TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 151, 21 October 1896, Page 2

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

[Special to Standard.] New Plymouth, This day. Mrs Goveth, wife of Archdeacon Goveth, died last night. Wellington, This day. The barquentine which was ashore in Golden Bay yesterday floated off on last night's tide. The lighthouse keeper was unable to ascertain her name. Government has decided to abolish the extra rate of per ton per mile for the carriage of goods in classes A, B, C, or D 011 branch railways of the colony. The Newtown Band (Sydney) has entered for the Exhibition band contest. A private letter received here from the Cape indicates that Constable Murdock, who escaped some time ago from. Wellington whilst a warrant was out for his arrest, was killed recently in a skirmish between a body of the Cape troops and the Matabele natives. Mr Gilruth, the Government veterinary surgeon, in giving theN.Z. Times an account of his visit to Europe, said that the model abattiors of the world were those at Hamburg, and he spoke of the splendid system of meat inspection at Hamburg, Paris and Berlin, where inspectors are trained " vet's," and where every carcase must bear the stamp of approval before being allowed to be sold. He said decidedly that there was 110 system of inspection in New Zealand, and even in London the system was slipshod as compared with the Continent. There should be some method of inspection of frozen meat before it was sent from New Zealand, added Mr Gilruth, even if we put it 011 no higher plan than it would pay us well. When the Australian meat was put 011 the market of Hamburg it was eagerly bought until one cargo worked irreparable mischief. This consignment was affected with tubercule in the percentage of six per thousand, and after all the authorities had done to stamp out the traffic in diseased meat, they were not going to permit the introduction of meat from people who would ship a tuberculosis beast for the lack of proper inspection. Accordingly what promised to bo good market for Australian meat was summarily closed.