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Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 108, 3 November 1900, Page 4

L O CA I AND G KNRR A /,, « ,—, — The Minister for Justice (Hon. Mr. M'Gowan) lias- in hand, the details of a scheme for employing prisoners in, planting some of the barren areas in various parts of the cojony. He is convinced that the movement will be attended with very satisfactory results. The idea is to select a number of the short sentence men who" have a record for good behaviour and employ them for the remainder of their terms " in reforestry work. A trial of the system will be made at Rotoroa, ' where there is a large area of land which has been found to be suitable lor tree planting. Portable tenements will be built for the prisoners, so that they can be readily moved from one locality to another as the planting goes on. It is probable that the- prisoners chosen for the work will be rewarded for zeal and good conduct while in the country by receiving small gratuities on completing their sentences. The adjudication of Mr. Hone Heke, M.H.R., as a bankrupt will mean a vacancy in the representation of the Northern Maori electorate, unless the bank'r i Upt i C . y L . is ' annulle< ? h7h 7 *c payment of the liabilities within a certain time. That course wrfs adopted in the case of another member of Parliament for a Maori constituency who was declared a bankrupt some years ago. Advices received by the Postal authorities state that the Alameda, with British mails of 20th October, left San Francisco on Ist November—a few hours late. The Commissioner of Police (Mr. Tun bridge) is visiting the Auckland district. On his return from Christchurch the Minister for Xands will make a tour of the Wellington country districts. It has now been decided that the Sunday morning attendance at the telegraph office shall be from 9.30 to 10 o'clock, instead of from 10 to 10.30, in onder to fall in with the cable hours, and give the public the full advantage of the cable service during the lime. It is an undisputed fact that Black Swan Butter is the first in the market. Flavour and freshness always.— Advfc.