BOOMING NEW ZEALAND.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 180, 25 April 1908, Page 6

BOOMING NEW ZEALAND.

: GOVERNMENT. AS NEWS . VENDOR.i".- , Tho Gpyernment'.hds'''effeete'd; an:''ariangement with Router's Telegraph ; .Co"trippny :,to dispatch' three iinies per ; week'from, : No\V',Zea-, land to words,- containing iterii'sof general;,'nd'ws,, which will be ; of'' irite're'st • ;to' - • newspaper readers! at. Home. • jThe: selection of'ithe -tiews is to -be' left entirely/to : Router's fAgency,' •and'-it is understood 1 , the' items. are/to:'be' free from' bias.,-. Statements by the : head'of the Governmerit,; mining returns/, tho .'season'.s prospects, matters, affecting :thei''extension, of trade between New. Zealand, * and tho .Mother Country, and with Canada and the United -States,, will: receive; chief tion. It is also proposed to'allow the papers of Canada and the United States .to, take message, on payment of a ghare'of , the small distributing cost. •*' The Prime Minister has also instructed the High Commissioner to continue, to urge for reductions-ill the Press rates over the Pacific cable. Sir Joseph Ward has, advised him that New Zealand is prepared-to'reduce its rate. per word from 2d." to Jd. This would reduce the rate 'to 10Jd- per: word from;.- Is; If proportionate reductions: are-made, " the total cost should, come down to 7.d. per word. •

Tho "Windsor Magazine" < for March conI tains eight complete /stories, with articles by Morley Adams on "Naval .Training for the British. Fleet," and, by Professor 'Lowell', on Mars. The artist dealt, with is (Fred Roe, of whoso works 20 fiiie reproductions are given. ■ There is~no woman in tho land so'bad an arithmetician .that she could aiot calculato how much her husband would save if ho did' not smoke'.—"Tatler." ■ ' ' The annual, meeting of the Wellington Ladies'. Hockey Association will be . held in Batkin's Rooms, Lambtqu Quay, at S p.mv to-day. Messrs. J. H. Bethune and Co. have some important' announcements in- our auction' columns. On 'Tuesday- next, at thoir rooms, they will submit, in the estate oftho'lato Dr.' W, A. Logan, at.l p.m., a lot of .first-class furniture, and at 3.30 p.m. surgical instruments and bo*.. On Wednesday next,, at 2.30; p.m., at their ~ rooms, the firm, under 'instructions from Mrs. William Jl'Laughlan,'will submit a charming Kilbiriiie property.' The laud has GGft. frontage to Wellinpton Etiad'(a continuation of Constable Street) by lGßft.',' and .on it stands a five-roomed dwelling, with all conveniences. On Wednesday, 20th, at 2.30 p.m., at their rooms, tho'firm will submit the-new suburb known as Crofton West, adjoining tho railway line, approached by level underway from ;the main road, and only three minutes' from the Crofton Station. The land is .subdivided into areas of a quarter-acro and upwards.. Lithographio plan 3 may be obtained on application, or will be forwarded h anv -address, this BaJ, B i B altgoid