INTERPROVINCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 11676, 7 February 1902, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Pin UsiTis Pbbss Association.]

AUCKLAND, February 7. The police have been informed that the fisherman Fagan, who was supposed to have been stabbed, was gored by a bull at Henderson previous to his disappearance. uHRJSTCHURCH, February 7.

While the representatives of the Farmers’ Union were in Wellington this week they waited on Mr M’Gowan, official head of the Valuation Department, rs land valuation matters. Mr M’Gowan intimated that his endeavor was to make the values of tie land as level as possible. If an amending BiH were brought down he would recommend that one assessor be elected by local bodies, in a similar manner to that whereby representatives on harbor and charitable aid boards are elected. He could not _ give a rebate on lands the revenue of which was derived from wool, and which the deputation alleged had decreased in value owing to the low price of wool. The only way he could do it would be to revalue th§ whole district, and he did not think that any serious fall of values had yet taken place owing to the low price of wool. He expressed the hope that under the new Valuation Act there would be less friction than under the previous statute.

GISBORNE, February 7. Mr Donne, head of the Tourist Department, left this morning for the Nuhaka hot springs, where he wiU decide what improvements are necessary at the baths there and at Lake Waikare-Moana.

[Special to the Stab.] WELLINGTON, February 7. Mr Seddon gave the Chambers of Commerce Conference yesterday plainly to underhand that he is in favor not only of a preference to British goods, but a preference to British shipping, us against that of the outside world.