TELEGRAMS. DUNEDIN ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1909, Page 3

TELEGRAMS. DUNEDIN ITEMS.

[BY TELEGRAPH — SPECIAL TO THE POST.] DUNEDIN, This Day. Three local bookmakers charged with fitreefc betting in connection with the Gore races last week, and a Chinaman charged with selling pak-a-poo tickets, will appear before the Police Court this v eek Captain Scott is to bo asked to make his New Zealand quarters here, and to take his departure for the Antarctic from Otago Heads. Mr. Peter Barr, chairman of the Finance Committee of the City Council, who has just returned from a visit to the Commonwealth, says : "Everywhere I went I was struck with the beautiful appearance of the country. I was assured that Australia never looked better than it does at present. There is an air of exuberant prosperity about the people that is quite noticeable. One of the Railway Commissioners of New South Wales told me that if the present rate of increase continues, they would have over a million people in Sydney in ten years." Councillor Barr pays a special tribute to the splendid arrangements made by the Tourist Department of New South Wales. He says : "They are carried out on the most complete and up-to-dato lines." Mr. Kenrick, S.M., leaves to-morrow for Hawera. Mr. Porritt, the newlyappointed Magistrate, has settled in Dunedin. WELLINGTON HOSPITAL DISTRICT. \ PROPOSED SECESSION. [BY TELEGRAPH — SPECIAL TO THE POST.] PALMERSTON N., This Day. A movement is afoot for the transfer of the Tokomaru District from the Wellington Hospital District to the area under the jurisdiction of the Palmerston Board. The secessionists have prepared a petition to the Minister, asking that the transfer be effected under the new Hospital Bill. The reasons given are : That while the Horowhenua County, of which Tokomai-u is a riding, contributes £1600 a. year to the Wellington institution, nine of ten of the cases come to the Palmerston Hospital, and that the great distance to Wellington — 80 miles — as compared with ten to Palmerston, causes great suffering to patients and inconvenience to their relatives. GLEN OROUA FACTORY. [BY TELEGRAPH — SPECIAL TC THE POST.] PALMERSTOX N., This Day. Nearly a million pounds of butter, or about 412 tons weight, were manufactured at the Glen Oroua factory last year — an increase of 35 tons over the previous year. Owing to the variation in values; however, the increased bulk brought the same return as in 1908. The 1 gross profit on the manufacturing account was ±53470, and the net J8854, enabling a 6 per cent, dividend to bo paid. Every pound of butter took 22.721bs of milk, and a bonus of one*eighth of a penny per pound of fat will be paid to suppliers. The directors, in their annual report, speak hopefully of the results of the pasteurising experiment being carried out by the Government to eradicate tuberculosis, which is very prevalent in the pig herds of the district. A CASE OF INTEREST TO FARMERS. [by telegraph— special to the post.] PALMERSTON N., This Day. Farmeys will be interested in a case heard by Mr. Thomson, S.M., at the Police Court yesterday. Nicholas Donohue, of Fitzherbert East, laid an information against D. Gordon because the latter, being the owner of land adjoining his land, did jauster his sheep for the purpose of earmarking them, without giving notice to the complainant of such muster. Mr. Innes, who appeared for defendant, pleaded guilty on his behalf, but in extenuation said the provision of the Act requiring such notification was more honoured in the breach than in the observance among small farmers, The Magistrate said it was well that farmers should know the requirements of the Stock Act. Defendant was convicted and fined Is, with costs lls. and solicitor's fee, £1 Is. SEAT OF GOVERNP4ENT. AUCKLAND'S ASPIRATIONS. [BY TELEGRAPH — SPECIAL TO THE POST.] AUCKLAND, This Day. The effort being inado by Mi*. A. E Glover, M.P. for Auckland Central, to induce the Government to consider tho transference of the seat of Government back to Auckland, is supported by the president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce (Mr. B. Kent). "The seat of Government," says Mv Kent, "should never have .been shifted from this city ; but in any case the causes which led to tho transference no longer exist. Tho isolation of tho city has been removed by the opening of the Main Trunk line, and it would be an admirable thing, from every point of view, if the seat of Government were in Auckland. We have ample room for the accommodation of tho respective Houses, and as a new House of Parliament is to bo erected, ike time seems quite opportune-) for the question to be very seriously considered. Although some members of the House, in their attempts at sarcasm, asked where Auckland was, to men who live in a haystack only one advice can be given :' to com© put into the world, and know where Auckland is, and they will never want to leave it." MOIST, [BY TELEGRAPH — SPECIAL TO THE POST.] PALMERSTON N., This Day. The excessive moisture of the season is shown by the fact 'that rain fell on twenty-one days in Palmerston last • month, the total fall being nearly 4in. TPRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH CANAL SCHEME CIIRISTCHUPvCH, Ist Nov. At to-day's meeting of the Lyttelton Harbour Board Mr. A. Kaye gave notice to move— "That, as the general 1 public is not satisfied with either the 'majority' or 'minority' report on thfi canal question, and considering the expenses already incurred and the importance of the question as affecting the future prosperity of Canterbury, a^ special committee be set up to go thoroughly into the whole matter ; and that in order to have the various points fully-con-sidered in as impartial manner as posthe following gentlemen be invited to meet with a committee of the board to be hereafter set up, viz., the Hon. E. Mitchelson (Auckland), Messrs W. Ferguson (Wellington), and J. E. Watson (Invercargill), together with a compe-

