GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 125, 24 June 1909, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

I THE SADDLERY TRADE. | By Telegraph.—Press Association. * Auckland, Last Night. At a meeting of muster and journeyman saddlers to-night resolutions were passed favoring an additional duty of .21) per cent, on imported saddlery" and and also an export duty on hides. It was stated that the Now Zealand market was being glutted | )y certain lilies of imported -saddlery, and also that too many hides were being exported, .Willi tin- result that there was sometimes u difficulty in getting orders in leather fulfilled.

KING COUNTRY LICENSES. Valincrston N., Last Night, f. meeting of Rechahites' resolvedTliis meeting expresses its indignant protest against granting licenses in the King Country for the sale of alcoholic liquors, the same being a flagrant contravention of the treaty entered into with the Maoris."

PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE. , P1 Dunedin, Last Night. the official opening of the Knox residential college for divinity students took place to-day. The function was' very tartly intended by prominent citizens and was in every way a success.

UXIVKUSAL POSTAGE. Wellington, Wednesday. Hi pursuance „f tt decision at'the congress m 1!)()0 to mt a monument nt Berne commemorating tlic founda- | tmn of the universal postal union, the Swiss Federal Council iiivilrtl competitive designs, and that of Kene Gimnreeaun, sculptor, l'aris, was selected. It is (lescnljed as a work of jfreat talent mid originality. The monuiiient will shortly be completed, and will be unveiled in .September, New Zealand represented by Mr. Hall-Jones. htst.axtTikuw. Wellington, Wednesday. v .1 . "'J'' 1 """ 1 "- of I'nliiiers'ton .North, returned Ironi Australia liv tlie arrnnoo to-day. He speak, highly of tlie mosneets of land settlement in New tlc-.s who went for the speeilie purpose of spymg oul u„, |a„d state that they, are going to sell up their Xcw Zealand property and settle in Australia. Mr. Buchanan himself is not doiirr so, but he K (ates the land is cheaper there, while (.!„. h,| )or prolll . ," ni'iite, and there is less' State interference and taxation.