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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 9, 11 January 1912, Page 6

A number of patoral runs iv Wa-tlao», Southland, and Lake Counties will b© offered for license by public auction at Invercargill next month. ,

The subscription list for the purehaeo of the Hawkes Bay A. and V. Society's new showground atTomoona, near Haal-, tings, now stands at £2306, the latest subscriber* being Mr. Arch. M'Loan £50 and Mr. 11. M. Campbell, M.l\, £26. Mr. George Bell, kte of Stonev Creek, near Paimoreton, was an exhibitor at the Grand International Poultry Show at tho Crystal Palace, London. Sis birds received second and thkd places. They were entered as being owned and bred by Mr. G. 8011, Stonoy Creek, Manu. wtttu, New Zealand". Th© Bay of Plenty farmers arc going in largely for dairying. One shipment from iauranga to Auckland recently" included 410 cases from Te Puke factory, Ibb from lauranga factory, wid 42 from Matata, factory. Tho direct ti-fldo with Wellington, that wa» talked ot » few years ago, has not yet com© to pass. Up to the present time 2500 bales of Wool have crossed th© Waiau bridge this year, en route for Culvej-dcn, and thcr« w etill a good deal of sheaving to >» j' «,,"*** carrying firm lias aver, aged 45 bales per day for some weeks. A good deal of wool wu &hut off the January sale owing to {ho long cartag©. Tho following amounts have been xeceived by the Educational Institute towards tho benevolent fund: —Auckland. £18 5 Tanwufci, £3 3s $ Wanganui, £6j Nelson, £3 3s j North Canterbury, £5 6s; Westland, £1} Grey, £2 2e; South-" land, £4 4e } South Canterbury, £8> Otago, £5j a total of £66 3«. The total amount now in the benevolent fund is £353 8s Bd. Dr. Schon© assured his hearers at Victoria College last evening that New Zealanders appeared to him to be more enthusiastic about sport than $yen the Australians. He descriibed how th© crowd watched a recent big fir© in Auckland, a* it would watch a cricket match, applauding the gallant firemen as they scored point after point against the unchained element. So, too, in th© recent elections he had noticed a good deal of tho (sportsmanlike feeling that expressed itself' in a. feeling of justice, to give th© other side a chance. The much-talked-bf railway between Wairio and Birchwood in now about to become an accomplished fact, work having been commenced there during the past few weeks. The line, which is being constructed by a private company, will (says the Southland Tim©*) prove a great boon to settlers on th© recently, cut-up Birchwood Estate. < The distance from Wairio to Birchwood is about seven miles, the land passed through being all good agricultural country. The advent of tho railway will also give accees to largo cotii areas in the Biichsvood district — coal, it is said, which ranks as high as that obtained at Kaitangata. With reference to a local in The Post yesterday quoting a business man's I statement regarding the number of emptyhouses in Vetone, "Nil Desperandum" writes :— "Your informant must be drawing on his imagination to a large extent. I am credibly informed from an official source that the number 1 of empty houses does not exceed fifty, and of this lot there are a good number which are hardly habitable. The statement that Petone's population is drifting to the Hutfc must b© taken cum grano tialis. Petone has mor© than held her own in the past in comparison with the Hutt, and in the near future Petone's increase' of population will be euch as to convince even ,your informant, who profeaßoa to know' the facts of the case.,' Mr. Tom Morgan, tho Engli«h brass band expert, who acted as chief musical adjudicator at th© recent Eisteddfod at Ballerat, at a farewell gathering) saidt that, although he had oeen fly© -months in th© Commonwealth, h© hud only visited two States, viz., Victoria and New South Wales. In that time, however^ he had seen enough to fttrongly convince him that th© man waa a fool who stopped in England in poverty when there was a glorious land like Australia to come to. His enquiries and observations during his tour around Vie» toria and New South Wale* also convinced him that everything was in fay* our of the man who wanted to strike out. Everybody, 'he said, seemed to have a chance in Australia, in which he found there were good wages, good living, a glorious climate, and good people. Mr. Morgan, in concluding his remarks, said it was his intention to act as a voluntary Australian immigration agent when he got back Home. National prohibition docs not appeal to Dr. Schone ac the true solution of the liquor problem in New Zealand. Ha told hi* hearer* last evening that he woe surprised to' see co much drunkenness in New Zealand. "The number of drunken nien you meet in th© streets her* is shocking," he said. With this state of thing* tlie statistic* did not tally, for th© New Zealand consumption of alcohol per head was comparatively small, smaller than Germany, and yet many an Englishman hud remarked to him on th© fact that in Germany they had never seen a drunken woman, and but rarely a, drunken' man. Dr. Schone, while clearly condemning national prohibition R6 an .infringement of th© liberty of th© subject, and doomed to ultimate failure, suggested that the situation might be improved by the suppression of "shouting," tli© abolition of the " bar " system, and the provision of a light, pure, wholecom© beer at a cheap price. Liquor should b© served with meals, and a very high duty should be levied on spirits. Mr. J. J. Meikle writes concerning an a-rticl© (published yesterday) from. Th© Post's London correspondent deaiing with the late Mr. Justice Grantham's caireer. Referring to the Beck case, Mr. Meikle aay» that th© lejtal authority from whose a-rtici© in tli© Daily Mail our London (correspondent tauoted is not correct in stating that Mr. Justice Grantham .wae one of the' firsb to shake Beck's hand after tho discovery was ' made that Beck, who had been put back for sentence, was not guilty, but that the crimes for which he find been found guilty had been committed by a "doubie." Mr. Meikle quotes a letter from Sir William Grantham to Adolph Beck in which the former expressed his* belief, after special enquiries, that he had no doubt whatever of the correctness ot th© verdict, and therefore could not direct or allow any other investigation . to he made. Mr. Justice Grantham " had nothing to do," says Mr. Meikle, "with the release of th© late Mr. Beck. . ._ . There must have been someone who lied to tho chiefs of the departments, someone who deceived and hoodwinked the pubUo prosecutor, th© Home Office, th© chiefs ot Scotland Yard— aye, even th©. Judge upon the Bench— for someoae satisfied Mr. Justice. Grantham that Adoluh Beck's conviction was juet; and had it not been for » detective-inspector he (Beck) would have ended his ln«h <ky» in s, convict.'A cell." Men's ready-to-woir «p«rting suits, with breeches or irousers, in assorted Donegal tweeds, at 47s 6d, 565, 635. Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd.— Advt. Why you should attend this sola— First: and foremo«t it will «aye you money on just the goods you require fit the present moment; secondly, it i| a money-savlng opportunity possessing" unusual merit, coming at this time of the year when you have the pick of the season's goods at about half thwr usual prices^ For this aunu«l sale prices cut but little figure, tha ©no *nd sole object in view behts to dispose of this seasons ttoek to make rdom for the new goods shortly to arrive* C. Sintth, kfcd.; .Cuba-jsteo©t.-Advt,