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Evening Star, Issue 18171, 11 January 1923, Page 4

A deputation of representative business men waited upon tho mayor this morning and asked that steps be taken, in the interests of tho city, to retain Tahuna Park oa a show ground 1 and a park. Several suggestions were made, and. His Worship promised to consider the question of approaching tho Agricultural and Pastoral Society on tho matter. Considerable interest is being taken in the coming visit to the port of Otago of the Union Steam Ship Company’s fine passenger steamer Moeraki. The vessel will make her reappearance to-morrow morning, after an absence of eight years and' a-half. Tho Moeraki has been placed in the Melbourne-New Zealand service in place of the Paloona, She is a much larger and more modem vessel than tho latter, and her advent will no doubt result in increased passenger traffic over what is known by seasoned travellers as tho “horseshoe route.” Tho Moeraki was engaged in tho Melbourne-New Zealand trade for several years before tho outbreak of tho Groat War, and was a very popular ship with travellers. She made her last visit to Dunedin on July 21, 1914. Up to recently she was engaged in tho Sydney-New Zealand service, making alternate trips to Auckland and Wellington. Tho steamer has been returned to tho Melbourne service owing to the increased trade and at tho request of South Island merchants and shippers, and it is to be hoped that the trade will warrant her retention. The Moeraki, which is under the command of Captain J. G. S. Doorly (late of the Paloona), is of 4,421 tons gross register, or 1,630 tons larger than the Paloona. She arrived at Bluff last night from Melbourne, manned with a non-union orow. On reaching Dunedin she will berth at the cross wharf

Our Omstchuroh con'espondent wires that in North Canterbury' earth tremors have been a frequent occurrence since the Christmas Day quake, and people are kept nervously apprehensive of another fall of chimney tops. There was a very distinct shock yesterday. All tho available bricklayers have been busily engaged since Christmas repairing chimneys, but it will bo some weeks before their work is completed. The Junction Hotel at Bangiova suffered tho most damage. The repairs will cost over £6CO. As a result, of tho recent warm weather (says the ‘Dunstan Times’) tho peach and apricot crop has come in rapidly, and big consignments are tho rule. Last Friday morning’s train had seven waggon load's of fruit.

A largo quantity of oversea mail matter reached Dunedin this afternoon by tho first express from tiro north. The mails comprised sixty-seven bags from tho United Kingdom and twenty-three bags from Australia ex the steamers Ulimaroa and Marama at Wellington and Auckland respectively. The contents will bo distributed in the city and suburbs to-morrow m.Qrning. Nine bags of mail matter from Australia, ex the Moeraki at Bluff, reached Dunedin this morning. The contents were delivered this afternoon.

A well-known sportsman mentioned to a Wellington ‘ Times ’ reporter bow expensive it tv as .to go deer shooting in Scotland, and said it was impossible to get a shoot for less than £SOO. For that sum one could .pay all expenses of tho trip to New Zealand, obtain a license—£3 at the most—-and get as good deer shooting as ho wanted. In Marlborough the license costs only 15s. In fact, many people do come from England for tho deer shooting, and also for the trout fishing, which in New Zealand is as good as in any part of the world.

After tho 1 o’clock Woodville-'Welling-ton express loft tho former station on Friday afternoon a shriek was heard by tho passengers, and a child was seen to fall from one of the carriages. The train was smartly pulled up (says tile ’ Manawatu Standard ’), and a surfaceman in the vicinity, noting the incident, rushed to tho locality. lie picked up the child and placed a jigger on the rails, set off after the train, and promptly returned ithe child to its relatives. It was discovered that tho child, though suffering from shock and slight Bruises, was none tho worse for its very narrow escape from death. It had fallen clear of tho train and the heavy ballast on the lino.

The quarterly auction of fruit hawkers’ stands in Wellington produced £65 less than for the corresponding quarter' last year, although the proceeds to the City Council were £248 more than was received for the last quarter. Tho record price of £B4 10s was paid for the stand outside the tramway despatch office, whidh (says the ‘Post ’) is evidently tho best paying site in tho city. Competition was keen and bidding spirited, and it was eventually knocked down at £2O more than was paid for it last January. The dupiping trouble has apparently affected tho fruit trade and accounted for the comparatively low prices realised for other stands. The January--Marcih quarter is regarded as the best of tho year. In view of this fact the result of tho sale is disappointing. Tho sum realised yesterday was £493 12s 6d, as compared with £558 17s 6d in January last year, and £245 17s 6d at the last sale.

