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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 4, 23 May 1914, Page 8

Sir George Doughty, M.P. for Grimsby, and husband of Lad/ Doughty (form-rely a well-known Melbourne lady journalist), is reported by cable In have died lust week. Sir George was in his sixtieth year, a rich merchant and shipowner, and was knighted in 1!)1)4. He had proposed to visit Australia early in this year with Lady Doughty, but his il'ncHs intervened. Lady Doughty was Miss Kugenia Stone, anil began her literary career on Table Talk, ami afterwards achieved considerable prominence by her smart writing as "Tryplicna" in the. Sydnev Bulletin .

Tiie Panama Canal will make the crowded cities on the Eastern coast of the L'nited States almost as accessible to New Zealand trade as is the West Coast at the present lime. This huge market, as yet hardly touched by the Dominion, promises to be an cxecedingly valuable and reliable one. Once the trade is fairly established its growth will be limited, not by what America can take, but by what we can send. The problem facing New Zealand in future would-appear to be less a marketing than a producing one. We have several markets now which we eamiot satisfy, a.nd the new markets which are opening up will overtake the greatest agricultural development which the wit of our statesmen and the industry of our farmers can achieve.—Auckland Herald.