GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9436, 7 September 1907, Page 7

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

CHItrSTCHURCH, September 6.

The Independent Political Labor League has paosed a Tesolutien disclaiming against tho failure of bhe Liberal Party to fulfil its promises and decided that the League shculd contest overy seat for which, suitable caiadidatew J-can be found. In Canterbury, Ohristohurcli South, Biccaa-ton, Avon, and Lyttelton the seats will be contested. HOKITIKA, September 6. Miners are complaining of the want of water resulting from the dry season. The vftaiher, however, has bern very favorable tc settlers. Tk& dairy factories will bogin work immediately. Stock is w«l|l forward.

Tibia trustees <o£ lii>a Hokitika Savings Bank yesterday handed over a donation of JG4OO to tihe public library, towaa-ds which Mr Carnegie^ the American millionaire 1 , contributed £200. , • % AUCKLAND, September 7. Father Sh&ndan, ehiapuain of the Mater Mif-ericordia Hospital, died yesterday.

An electric tram wine in jManalcau road fused last night and became entiangled with a telegraph wire, which in turn became red Kot. Several hundred yards of fine wok' carried into Kilgour's butchery room which, was set alight, but thte flames Were promptly extinguished. The wit© also fused with Smythe's tobacconist shop, but no outbreak followed. ' S'K, MASTERTON, September 7.

Labor agents report that work is plentiful in ihe Wairanapa.. Bushmen we at a premium, and the wages of aigriou!tua;aJ laborers show a marked improvement compared with those Tuling down south. TheTe is an epidemic of infhiemza at Mastemton, being moxe oases than at any previous season. The mortality among breeding ewes *s asoribed' to the unusual abundance of feed. The mortality is not abnormal, but is more noticeable on account of the increased value of sheep.

In view of the eariy completion of the Main Trunk railway the New Plymouth Chamber of Comemrce is urging that to preserve the New Plymouth port trade the express joufrney from Wellington and the steamer trip should be shortened, j Interviewed by the Wanganui Chronicle's correspondent in regard to the rejection of the mining machinery item by the House, the Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister of Customs, said: "I regret the decision very much because I it has been part of our policy right through to v give encouragement to local industries, and to find work •for our own men, .whilst it is true I that the item itself (£1000) is nothing 'in consequence, still as part of the whole poiicy it was essential to carry the • principle, more especially as the. mining representatives whd -met me had practically agreed with the tariff I submitted to them at the. conference, that this 5 per cent, duty should be charged. The smallest rate of duty on any machinery can in no sense be called a strictly protective duty, it is simply an acknowledgment of the prin1 ciple that machinery should not come ■ in from abroad' to compete with our I own manufactures . without paying duty; but-knocking mining machinery off the dutiable list, as was done on Wednesday night, does not place it pa ibe free list, because all things on the free list are specifically mentioned, and if it is neither on the dutiable list 'ior, on the.free list it .conies under too heading 'n.ote.'- (hot otherwise enumerated), •beating 20 per' cent., when the new tariff takes effect. The member who carried the amendment can_ cf course move to put mining machinery on the free list when it is reached. I claim that machinery which can be made in the colony should not come 1 in free from abroad, and I am quite 1 sure this mining machinery can le j made in the colony. The biggest machine of the class named would not J cost more than £2500, according to the ' statement of one of the managers of a 1 large company. It is only the English 1 companies that can get the benefit of the knocking off of the duty, and I consider that the money would be of 1 more service to the colony. j Mr J. Crevey, ihairdresseT, late of Mr J. Macklam's, notifies tihe (public that during next week Jvc will start a hair- , dressing saloon next Gibson's Stables. I Mjp William Bolmies, iplaitelayeir, Mokoia, "notifies 1 that he is not the William Holmes referred to in the Gibson divorce \ case.