NEW ZEALAND : GENERAL.
It is expected that the work of fitting the Westinghouse brake to the carriages of the North express will be completed early next month. When this is done the time-table of the the express will be cut down by half an hour. Thr Wellington correspondent of the Southland Xews writes : bir J. y. Ward, Acting-Premier, scores a record in departmental administration, having ten portf>lioi und^r hw control, constantly employing: six or seven lady typewriters and shorthand writ rs Bir Joseph contrms, by clever sy-temi ation ani admirable a^iduity, to keep all work up to date. The Catholic Magazine, thn organ of the Wellington Marist Brothers bchoola Old Boys' Association is now in its sec ,nd year, the first number of the second volume being- just to ha ad The contents are vmed, and cover a wide field, the. principal subjects dealt with being ' Our Schools,' ' Mental Culture, 1 ' The Young New Zealander, ' Christ— the Ideal.' Among the contributors are Pedagogue, Rev. Father Ainsworth, and < BluegrasV who write on subjects of considerate interest. As a whole the present issue maintains the high standard which ha-3 been a conspicuous feature of the magazine since it was started. The combination of millers and bakers that was formed some months ago in Christchurch to regulate the price of bread and by whose means it had reached as high as 7d the 41b loaf, deliverad appears to have come to a sudden termination. The Press states that as the result of one baker breaking away from the agreement bread wu» to be seen on Friday ticketed in the windows at lid per the -lib loaf. It is said that the bakers who deliver bread will endeavor Lo keep up the price, but in the face of the cutting now going on in the shops this will probably be a matter of Borne difficulty. In the course of a letter to a Nelson paper, in which he apparently refers to a speech made by the Anglkau Bishop of Nelson at a public meeting, the Very R-v. Dean Mahoney says : ' I defy bishop or layman to substantiate the charge, and to prove that I, directly or indirectly, covertly or openly, by letter or word, brought any influence whatsoever to b'-ar upon the disrating, the removal, or the dismissal of ary member or members of the Nelson police force. Should such a charge be proven, as an earnest of my goo 1 faith, I pledge my word to refund £12.") printed to mo by my beloved people, to be di«ttibuted to non-Catholic public charitable institutions iv Nelson.' Mr. P. Hally is to be congratulated on his election as the representative of Bell Hard in the Dunedin City Council. He had a* an opponent a strong man, who bad evidently a good deal of influential support at his back, and consequently Mr. Hally'a success ig a striking evidence of the high e-seem in which he is held by a large number of his fellow citizens. The contest was conducted, as it should be, with the best of feeling on both sides, and the successful candidate on the declaration of the poll took occasion to emphasise his appreciation of the honorable and straightforward manner in which Mr Burnett acted throughout. The latter also reciprocated Mr Rally's compliments. A lecture on the life and labors of St. Patrick by Very Rev. Dean Grogan, S M . of Napier, New Z a* mil. in St. Teresa's Church on Sunday evening, March hi (says the Philadelphia Catholic Stan<lird) attract td an audience that filled the edifice. In a Mcho'arly and eloquent discourse the speaker outlined the history of the Emerald Isle and its people and reviewed the great work accomplished there by St. Patiick. lie exhorted his hearers to be true to their faith, to one another, and to the land that bore them, thdt faithful isle beyond the seas, which is a credit and a li^ht to the Christian world. Speaking at the reunion of the Carpenters' Society in Wei* lington the other day, Sir J. G. Ward said that while the conserva" tion of timber was desirable it was also necessary that land be cleared to make it adequately productive to maintain settlers on small holdings. He referred to the gigantic combine of the mercantile marine of America, and d< clared that we would have an Imperial Zollvcrein — a combination that would enable ns to compete successfully with anyone who would wrest our supremacy from us. lie believed in the end there would be three great countri'p in the world— GrjaC Britain, Amenc s and Russia. The Acti'ig-Preraier made posing reference to the Anglo-Japanese Treaty, a'ui «.ud ihj re mu«t bi some pnweiful menace in tho world's future proHijCcth to impel Gr at Britain to enter into an arrangei: en', wheieby she is obliged to go unreservedly to war with any country whicn went to war with Jap, in. Mu. JamfsScaxlox, who was re-Hected Mayor of the Borough of Wc-tpirt for a third term, «ayn the West port News, May 2, is a native of Charleston, but has spent the most of his life in Westport, where he is at present engaged as a contracting builder. His entry into public life dates back some nine years ago when he was first elected a member of the Borough Council In January 1899, upon Mr. Colvin's resignation of the Mayor-hip, Mr. Scanlon contested the election with C.iptaiu Riley and was returned at the head of the poll. In 11)01 Mr. Scunlou was re-elected unopposed, and on Wudiic-d?y he, was i\ turned ti the beat for a third term in succession. Duing hi.-, occupancy of the office Mr. Scanlon has had many important rhities lo discharge, nutibly in connection with the seuuing away and n.c- ivmg of c. ntingent-', in the undertaking of a water scheme for the Bor tugh, ju d in the taking of initiatory st> ps for provid n-.r public aba't'-its. Uo hi* albo, as a member of the Hit tor Board, and in oth.r Ixj,il cinacUiiN aw-ted in furthering the interest* of the rimfiior. We rungi ululate him on his reuppon.tuient and tiu&t that the year upon whi h he is entering may be for the Borough and nimhelf sued a-lul and pro^iesnive.
The Hon. W. Hall-Joneß addressed a large meeting of his constituents at Timaru on Tuesday evening. Referring to the statement made a few days ago by a Dunedin representative thai; the Sinking Fund moneys were not paid to the proper account, he said that there was now to the account of the Sinking Fund with the Public Trustee an account of i.early £300,000. The expenditure for the year, he admitted, hud been abnormal, but much of ii would not occur again. The Royal visit, mobilisation of volunteers visit of the Imperial troops, education (£o7,000), Tourist and Health Departments (both new department-.), Cook inland" <»choonpr. etc., and a new steamer, to a large extent accounted for it. Penny postage partly accounted for the inert astd postal expenditure. It was true that the expenditure had increased, but the revenue hud increased in a grfater proportion. He anticipated that the surplus next year would amount to between £400,000 air] £."iOO 000. The remission in Customs duties since 1 805 amounted to close upon £700.000. The increases in the Customs returns were due solely to the increased spending power of the people, and not on account of taxation. The value of free goods i up irted amounted to £ I C.K7.-IS]. and that of dutiable gooi'.s to £t>,(j(>s 930 The duty jer head on the necessaries of life amounted at a liberal scale to 11« lOj.d per head of population, or a total of £4r>B,.VJ'.i. For this 11s 10?, 1 the people received education, police protection, defence, subsidy to charitable aid boards, and the services of the Labor Department, which had been of immense advantage to the people in providing employment and kettling labor disputes.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 20, 15 May 1902, Page 19
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