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Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 52, 4 March 1901, Page 4

The deputation which recently waited upon the Premier at New Plymouth and urged that the Government should assist to send Mr. Courtney Home to promote immigration, claimed that necessai-y works in the countiy could not be carried out for want of labour, and asserted that in some places the dairying industry was restricted for -want of milkers. As briefly reported at the time, the Premier declined u> adopt the deputation's buggeation. li<said- that the Government wero qutto opposed to assisting immigration ; n. was part of their policy, and there \v a • no money to devote to the purpose until Parliament sanctioned it. He Wus kuiprised to hear what had been haid aboi.., the price of labour ; the matter had nu' been reported to the Government. Tiic Government were in a quiet way aidii: t immigration by instructing the Agent General to allow intending settlers a re bate of part of their passage in thon. cases where the immigrant could sho\. he possessed come capital. The Government could not, however, go beyond this. While there was a plethor.' Oi employment it might be safe to introduce immigrants, but supposing work became scarce it -would be different. ]i the Government were to land a couplo of hundred immigrants at such a time the working men would rise up and turn the Government out. The financial position of the Gisborne Hnrbour Board is improving. The Po.verty Bay Herald mentions that the Board has now in hand sufficient revenue to meet the interest payment of £5000 due on Ist May next. It is anticipated that when the- track through Whitcombe Pass is completed, it will be possible to ride to Ashburtro, catch the train, and reach Christchur:h in one day from Hokitika. Mr. H. C. Sigley. of the Nelson Boys' Central School staff, has been appointed head master of the principal school on the, Chatham Islands. The Railway Department is unable to supply the demand for trucks for the carriage of timber in the Hastings district, and the locai paper reports that the industry is at a standstill. Special classes under the Manual and Technical Instruction Act of last session aie to be' established by the Nelson Education Board for teaching cookery, dressmaking, and laundry work at Nelson, Westport, and Reefton. The special chorus being, formed by the Orchestral Society for the performance of Mr. Maughan Barneti's Canterbury Jubilee Ode will hold its first rehear al on Thursday evening next, in St. John's Sehoo.room, Dixon-slreet. All vocalists who have signified their intention of assisting are requested to attend. The Secretary will receive further names until Wednesday next. The Taratahi-Carterlon Road Board has accepted tho tender of Mr. C. E. Dauiell, at £1250, for the erection of the Taueru bridge. Mr. M'Calmbnt tendered I at £1269. Messrs. Haigh and Morrah report that they sold last week, at 1100, a building block of land situated in Wright-street and having a frontage of 177 feet by a depth of 100 feet ; also, 46 acres at Taita. for £200. T A fur and wool hat factory in all its branches is to be started shortly in Dunedin by Messrs. Sargood, Son, and Ewen. Very extensive buildings are now being erected on the reclaimed ground. An effort* is being made to establish a district nigh school at Marton. Mrs. G. P. Donnelly (daughter of the late chief Henata Kawepo) and the Yen. Archdeacon S. Williams have each given £100 to the fund for the establishment of a college m Auckland for 'Maori girls. The Gisborne Band is endeavouring to obtain a guarantee of £'AM horn the residents so that ,the next £Jorth Island band contests may be held in that town. The occupants of a house at Olive, near Napier, havt been frightened nightly for the past week by a series- ot loud knocks. The neighbours and the police are watching the house, but so far the mystery is unsolved. Mr. John Batger, at one time one of the prominent oarsmen in the Star Boating Club, has been elected President of the Southland Amateur Rowing Association, former 'under the hcheme of district- associations, decided upon at the ' special meeting of the New Ziea.aud Amateur Rowing Association held in Wellington last month. The natives of Waipatu, near Hastings, were addressed a few days ago by Mr. A. L. D. Frater, M.H.K., in explanation of the provisions of the Maori Councils Act. The member for Napier, speaking at the request oi the Government, explained the advantages which would accrue to the Maories as a people ' by the institution of proper sanitary , arrangements in theii pahs and kaingas. The meeting elected twelve of the Maoris present to ■ form the local Council under the Act. The Premier and the Native Minister have congratulated Mr. Fraser on the success of his efforts. When he was in the Waikato a fewdays ago the Minister for Lands wiu urged to do his best to have the Adulteration of Manures Act amended so that farmers when sending samples of artificial manures to the Government Analyst for his examination, shouid not be required to forward also the names of th-v merchants who had supplied the nrtic> and the analyses accompanying the paicels. The Minister declined to adopt tin suggestion. The Agricultural Depaitment must, he said, be furnished with the names of those who had supplied the manures, and the analysts had no object bur. to do their duty. Mr. Duncan^promised to consider a suggestion that the Government should publish a pamphlet which/ Mr. J. A. Pond, of Auckland, had promised to write on manure adulteration, that all creamery managers should be required to pass an examination in testing, and that Government would examine and stamp milk-testing appliances. The January issue of the ".bight Rail- * way and Tramway Journal," amongst other special matter, contains a number of interesting contributions bjr chairmen of tramways committees relating to tho present position and prospects of municipal tramway undertakings. From all parts of the' country, including such important places as Glasgow, Sheffield, Hull, Aberdeen, Southampton, etc., it is stated that electrical traction is completely successful and quite satisfactory. ' In every cose but one the overhead trolley system is fully approved, and in the exceptional instance experiments are being made with a contact system. Fixed stopping places are pronounced an_ entire success everywhere, and the .different methods of indicating them by day and night are described. In almost all the towns concessions are made in respect of fares to workmen between specified times morning and evening. The new building for the New Zealand Consolidated Dental Company, for tho erection of which tenders have been invited, is to have a frontaee of 128 ft to Mercer-street and 50ft to Jervois-quay. It will be three stories high, nnd will take the form of three separate stories, each self-contained, with the company's office at the corner. There will be a cart entrance from Jervois-quay, *.rith a right-of-way, and giving access to the rear of the stores. The building will have a high elevation, the detail of the design beimj in the classic Renaissance style. Mr. E. M. Blake is the architect.