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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 25 May 1907, Page 4

Tiie election uf Mr. Craigie us Mayor hi' Timaru for the sixth time has been spoken uf as a somewhat remarkable, thing, lull a.i a record it is nowhere, remarks the Timaru Herald. Mr. T'ownley, "Mayor uf dishorn?, holds the record fur tiie colony. lie was installed tin? oilier day for the eighteenth consecutive term. To a representative of the Sydney Daily Telegraph Sir W. K. Preston. Canadian i'rade ajul Commerce Agent. Bpoke enthusiastically un the prosp.'d of tile country. There was n > doubt, Ik; stated., that ihe great prosperity of his country. There was no doubt, he staled, tli.it the great prosperity that the Dominion tvms enjoying was alto • gctlier due to the development of its agricultural resources. When it was considered that the public revenue of Canada lias increased from 30,000,00(Mol to nearly 90,000,000d0l i\i eight years, *ome idea of the prosperity might be gathered. There had been the same proportion of extension in bank deposits, in the extension ami enlargement of manufacturing enterprise, while so far as imports and exports were concerned the only country ill the world that had borne any comparison to Canada for the past ten years was Japan. TJie Government at Ottnva was looking in different parts of the -world for fresh markets for Canada's products, and the success that had attended Canada's business in Australia had been largely contributed to by Mr Lnrke, the Commissioner at Sydney, and Mr Ross, at Melbourne. Mr Preston lias been appointed to the Department of Trade and Commerce, andis on his way to China. .Tapan and Korea to see what markets are there,