TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume x, Issue 1942, 30 May 1888, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(per united press association.)

DUNEDIN, May 30. Mr. G. McLean, M.L.C., authorises the Daily Times to contradict the report that be asked the Ministry to appoint him Axeot'General, and states that he has made do application of any kind to tbe Ministers in connection with the position. AUCKLAND, May 29. Petitions, praying that tbe Shop Hoars' Closing Bill may be given effect to, are being extensively circulated. An official enquiry into tbe stranding of the Chelmaford at Opotiki was held yesterday, by the Collector of Customs, tbe evidence being forwarded to Wellington. A stable, hayloft, and oartshed, at Papakura valley, the property of Mr. S. P. De Carteret, was bnrned early on Saturday morning. On looking over the debris De Carteret found some human remains, coneisting of a skull and other bones, bo much charred that if any on o lifted them up tbey fell to pieces. It is supposed that some trespasser went into the hayloft, and accidentally caused tbe fire, peiisbiog in the flames. The buildings wero insured for £40 in tho Soutb British office.

Mr. C.O'Hara Smith, the Government auditor, is in Hawera in order to audit the accounts of local bodies.

The Financial Statement provps to be a purely protectionist set of proposals. Further taxation is required, and the pro* ducing classes are to be called upon to subsidise the manufactnrprs and local industries. The usual fate of protective tariffs is that they, to a great extent, fail of their object. In every country where protection exists, the particular interests that benefit are always clamouring for further protection, until at last, as at present in Victoria, the farmer is in self defence lorced to ask for an export bounty on wheat. Protectionists find it convenient to forget that the more completely protection is afforded, tbe less revenue is produced. We trust that Parliament will pause before imposing on the people the burdens now proposed.

One of the advantages of the dairy factories in Taranaki is that the proprietors are vei'y enterprizing in the matter of obtaining the best market for their produce. As an instance of this wo (Daily News) may 6tate that Mr. Bayly has made arrangements with J. Duffill, a batter dealer in Latnbton Quay, Wellington, for supplying regularly the market in the Empire City with a quantity of prime, fresh butter from his factory, near Waitara. The first shipment, neatly packed in sqnare boxes, left by train this morning, and will arrive in Wellington this evening, so that it should be in the pink of condition, as the Egmont factory is specially noted for the excellent quality of its butter. The milk of 300 cows is daily manipulated at the factory with the greatest care, and the uniform good results obtained has established its reputation.

Messrs. Nolan, Tonks, and Co. sell st«ck at Kakaramea to-morrow. Mr. F. R. Jackson publishes entries of Waverley stock sale.