WELLINGTON NOTES-

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11116, 7 November 1901, Page 2

WELLINGTON NOTES-

, (FMOU A OOMMSSrOXDMSt.) WELLINGTON, November 6. The Bey. F, A. Bennett Maori Missionary, is proving a very popular preacher with Wellington congregations, and hie appeals for fund* for the Victoria Maori Girls School, Auckland, are meeting with good financial response. ■ - ~ Mr J. T. Jones, of Pleasant Point, near Timara, is making excellent progress with his the training and protective works, which he is carrying ont for the Hutt Bivee Board. His energetic .and ingenious method of operations nas been quite ac eye-opener to some of the old identities of tue Hutt Valley, who: ate fort«d to confess tha* there "is troth in the old adage of "Lire and learn." In consequence of the unsatisfactory proposals for the exchange of land as between the City Council and the WeUing- I ton College Governors, the passage of the Bill to provide a site for the Victoria College is being imperilled. - The i.properties, composition, and reactions of karakin, a bitter substance extracted from karaka berries by Professor £asterneld, of Victoria College, and Mr B. C. Aston, of the Department of Agriculture, were described by the former at last night's' meeting of the Wellington Philosophical Society. " t Mr Joseph Taylor, of Puponga coal fame, whose proposals for the establishment of the iron industry in New Zealand, attracted some attention two years ago, has now put forward a scheme to make Nelson the premier port ot New Zealand. He has issued a pamphlet, in which he details his scheme in roseate language. He assert* • there is really no place in the colony so favourably situated as Nelson. A private letter reports the occurrence oi a good many 'cases of measles amongst the members of the Seventh Contingent, which, at the time of writing, was having plenty of hard work in very wet weather. Mr R. R. Alley, who is keeping before the public of Wellington provincial district the project to establish woollen mills at Seat-, tie,' Washington, IT.S.A., for the manufacture of raw material imported from Australasia, has made a reply to some criticisms which have been passed on the scheme*. Hβ Swells on the favourable situation of Seattle, and says there is a feeling in the United States in favour of the reduction of the duly on unseoured wooL . '