GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 183, 1 February 1912, Page 8

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

LORD ISLINGTON AND PARTY BREAK CAMP. By Telegraph—Press Association.. Rotorua, Last,Night.-N Lord Islington,' who has been 1 in camp near here for three we&ks, leaves next Tuesday for Gisbome, via Lake Waikaremoana, arriving on Friday. He leaves by the Monowai for Wellington on Sunday, 11th . THE MOUNT D'OR MINE. Wellington, Last Night. The Mount D'Or Gold Mining Co., at Ross, washed up two months' work for 2540zs 13dwts gold. A dividend of one shilling has been declared. , REDUCTIONS IN PRICE OF MEAT. Auckland, Last Night..'. I ' -'other reduction in the price of meat I ' = been decided upon by the Auckland : V -iter Butchers' Association. The January pr-ice list contained an all-round re- j duction, and February quotations indi-j cate further reductions on certain lines I of lamb and mutton, while the price of beef, veal and pork remain.? the same. EFFECTS OF THE UNSEASONABLE WEATHER, 1 Christchurch, Last Night. Sheep farmers in the back country '•of the Amuri appear to have passed! through a very severe winter, and the shearing tallies, which" are not yet quite completed, bear this out. On two of the stations in the country mentioned it is estimated that each have lost about! 15,000 sheep, and the lambing average is down to about 40 per cent. j