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Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 18409, 1 August 1917, Page 1

Latest available figures; relating to daky produce held in store in the Dominion awaiting shipment and for local consumption a,re 21-5,000 Iwxes of butter and 1)20,000 orates of cheese.

A total of 412 of the youths attending. tlie Auckland Granuna.r School have notified their willingness to take situations in the countiy during" the coming summer, in. order to release farm labour for Avaa- purposes.

Sir Joseph Ward stated in the House, in answer to a question, itha-t tho -imperi.il Government had removed all firms in Jftpian from the "black list," aoid h.'-d asked .tho Dominion Government to tnko a similar step. New Zealand aci cordhigly luml romovod Japanese firnia from the list of'enemy'firms. Tho question of what will become of tho incalculable wealth and vast possessions of the Czar is causing the Russian Imperial Family some concern. I There is a. proposal that his enormous wealth sWld be forfeited to the prosecution of *he war. The Czar's private domains, compriite 21,308,000 acres, an area kurg^r thaai all Ireland. More than half tho territory is .highly cultivated laud. 'The vextent of the Czar's own private treasury of actual cash may )>e gauged from the fact that he wae able,

at thb time of the Russo-Japanese war, to' contribute a lump sum of £20,000,000 .to the war fund.

the Fielding Star says there is a group of- shearers, who, at 5s imported,' have intimated to the farmera that, if one of theiir number, t ball'lotted man, is farced to go' into camp against his will; they yriil not do'any shearing; in the district.