GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 24, 27 July 1907, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

[PRK3S ASSOCIATION.] NEW COAL CUTTER. AUCKLAND, This Viixy. ' i The Little Hardy, a coal cutter, has arrived to tho order of the Northern , Coal Company, and is to be installed at the Kiripaka mines. As this "? tho I first of these coal cutters imported here an expert (Mr. Loighton) has conic out to see it properly started. Mr. Leighton leaves for Whangarei to-night. The coal cutter is driven by • compressed air and is designed to give a very high speed, 600 to 700 blows por minute.being struck with a pressure of 60 to 701b per square inch. ■ THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY. - CAMBRIDGE, This Day. There has been wonderful development of the dairying industry in this district. The annua l amount paiJ suppliers (including .bonuses) of tho Cambridge Co-operative Dairy Company has grown from, £6100* during 1901-2 to £32,610 for 1906-7. The past season was an all-round record., and the company has a'surplus of £3659 "BITTER COMPLAINTS. BLENHEIM, This Day. At tho Town Hall meeting held under the auspices of the Marlborou^h Land and Railway League, Flaxbourne settlers complained bitterly of tho way tho Government had treated them. They had been promised an extension of the line immediately Flaxbourne was acquired, with the result that the estate was subdivided in smaller' sections than otherwise, would have been tho case, . and holdings were ' taken up near tho township of Ward, many of the secI tions being only ten acres. The position now is that thirty of the holdj era are not able to reside on tho sec- , tions, and have been warned that they | must do 60 or forfeit. The settlors I ai>e reluctant to do' this, and urge that the Government should come to their aid at the present juncture by lotting railway work to teamsters by contract, and £o)cnable them to eke out a living • until the railway is right through. "'AUCKLAND ROWING ASSOCIATION. / . , . AUCKLAND, This Day. A meeting of tho Auckland Rowing -Association to consider the suspension of that body by the New "Zealand Rowing Association passed a resolution confirming the action of lha local association miefusing to supply certain information demanded by the New Zealand Association. The motion was not unanimous, a large number voting against it. SPORTING CARTRIDGES. DUNEDIN, This Day. Local dealers in ammunition are forwarding _a protest to tho Commissioner of Customs against the proposed in- • creased duty on sporting cartridges I from I 3 6d por hundred to 2s 6d. They say tho proposed duty will amount to sixty per- cent, on the cheaper grades and forty on tho best grat'e3, which rates are practically prohibitive, and will prevent a largo number of cartridges heing used. In the rabbit-in-fested country of Otago and Southland shooting is nocessary as an auxiliary to poisoning and trapping. Tho petitioners allege that 'the Colonial Ammunition Company of Auckland will alone benefit by the proposed increase in duty, and object to monopoly by one firm. AMATEUR ATHLETICS. DUN£DIN t This Day. At a meeting of tho local Centre of tho New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association a letter was received from the New Zealand Council anr 1 the Canterbury' Centre in reference to the reconstitution of the council. It was resolved that the previous decision be adhered to, namely, that tho matyer be referred to the neit annual conference of centres. The council's offer to Otago to hold this year's New Zealand cros3-country championship v.-a& accepted. The event is to be held on Labour Day. BOWLING TOURNAMENT. AUCKLAND, This Day. At a meeting of the Auckland Provincial Bowling Association last evening a request was received' from the Auckland delegates to tho North Island Bowling Association, asking the Auckland Association to undertake tto North Island tournament and entertainment of visitors in January next in Auckland. It- was decided that as the Auckland Association had not been officially approached, it could not undertake the tournament. Tho president and secretary of the association undertook to assist as chairman and secretary, and a strong committee has been formed. A SUNKEN CUTTER. AUCKLAND, This Day. Efforts are being made to refloat the cutter Flora, which sank off North Shore on Saturday morning with shingle DUNEDIN, 26th July. At the Police Coarfc fcp-day Thorn/son, Jacobson, and CaHaghan, thyeo firemen, belonging to the steamer Rippingham Grange, were committed for trial on a charge- of broaching cargo irom the hold of the vessel. ' GISBORNE, This Day The Waterside Workers arc forwarding a subscription to relieve the distress caused by the Sydney coal lumpers' trouble. A poll to constitute Qisborno a fire district was carried by 49 votoa to"?. NEW PLYMOUTH, This Dny. A branch of the Civil Service Association has been formed ip this district with n Jargo membership.