were iniproperlv made. The Magistrate -aid that as 'hookniakers seemed determined to set prohibitions at defiance, he would in future cases consider the advisahleness of inflicting gaol instead of lines. NLUI'T HAlillOl'U BOARD. Jnvei'cargill. January 2(1. At the annual meding of tlie [{lull' Harbour Hoard to-day, the chairman, reviewing the work of the year, said Hie record had been one of steady progress, and the financial position was one of ,-lrcngth and buoyancy. The shipping returns showed Hie n'ei ton nage entering Hi,, port during IHo<> lo nave bee,, .17,1,187 (for 2-">t vessels), an increase of 20,1i7S tons compared with the previous year. Imports showed an increase in practically every ilcm, that in nvrchundi-c being 74!") lons, manures (!-l:!7 tons, coal ."illii tons.

:Iml limber laiiiflfil'l. Tiro exports in creased, with two exceptions. (Wneral merchandise increased by ]BS:i ton,, frozen produce (after a Meade decline for live years) lfiii.". lons, clioeso in-crea-cd about C2:'.,1>00 in value, wool by 2WU bales. There W in a decrease or 1.V212 lons in grain (llio smallos', export lor ten years), ami Max do

creased by HITS hale*. Wharfage dues bail increaseil by C'lDO. The balancesheet shoved a total revenue for I lie year of U211.211i. an increase ~, .clTHli over lnilo. ()f this, .C-2(I,(I(W was classed as ordinary revenue. 'J'he expenditure amounted io .Cln.flS-l. as agaiu.-t .Cl!l,2S;i in 111110. showing 1111 income over expenditure of .CS:I2, and Hie debit, balance 'of C2.!HS witli video tile Year was eoiuineneed. was reduced to .(220815. Tin- sinking fund for tlic loan of e.W.nDit maturing in l' 1'" now ■iiiioiiiil. to C J >\!>e7. and en the due ,'h,t,. ' should reach .-C-12.000. Tlie cli'iiriirin expressed di-appointment tent the Murine Department hnd not v ,l ~M „ ,l wrill-u authority for ex i ended reclamation works.