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Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 102, 2 May 1901, Page 4

The Poverty Bay Herald states ili?it in spite of the fact that there has been a considerable increase in. the qwftntity of butter manufactured locally, and that an export trade is developing', consignments of Wellington and West Coast butter are frequently received in Gisborne. In a paragraph last evening on the fire which destroyed a flock factory at Waiwetu, Messrs Mason and Ellis were mentioned as the proprietors. Mr. Mason asks us to state that he has no interest in the factory whatever. The suit in which George Bodley is endeavouring to recover from T. K. Macdonald, an amount of £500 paid as a deposit on account of the purchase at auction of the property known as M'Nab's^Gardens, was, on the rising of the Supreme Court yesterday, adjourned for legal argument. The case has a somewhat important bearing on the subject of conditions of sale. One of the pinnaces of the local torpedo corps has been brought to Mr. Gannaway's yard for an overhaul. Only one bankruptcy came before the Official Assignee during April, as against three in April of last year. The Hawkes Bay Herald understands that the Government will put on the market about the end of July the it),UuU acres of the Mangatoro Eatate, purchased from the Assets Uea'.isution Board, at £4 10s per acre. The surveyors will start operation's at an early date. During April new old-age pnsions of £18 each were granted in Wellington as follows: — Mrs. Mary Brown, aged 76, fcb years in colony ; Mrs. Annie E. Deck, aged 72, 51 years in colony ; Mrs. Lydia Laurence, aged 65, 25- years in colony ; Mr. * Stephen S. Jacker, aged 72, 4/ years in colony. Mr. Wm. Gatherell, aged "73, 39 years in colony, was granted a pension of £11An ordinary meeting of tho Seatoun Road Board was held yesterday. Present — Messrs. Crawford, Towns-end, Mabin, and Zohrab. Mr. t)aly and Mr. J. J. Devine -were granted permission, subject to conditions, to fence m 13ft of the roadway adjoining their properties for the purpose of planting trees. The annual meeting of ratepayers was fixed for Saturday evening next, at Beam's HaU, at 7.30 p.m. Accounts to the extent of £30 were passed for payment. Police-Inspector Fender has a rare record in the matter of Royal receptions. As a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary he took part in the reception pf the Queen on the occasion of her visit to Ireland in 1848. As a police officer in the JNew Zealand service he caw .the Duke of Edinburgh land in Christchurch. And now, as Inspector of Police for the capital city of the colony, he is shortly to figure in the reception of the Queen's grandson and heir-apparent to the Throne. So this is the third generation of British royalty, -nhoso entertainmeiifc Inspector Pender will take part in. The members pf the Seatoun Road Board aro disposed to encourage residents lo plant trees on the roadsides fronting their properties. It was stated at yesterdays meeting that they are willing to grant permission to any one who may apply ior permission the- right to enclose a strip of roadway so long as the enclosure does not interfere with traffic, and tho trees are planted in such a manner as to form an avenue along the road. The fence is to be removed at I any time the . Boa*d may call upon the owner to do so. Not alone in New Zealand and Australia, but also from all over the world comes the plaint that timber is getting short. As in tho ca*e of coal and its substitutes, practical scientists will be short- I ly devoting themselves to the question of discovering substitutes ' for the limber the world is so rapidly using up. ' Newspapers are the great" consumers. The Sunday edition of a popular American paper will dispose of a whole forest. An excellent law exists in Switzerland, viz., that for every tree cut down the feller is bound to p.ant another. Judgments for plaintiifs were given as follows in the Magistrate's Court to-day : —City Council v. James B. Collier, £7 ss; same v. John Blanford, £7 12s 3d; S. A. Rhodes v. Henry Carter, £7, and possession of premises ; Kirkcaldie and Stains v. George Bevan, £4 8s 9d ; same v. George M'Millan, £5 ss ; E. J. Forbes v. Hilton Brown, £4 ss ; Schaefer and Co. v. Henry WUis, £6 3s 8d ; M. Rigarlsford v. Thomas Howell, £3 14s 7d ; Commercial Agency Co., Limited, v. George Matthews, £6 14s ; same v. a> red. Durable, 15s Id. Judgment summons case? — Wellington Loan Co. v. A\ *G. Owen, £11 8s 3d, to be paid forthwith, or in default seven days' imprisonment, bub order to be suspended for fourteen days; .Wellington Loan Co. v. James M'Leod, £37 Is, to be paid forthwith, or seven days' imprisonment, but order to be suspended for fourteen days. About three inches of snow fell at Oxford, in 'Canterbury, on Saturday evening, aud was succeeded by a bright frosty night, producing ice, two inches in thickness on Sunday morning. Graziers from the front hills say that the fall there was very little, if any, heavier than on tne level, and no damage to Hocks its expected. The snow coating protected the grass 'from the hard frost dm'ing (he night, and i he chances are in favour of plenty of feed for some tiaie. Leurniug l>y experience, farmers have (says the Chrislchurch Press) paid more attention to storing winter provender than formerly, stacks of hay and oaten straw being in evidence everywhere. There was also a heavy fall of snow at Malvern. The report to be presented at the unnual meeting of the Feilding Gas Company in Wellington to-morrow night states that the amount available for distribution is £272 4s 7d, and the direc- ' tors recommend the payment of, b dividend >at the rate of 3 per cent., carrying forward the balance to next year's accounts. During the year considerable extensions in mains ~ave been made, a large and growing district having been brought into connection with the works. As was to be expected, the increased charges consequent upon the plant extensions which wore carried out last year and the expenditure upon new mains during the year now under review have somewhat curtailed the ba'.ance »available for distribution. This was inevitable ir a young concern where additions have to be made to apparatus, as such additions are boiyid to be in considerable advance of immediate requirements. The actual working of the company has been satisfactory, the number of consumers showing a* regular stea.v increase, while the results obtaine.. from the raw mate-^ rial treated have been considerably improved by the additional apparatus. The. directors* who retire in .accordance with' the articles of association are Mr. J. M. Richardson and Dr. Fell, who, being eligible, offer themselves for reelection. Mr. H. Kember, the retiring auditor, is eligible, and offers himself for re-elec-tion. urgent meeting of milk retailers will , be held in the Foresters' Hall,. Torystreet, to morrow evening. Mr. F. Morion Ollivier notifies that he will henceforth practice as a barrister only. The butter-making industry has become greater since Defiance Butter >vas placed upon the market. Made from the best cream only. — Advt.