GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 9 August 1907, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

During the .-ix years the Tourist Depaiiuniii iufci been in existence vaiuaole work lw■» U'eu doue in importing game and also distributing that already in tne colony. In llMil tour red deer from U'airarupu herds were lil»orated at Lake Waikaremoaua aim three at Stewart Island; in l'.KKj .seven, presented by .Miss Audrey (Jhimside. Werribeti i'ark.. Victoria, were sent lo Tuliua, on the West Coast; and eight from the same place to Lake Wakatipu; in IUIM six thar irom the Duke of Bedford (England) lound homes at .Mount Cook, while in Ino.j six .Japanese deer from the same donor wer.? lil**rated in the ivaimanawa ranges, near Taupo. The same year live biuck-tail deer from the United Slates went to Tarawera (ilawke's Bay), and eighteen elk (leu presented by .President Kuoseve.t and eight obtained from the Lnitt'd Statis/ to Stewart. Island. In I'JU'i twelve red deer were given by Miss A. Chiruside. eight going to Lake Kanieri and lour to Tuhua. while iive from \\ airarapa were placed in Tongariro National l'ark. Thi= year nine additional deer from ilr 0. W. Chiriiside have been sent to Lake Kotoiti, and eight chamois from the Emperor of Austria, to Mount Cook. It is too early to predict what success would attend the acclimatisation of the imported animals, but, from reports received, very excellent results , are anticipated. I

TV company of Sargond, Son. ami Ewen, Limited,, was rogi.-ten-il at Dunedin on Saturday morning, with a capital of UTIXMNMI. liivi.li-il into TfSo.OOO shares of tl each. Tin- subscribers to the memorandum and articles of association are I'ercy 11. Sargood. of Dunedin, merchant; f.uey ('. Sargood, wife of Percy I!. .Sargood ; Thomas I'iniayson, ot Auckland, merchant: Emily Kinlayson, wife of Thos. Finlay.-on; Henry Tew-ley. of .Wellington, merchant: Ada Tewsley. wife of Henry C. Tewslev. and .Tames I'. M.Cowan, of Dunedin, a'crountant. The objects of the company are to acquire, take over, develop anil inrry on tin- bu-ine-s at present carried OH in different parts of New Zealand and in London under the style of Sargood, Son and Evrm.

I'robably the coming summer v, ill -ce the inauguration o! an overland journey oil 111., re even term- uiu has hitherto i»-en the ca-e. Ji ».is suggested in .Mr .Ma-sey to the i'reuiier last week "that when the advaucing rail-heads oi tlie -Main Trunk com.- uilhin twelve mileof each other—which ought to he ilie case next .suuiiiier—tlie I'uhlie Work, or ltailw.iv lV]Mitmciit shoiilil provide tran-i«ii't facilities o\er Ihegup.eunliiing passengers to make the journey bcLweeu tile tuo .Will Island ■ itiu- in'two day-, sir Joseph Ward inioim.d tin; leader ot the Ti H „j-iti„i, Uiat u „. li||( , s tended doing what had T>eeii suggested, hecau-e as a busim-s proposition, they wanted to get the through trallic at the earliest po—ihle moment.

Ilie lion. *l. A. .Millar, in collaboration with tli*- liovernmonb <»i Canada and Australia, lias almost eo U jj,leled a eomprehensive selnuiie lor asi.-ertaining th<name- of ali American iinn.j dealin" in jiiisou-inade boot-, and other goods,* the oOjeet iteilig to l,iipo-e .111 e\tra duly upon -uch goods arrmug in this State, iu -UUi.tr stated the oilier day tliut more oi nils kind ui stuli ua- uommg into the eountry thati kuew-iie ,iaU aireail) a list oi lueiny-eigiii unus dealing in il—and there was going tu be an extra surcharge oi -Ju cent. it goods arrived al a Jse., Zealand port irom any 01 these tirm, the importers would luve to prove eunclusiu'ly beiofe getting delivery that they were not jni,-oii-made. In America then: i a a regular system ot iarming out prison labor, and its application Ha., got as lar as agricultural implements. .Mouth after month as any new him takes to handling prison-made goods its name is sent uui tu the countries participating in the anangement.

."iir William relerring to the twenty-iour hourspeech made by the late Mr J. M. ; C bltiia. w)j., died la.l Week, in di-i ellec of the states that it diheed materially urn, stonewall speecie - ,ji the ordinary tlas-. -Ihere was wit and bumor iu it. and alu.ns -jmethiie' iresh uttere,! in wcll-clio-ei, lanauage." Mr 1 hom-eoi ha.l only Ueu eight vears m I'aihament when he was selected by : ir tosirge i.rey as one of his .Mini-try he « Hig,, Daily Times slates that tin Ali Iliom-ou had the opportunity of forming a Mini-try him,elf on the defeat o, the llr-t St„ul-Vogel (i„vernmeiit. he telt that |, e c „ u | {l soientiou-ly a-ure the Governor that he •saw any pros| R . c t .jt forming a stable Mlnistry-that which was formed by ■ Harrv Atkinson did not last for a week -so lie declined the tonimission