TELEGRAM.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 41, 18 February 1908, Page 3

TELEGRAM.

fPEESS ASSOOrATIOX.I VALUATION' OF 1 APIER. NAPIER, 17th February. The valuation of the Borough of Napier fot the- year ending 51s l March, 1908, is £104,209, compared .with £98,071 lor tho previous year— an increase 01 £6198. Last year's ;valuation was a» increase on .Jipt of the previous year -of £6457. ' Napier ' was declared a municipality on- 26th ( November, 1874, nnd the xalua- . tion for 'the year ending" 15th November, 1875, was £37,360. The value of property in the town, has,, therefore, increased in thirty-lour years by £66,909. DANNEVIRKE "WATER SERVICE. DANNEVIRKE, 17th February. ' A new twelve-inch water-niain, laid by the Spiral Stee'Pipe Company, to take the place of the eighVinch main from the reservoir to, .the toMya, hasbefen opened, resulting -in a big -increase in the pressure The new main gives general satisfaction. , . " , , THE NEW ZEALAND TEAM QF ATHLETES., . , INVEBCAJRGILL^ 17th February. The Dominions representative athletes, on the way to the 'Australasiau'championship meeting at'Hobartj passed through Invercargill to-day." They were welcomed and entertained "'at lunch" by' the' Southland centre. NATIVE - INSTRUCTION. GISBORNE, 17th. February. The "Hon. G\ Fowlds arrived overland from Wairoa. about midday to-day. In a speech at Turahura the ;Ministcr said a, mistaken idea, prevailed in regard to instruction imparted in native schools, which was up to the sixth and seventh standard, whilst proficiency certificates entitled holders of the same to free plac-e. secondary education, - th& same as Europeans. Among subjects tot be discussed "with natives is the. proposed erectiqn of a cottage hostel (not hospital) to jform the coping-fctone of a ' sy&tein of training native nurses. IHE PREMIER AT HAMILTON. , HAMILTON, 17th February. The Premier was -in Hamilton to-day. He opened the Carnegie Library, and was entertained at a garden party .at the Lake Reserve. He visited the hospital, and inspected the new buildings, which we to cost £15,000., In the ''evening he received deputations. . .HEMMED IN 'BY .FIRE.' AUCKLAND, IVth.Feoruary. If the full story of the bush fires we':e available, there is no doubt that many a country settler could tell stirring .tales of risks run in trying to stay the pro- i gress of the flames^ That there are risks is shown by the experience of Messrs. ■ Sinclair and W. Duncan -a day. or 4 two' ago at Drury They liad gone out from -tlie Drui> coal ritine for the purpose of Seeing about laying down a water pipe, and had .gone some distanc.fi up a creek. Mi Duncan remarked to his companion that they must, take - care not •to be caught by a. fire that was burning on one of the hillsides. By and bye they discovered that the flames ha 4 completely hemmed them in. Their danger was noticed by others, and a rescue-- party was •eut'out, bnt the two men, by crawling down the creek,- -managed to get out of tte fire zone. • • 1 IHE SIZE OF CORNSAGKS. OAMAR.U, 17th February. At a meeting of the Chamber of Com- . m-erce to-day it was resolved th,at the • secretary communicate, with the chambers at Invercargill,, Diw'e.din, "iTimaru, and Christehurch.on'the'subjfect of the .weight of grain in enrnsacks, jirith fche object of holding. a conference,- at, Qamaru or at ■'' some other- suitable- centre ; alpo that the Chambers q£ Commerce at Melbourrie, Sydney, and Adelaide be.as-kcd to'statethe position in thos-2 places. '• ,