LAND COMMISSION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1466, 29 May 1905, Page 2

LAND COMMISSION.

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Auckland, Saturday.:”! The Land Commission sat here to-day,:

George Wilks, representing the Auckland ; Farmers’ Union, supported the because if the State sold all land to bona fide settlers it would be better off finan* cially, as there was no unearned increment to our rural land. All land should be leased with the right of purchase. Both leaseholds and freeholds should be subject to a property tax with JESOO exemption He asserted that the Government borrowed money at 3 'or 3£ and to workers at 8 and 9 per cent. v ■ "

The chairman said this was entirely wrong. By law they could charge only per centWitness insisted he was correct. Mr Andrew Jack, representing -tb& , Wade farmers, said they all favored the j. freehold. . '

Liverpool has become thoroughly ronstJiby the visit of Mr Evan Roberts, the Welsh revival leader, and hundreds of people congregate in and around tho chapels which it is believed the evangelist ffill visit. - A thousand-ton lighter, built by tho Australian Forgo and Engineering Company, was launched recently at Williamstowta, Melbourne. Sho consists of tho best steel, and is the largest vessel yet built in Victoria. She is for tho Adelaide Steam Tug Company. The Auckland Herald gives the following answer to a correspondent:—M.T.E.,4--Gisborne.—The total amount of stakes won by Mr Stead’s horses at tho Canterbury Jockey Club’s Spring Meeting in November last was £5955. Grand Rapids •»£ was the largest winner in stakes, A'lsoo - being the sum attached to his win in the Now Zealand Cup. Tho oldest Bible Christian preacher in England died recently at Sandown, in the person of Mrs Tilley Hayden. She was 91 Ar' years old. Sho started preaching before she was 20, entered the ministry at 21, and did hot givo up proaching until she was 80.

In Italy the v3lao o£ land is considered to be thirty-four times the annual rents). “ First Apostle ” Dowie has sent hia Zion City followers an “Apostolic telegram ’’ from Mexico, in which religion and shrewd business principles aro artistically blended. “We thank God for a very busy and profitable week,” says the “ Apostle.” “ Twenty-three definito offers have already been made to mo of land in many parts o Mexico, aggregating more than 20,000 / square miles. One has several hundred miles of sea front. “So far as we know, nearly all are good, and some are undoubtedly very fine. Pray for me that I may make a rich selection.” Mr E. G. B. Moss, M.H.R., for Ohinemuri, has been addressing his constituents in various parts of the district during the pass few weeks. On Friday he spoke at Hikutaia, and was well received, the hall being filled to overflowing. Mr Harding, M-H.R., addre3sedjihe Kai-

, para electors at Dargaville on Saturday evening. There was a large attendance. He declared hiraeelf an Independent candidate, and criticised Mr Seddon’a and Mr Hall-Jbnes’ Dargaville speeches. He received a good hearing, and was awarded a vote or thanks and confidence. An exchange says that comparisons » have been drawn between the French and German rules of steeplechasing. In Germany, jockeys are not permitted to pull their horses up when they are beaten, and can claim a place without distressing their mounts. In France a jockey has no need to struggle for a place, and Clemson recently received a very stormy reception from the “ Mutual ’’ gamblers in the paddock and on the heath at Auteuil when he visibly beaten, eased Gapitoui, the favorite in the Prix Agenda. He had simply obeyed the order of his the new method of that speculation dogs not pro- ' l vide for the owner. The maxim laid down is that the money for racing is supplied by the public, and that owners, content to race on such terms, should be compelled i to meet the wishes of those who, in*back- ■■ ing the favorite to win, are apt to save their investment by speculating on his running into a place. The racing authorities have tried to interest owners in the place money, which has been increased to a considerable extent.

I Mr Carnegie says the new libraries are . I only costing him £3OOO a day, whioh is r I not as much money as ho wish es to spend. ; | Ha is therefore turning his attention to ; | small colleges, where sectarian is not too' I strict. Hosts of interviewers are beseiging I him since his announced intention of I transferring his philanthropic work to anI other cause. Mr Carnegie has already I aided 51 small colleges, and expects to be I ablo to benefit another 50 before he returns to Scotland. Ho says he objects to be called a philanthropist, a word which he understands to mean a man with more money than brains. He acts on business principles in ordor that others may be induced to give. Mr Carnegie also wishes it to be known that he never made the statement “ to die rich is to die A husband charged in a SBfißlKork court with abandoning his w'ifovainly pleaded that she neglected him to look after her thirty cats. Before marriage she retorted, she had fifty cats, and surrendered twenty of them to please her hus* band. “

Let others sing o£ Prince and Kin"-, Poe mine’s a theme that’s greater'I sing that great that .wondrous thing ! King Cough Exterminator ! Mo victor in triump'r-al can i Shows conquests harts**.- sure. - greater far the tri uixr**,„ * ’'•'lDS’ GREA-P EEIV&^HtgT!

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