Interprovincial

New Zealand Tablet, Issue 3, 6 August 1908, Page 24

Interprovincial

Ordinations were held at All Hallows College, Dublin, on the feast of Corpus Christi, the Sunday within the Octave, and the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. The ordaining prelate was the Right Rev. Dr. Lenihan, Bishop of Auckland. Among the students ordained to the priesthood was the Rev. John Carran for the diocese of Auckland. A writer to one of the Wellington newspapers says that the principal reason that enables the Oregon pine to come into competition with our native product is the time and labor-saving appliances that are used in the American mills. Our New Zealand methods are clumsy, laborious, and expensive as compared with American systems. Further, there is no waste in the American mills. $ The gold yield for the Commonwealth and New Zealand for the first five months of this year amounted to 1,463,708 fine ounces, or a decrease of 67,352 fine ounces compared with the figure-; for the corresponding term last year. With the exception of New Zealand, which shows a larger return, all the contributors to the total show decreases. All the arrangements (says the Christchurch ' Press ') are now complete for the: erection 'of the new house for the Sisters of Nazareth, on the property purchased by them, the Grove, Sydenham. Messrs. Collins and Harman have prepared plans for the new building, which will be in brick and stone," and will coat something like The tenders .will be called for at an early date. Labor is organising more and more vigorously (remarks the Wellington ' Evening Post '). Copies of the proposed constitution for a Federation of Labor are being circulated among the 310 unions of New Zealand and the Trades Councils. As soon as the Executive Council receives sufficient replies to warrant it calling the federation into existence it will take prompt action. If the federation becomes an accomplished fact, conferences of Trades Councils will be things of the past. In future there would be a congress ot representatives of industries, acting with a standing Federal Council which at all times would have a controlling voice in matters affecting the national and political interests of the labor movement. Similar federations have been established in Australia, America, and Europe. An optimistic view of the financial horizon was expressed at •Wellington on Friday evening by Mr. J. R. Blair, chairman of directors of the Wellington Investment Company. He said he did not lhink in these electric times it was wise to make any remarks about the state of affairs, but he thought he voiced the opinion of the directors when he spoke on this occasion. They had considerable hope for the future, even taking into account the disturbances that might arise in the money market. The position of the Dominion was different now to what it was in the past. In 1879 nearly everyone lost; they did not know v where to turn. In those days the colony relied on wool, and when anything upset the market everyone -suffered. Now the , Dominion had a variety of products— butter, wool, frozen meat, and flax— and if one door closed another opened. He felt the shareholders had every ground for expecting and hoping" a moderately prosperous time, and that prudent people would be able to conduct their business successfully.