GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 137, 1 June 1908, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

eDVERNMENI GRASS SEED.

Per Press Association. Wellington, Saturday. Returns of the value of grass seed supplied to settlers by the Government, as a result of tihe serious bush' fires early in the year, show that the amount expended was over £25,000. Details are:—Auckland, 201 settlere supplied with seed to the value of £7837*3 Eawke'a Bay, .8 settlers, J£J33; Taranaki, 102 settlers, £1515; Wellington, 319 settlers, £13,223; Nelson, 44 settlers, £1023; Marlborough, 21 settlers, £1681; Southland, one settler, £l7 10s. The value of seed sown on Crown lands was £4349. "Of this Auckland absorbed i£496, Hawkes' Bay £1254, Taranaki £4O, Wellington £578, Nelson £440, and Marlborough [£ll3B.

CONFERENCE OF CHEMISTS.

Wellington, Saturday.

A conference of chemists representing all parts of New Zealand will be held in Wellington on June oth. The agenda maper embraces subjects dealing with commercial, scientific and legal operations, with special reference to the Poisons Aet, the Anti-Quackery Bill, an- J the Puro Food Act. The primary Object of tho conference is to bring about a federation, to which Pharmaceutical aeociations will be affiliated. : A COLD SNAP. Napier, Last Niglit. The weather has turned much colder, and snOw has fallen on tho high country. EARTHQUAKE. Napier, Last Night. There was a prolonged earth tremor, the direction being north and south, at about 10 minutos to 10 o'clock this {morning. THE PRICE OF BREAD.

Napier, Last Night. As the Flour Millers* Association has taken off the recent rise in the price of flour, the Napier and Hastings bakers have decided not to increase the price of broad at present. ■ i