THE COUNTIES CONFERENCE.
(Bt .TELEGSAPH —PBE3S ASSOCIATION.)
Wellington, this day.
The Counties' Conference resumed this morning. The election of officers resulted: President/ \Mr F.-A. Majendie, Butt; Vice-Presidentg, Messrs Fraser and Lang : M.H.8.'0; Treasurer, Mr Bolton, Pahiatua; Executive, Messrs McNafa, M.H.R. (Southland), Kebble (Horowheuue) Monkhouse (Stratford), Phillips, (Wairarapa South), Yon Reden (Wairarapa North), Dicken (Pohangina). Mr McNab's motion witb regard to tha borrowing powers of local bodies waa agreed to after a long discussion.
A motion by Mr Yon Reden, " Thab County Councils should have power to levy a general rate, nob exceeding Jd in the £, for the purpose of creacine a fund for the restoration of bridges on county roade," was agreed to. ' '
A resolution was carried, "Tbat the Government be requested to pay rateß on all State" farms." ■ •' -
Some of the best tea in Japan is raised' in districts where the enow often falls to the eaves oi tho houses. Many plants will survive under such snow that are not hardy even in the Southern American States. ?•*•
Beer is still the Englishman's popular drink. For every gallon of spirits drunk in the United Kingdom aboub five-sixths ot a barrel of beer, or some 30 gallons, are taken, and about one-third of a gallon of wine.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 191, 13 August 1895, Page 5
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