INTERPROVINCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1909, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

"Taranaki is one of the solidest place* I have passed through." This remark; was made (according to the Taranaki Daily News) by Mr. G. H. F. Rolleston, British Board of Trade Commissioner; for New Zealand, at the Chamber of Commerce meeting on Friday. Miss Ellen Phelan, daughter of Mrs* Phelan, of Cheltenham Beach, Devon* port, who has just passed the Trinity, College (London) senior music examina-i tion, conducted by Mr. H. Saint George, at St. Mary's Convent, Hamilton, is claimed to be among tho youngest of the successful candidates ,for musical honours in New Zealand. Miss Phelan, ■who was born in Dunedin, passed her first preparatory 'musical examination when a pupil of the Nelson Convent" High School at .the early age of seven, years. j While two lads were angling" in bhtt Havelock River one hooked aa eel s<* I large that he had to call upon his companion to assist in la.nding it. Th« I eel was found to be 4ft 7in in length 1 and 14fin in circumference, while ib weighed 231b 4oz. It is interesting ta , note that this exceptionally large eel was caught in a spot much" frequented by bathers. 1 Five short sentence prisoners ara being transferred to the Lyttelton gaol from the police gaol here, says the West* port Times. This will only leave three, with less than a month to serve. Most people are asking where does Dr. Findlay's economy come in as far as . this district is concerned. It looks as if? it is going to cost as, much for warders and prisoners travelling between here and other gaols as it frequently cost to maintain the Hokitika prisoners. Tha coacft. proprietors and snipping com-, panics ' will, however, be the gainers. During the bombardment of a witnesa by cross-exaniining counsel at the Auclc* land Supreme Court, as to why certain embellishments had been addedto a cer-* tain verbal .statement, Mr. Justice Ed-* wards remarked, with a twinkle, "Yoa. have the answer in Gilbert' and Sulli-< van's 'Mikado,' where Koko says 'meta artistic detail added to give an appear-, ance of verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.* " Tha witness looked perplexed, but coanseS relished the sally. '" ■'"'*■ The people of the Commonwealth must, be laughing up their sleeve at the New. Zealand Government. For some tima past emigrants have been assisted to New Zealand, but within a short period of landing, the most desirable among them have quietly departed for Now) South Wales and Queensland, and tha Dominion has retained the -balance, «he majority being of a type unsuitable, for 4 colonial life. — Manawatu Standard. "I met a , station-holder recently .whc( was aot at all depressed by the low prices ruling for mutton," writes a correspondent from the Lower Ya^ley,, to the Wairarapa Daily ' Times. " 'You mark my words,' he said. 'I am confix dent that wethers will again reach twen-. ty shillings.' He arrived at this conclusion from the fact of the great shortrge in the American meat supply tm Europe." . : lAs showing the importance of tha fruit industry to Waikato, it may bo mentioned (says the Waikato Tunes) that at the Ohaupo, Ngaroto, and Ta Awamutu railway stations alone, during the past season over 150 tons of fruit were consigned by rail. It is estimated that the output for the Waikato' as a. whole was nearly 500 tons.