GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 11 May 1907, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

; - Per Press Association. '] Duiiedin, May 10. Tlic Chamber of Coininoive yesterday f iv-ohcd to communicate with'the i'aii>vay Department with a view to securing t I through goods train to Invercargill, so I hat goods forwarded from Dunedin niigii!- lie delivered niore promptly. The (rotting horse Sir Hector (Electioneer -Tracy lielle) has been purchased by T. Afl'lick, of Southland, for -100 guineas. 1 The Outlook's China Famine Belief ' Fund ha- reached £IOS4. The amount ; remit led to dale is £llOO. Auckland, May 10. For driving a motor car along" Queen street at a speed dangerous to the public, eight miles an hour, liobt.. Abbott ; was to-day fined £1 and 12s costs. The Onclumgn Cycling Touring Club had ar- ' ranged at 10 miles road race for tomorrow, but the police, acting under in- ■ -(ructions from headquarters, have for- , bidden it. There is much indignation. Dunedin, May 10. Tin- Covernor arrived from the South by ihe lirst express to-day, and went on by the afternoon train for Cliristchmvh. Alasterton, May ill. A meeting was held to-night in connection with the establishment of workmen's homes in Mastcrton. It was decided to form a general land league, one of the objects being to approach the Governnienl in the matter of establishing workmen's homes here. A petitioii has been signed by sixty-two workmen who are landless, and who are tenants, for presentation to the Government. Wellington. May H). The Attorney-General explains that the naval agreement which was entered into three years ago for a period of ten years, binds the Impeiral Government, the Commonwealth and New Zealand, in a couirmt which cannot be determined with out the consent of the three contracting parties'. Unless, therefore, the New Zealand Parliament con-en's to determine the agreement, it must continue in force until its expiry by ellluxion of time seven years hence. If it is to be determined, the question of what is to take the place of the present nrrangcnient becomes an important one. The values of the principal lines it produce exported from the colonv dur ing April are officially given as follows—Mutter £10,182, ehee»e £7O,G7S, beet C2S,l(i(), mutton £78,885, lamb £l7B- - potatoes £142, hemp £75,058, tow C5!l;;3. wool £550,123, skins £72 515, '"lies £l-1.824, tallow £40,800, grain and pul-:- '.'01)54, hops £1254, poultry £lO3, kauri guni £30.041, timber £->3-Oi'.-L gold £102,011. Total £1,302,070. Auckland, May 10. The linn. .T. A. Millar addressed a well attended meeting this evening. He dealt with the financial pc : ■ n of (h e colony, labor matters, Crov ;v.i\ ami native lands questions, ta; r ■vision, and the matter of rcciproca ,ra,le. | u regard to the last mentioned subjeci, he foreshadowed ngo,iations with the ; Coinuionwealih Government lcardiiK' a . treaty with Australia. As to tile 'ta-' ' V ll - »e -aid ihnt revisions of the exist- I ing dunes would be submitted durin.. . ""•coining session. A vole of thanks t '" Mr Millar, coupled with one of con- I hileiice in (1,,. Government, was carried. < Hie various committees in conncctc, ' I with the Winter «i low ] iarp ~]„,„.. | eoinpleted (heir arrangements, and it *s ' eonl.demy believed there will be a ( •'•uarkable hue Auckland provincial ex- >' "'l»t>»u. What was originallv s art ' as a dairy show has grown to verv wide <ll.M f -11.-s,„„ K , wiUl |l|flt wil] a( _ ract all casse-. The Maori arts and „ cia is, and South Sea cour, is « «> allot,! one 0 f the large rooms. c « n ;' ""> will be some' ,xeecdi„,d v Y "'•'•i'.' I '' «M»''Hs. An insurance polie'v ~{ ','" ""; < .' , 1 " u ; t ll]o »« "I" to £2OOO has been decided upon. &lnu , of tao ; . mens are abnost priceless '

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