GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 245, 9 October 1908, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

TIMBER DUTY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last, Night. A Gazette notice to-night fixes Ihe export duties on timber at 5s per hundred feet on white pine and kahikatea logs, and 3s per hundred feet on Hitches not exceeding ten inches wide. The export duty on kauri is 5s per hundred feet on logs, and 3s oil Hitches exceeding thirty inches ill width and nije inches in thickness, or its equivalent. BUOYS OF LOCII LOMOND PICKED UP. Auckland, Last Night. The Northern Steamship Co.'s Paeroa, which arrived at 11 o'clock to-night, reported having picked up some life buoys identified as belonging to the missing Loch Lomond off the Croat Barrier. IN VKUCARGILL TRAMWAYS. Invereargil], Last Nig'lit. The Town Council to-night decided to grant the request of the tramway concessionaries (of whom Sir Joseph Ward is one) to alter the. terms of their contract so that it ivill lx> necessary for them to complete only a. portion of the new tramway system by nitre months from last Stay instead of the whole work as originally agreed. The minority in the Council strongly opposed the request, urging that file Council should enforce tile tonus of the, contract so as to arrive at some sort of finality.

PROPOSED NAPIER-fJISBORNE RAILWAY. Palmerston N., Last Night. The Napier Chamber of Commerce have asked the Palmerston support an immediate continuation of the East Coast railway from Napier to Gishorne. A discussion took place at a meeting to-night. Speakers objected to supporting the scheme without enquiry. Mr. (tibbons characterised the line as expensive and unnecessary. Mr. Cohen said it was neither of national nor district importance. Tho land tapped was very poor. Mr. Elliott said the same mistake was being made with this as with other lines ill New Zealand, namely, hugging the coast instead of striking inland. It was decided that there was insufficient data before ~ the Chamber to warrant it supporting the, railway.

TliE DAIRYING REGULATION,S. Auckland, Last Night. The new dairy regulations wefe discussed and generally condemned at a meeting of t'lie Auckland executive of the New Zealand Fanners' Union today. It was decided on the motion of Mr. Allen Bell, of Waikalo, to protest against tho regulations as at present drafted being brought into force, as ill tiie opinion of the executive tlrev would act detrimentally to the dairying industry throughout New Zealand. BLACKBALL COAL COMPANY. Wellington, Thursday.

Trouble has arisen over the land required by the Blackball Coal Company for bins and shunts. The trouble is that the land taken by proclamatinn for railway purposes leaves fhe company too little land for bins, etc. Th:| company asked that certain land should be allotted to it. The Hallway Department, would not agree, as it would bring the bins too close to the railway. A director of the company is coming to Wellington to interview the Jlinister with a view to making satisfactory arrange ments. CIIAItCE OF THEFT OF .MOO. Wellington, Tliutriliit. Prank Ovitanovieh, arretted on a charge of theft of CoOO from "Marin TCumvich at Auckland, was remanded to appear at Auckland. EE ITER'S TFLEffIUPIPOO. Wellington, Thursday. ■Renter's Telegram Company ha' declared the usual interim dividend at the rate or 5 iper cent;.