A catalogue of 25,000 bales will bo offered to buyers at the Wellington wool sales next week. The wool (says tho Wellington ‘Times’) has ooine to hand with a rush, and no more can bo accepted for the January offering. The market has a promising look about it, but it. may not sustain all growers’ ideas of values. For the second wool sale, to bo hold in the Napier Municipal! Theatre to-morrow, all the brokers will offer full catalogues, 27,500 bales being the (total offering. At the sale of fruit stands in Wellington one of tho Indians went up to the office counter and put down a £IOO note to .pay for his purchase. Another who had purchased one of the best stands drew a fruit bag from his pocket, which on being turned out proved to be full of one, five, ami ten pound notes, aggregating a considerable sum.

A pleasing little episode, showing that political .rivalry need not enter into other phases of life, occurred at the Tarn aid West beach carnival, opened on Saturday at St. Heliors Ray and Kohinmrama Beadi (states the Auckland ‘Herald’). Sir Frederic Lang, who at the recent ejection lost Hie Manulcau seat to Mr W. J. Jordan, the Labor candidate, performed the opening ceremony, and lie and Mr Jordan motored together (between, places at which the carnival was taking place. During the .afternoon ithoy were chatting together, apparently without a. thought that only about a month ago they were political rivals.

A Christchurch telegram states that the following cable message has been sent by the British Incorporated Society of Meac Importers to the New Zealand Meat Producers) Board relative to the question of kidneys Referring to your cablegram of January 5, you are making a change in the established custom of dressing lamb against the conceited opinion of the trade, both wholesale and retail. If you pursue this course the responsibility is yours. The buyers expect you to make good all losses caused them by your arbitrary action. We utterly fail to understand, why you should order this change against tire unanimous and Strongest protests of the trade who have (been buyers of New Zealand lamb for many years." A To Kuiti Association message states that the magisterial recount in connection with the Waitomo election poll finished this morning, the result being:—J. C. Rolleston (Reform), 3,418; W. T. Jennings (Liberal), 3,393; informal, 37.

A Wellington Association message states that the delegates and members attending the sixteenth congress held under the auspices of the Australasian Society for the Advancement of Science wore tendered a civic reception in the Town Hall to day. Those in at tendance numbered about 400, including 100 from Australia.

.There was a big "'house” at His Majesty’s Theatre Just night, when, the .Mian Wiilkio Company concluded Its Dunedin season. The play was ' A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ and the audience enjoyed it thoroughly. At the conclusion of the performance the applause was loud mid sustained, and Mr Wilkie returned thanks in a speech, during which ho said ■he hoped to return about April of next year with four new plays in his repertoire—viz., ‘ King Lear,’ ‘The Tempest, ‘A Winter’s Tale,’ and ‘Much Ado About Nothing.* Last night, he added, was tlie company’s 654tih consecutive performance of Shakespeare, which he believed to be a world’s record. Despite the fact that the Dunedin season had been a financial failure, there was no city in the Southern Hemisphere that he liked better to visit, or where he had more good friends. He took occasion to thank Miss Hilda Dorrington for her fine work, and to congratulate her on the successful manner in which she had filled the breach occasioned by the indisposition of Mass Hunter-Watts. Miss Hun-ter-Watts, he announced, had fully recovered, and would from now on resume her place in the company. A number of beautiful floral tributes were handed over the footlights for the ladles of the company.

Special arrangements are now being made for slogans advertising New Zc<v land-made goods to bo placed on the leading railway stations throughout New Zealand. The campaign is being run by the manufaciturerri through the Industrial Corporation. The arrangements have been practically completed. It is understood that the scheme is meeting with the general approval of manufacturers’ associations. Each centre will contribute its share of the cost, and it is intended to use part of the surplus from the Dominion Industrial Exhibition just concluded In Christchurch to defray Canterbury’s share of the coat.—From our Obrictehurah correspondent.

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