tent accountant to be hereafter selected ; and that this committee be at liberty to take into consideration all and every matter affecting the question of a canal .from seaward and landward, and the financial aspects, and to call for all and every kind of evidence they may desire." The matter will come up for consideration at the next meeting on Ist December. TIMARU TO CHRISTCHURCH CYCLE ROAD RACE. CHRISTCHURCH, Ist Nov. The executive of the Timaru to Christchurch cycling road race met to-night to consider a request from the secretary of tho S^uth Canterbury Centre of the League of Wheelmen to hold inquiry into an allegation that R. Arnst, after withdrawing from the contest and travelling some distance in a motor-car, had remounted a bicycle and paced J. Arnst, who covered the distance in the fastest time. It was found that the regulations did not cover the point at issue, and the matter was dismissed. • TOO AMBITIOUS. AUCKLAND, Ist November. Apparently Mr. Carnegie is of opinion that Parnell is too ambitious co far as i the erection of the free library, for ] which it is proposed he shall find the funds, is concerned. Last August plans of a building to cost £5000 were sent to him. At to-night's meeting of the Parnell Council a letter was received from Mr. Carnegie's private secretary, expressing the opinion that it should not take more than half of £-5000 to erect a suitable free public library for a plact with 5700 inhabitants. , He suggested less elaborate plans, saying that a building in good taste and with adequate accommodation ought to be out ud for just half the sum that Parnell wanted Mr. Carnegie to orovide. TROUT FISHING IN AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, Ist November. _ The trout-fishing season, which opens m this part of New Zealand a month later than in the South, began to-day, and will extend to the end of May. a .month longer than previously. The -Tongariro River is said to be full of fish, j and the upper reaches of the Waikato are I well spoken of. Good reports have been I received of the various lakes and of the Rangataiki River, near Galatea, which has always been a favourite stream for' fly fishers Lake Takapuna, at Auckland, has been stocked by tho local Acclimatisation Society, and is expected to aftord good sport. HOTEL LICENSEE'S RESPONSIBILITIES. CHRISTCHURCH, Ist November. At the Police Court to-day John Morrison, licensee of the European Hotel, was charged with supplying liquor to a person already in a state of intoxication. It was admitted that liquor was supplied by a brother of the licensee. For the defence the point was raised that a servant, not the licensee, was answerable. Decision was xeserved.