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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 160, 26 July 1889, Page 2

The Wellington Harbor Board returns Show the export of fl-x from Wellington during the year ended June, 1889, waa 33,641 baleß, against. 9804 for tho year ended June, 1888. During ihe same period there was an increase of 19,000 bales iv tho export of wool. The two atories regarding the alleged journey of Mr James Gordon Bennett (New Xork Herald) are equally sensational. One is that, nnder a heavy wager, he has undertaken to visit Khartoum and leave it alive— a feat said to be at present impossible of accomplishment. The other is that Mr Bennett has received news that General Gordon is alive— a close prisoner —and that his keeper offers him for ransom for 1,000,000 francs. That on reoeipt of the information, Mr Bennett made arrangements for the payment of the Bum mentioned, and started off with a friend the other day. This is just the sort of thing that Bennett would do. Mr Fish, who, as an old officer of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows, has shown a great interest in the question of the solvency of friendly societies, recommends the -Premier to instruct the Registrar of Friendly Sooieties, in publishing his annual reports in future, to define, in the interests of the sommunity generally, those sooieties which are financially sound, and whioh are not, i inasmuch, as in his reports at preseat I framed, in the eyes of the uninitiated as all are condemned alike, Carrying out a suggestion made by the Marquis of Lome a short time back, Mr J. E, Craoknell (sayß the European Mail) has arranged to make a practical experiment in colonisation in the North Island of New Zealand, and to that end a party of 12 people — from Lancashire— are to be sent off on May 30. The party is a suitable one in every way, consisting of several married couples and families, and all possessed of that essential requisite for a mission of the kind— a practical agricultural experience. The whole of the outlay in connection with the experiment iB falling upon Mr Cracknell's shoulders, and he is still some few hundreds short. A large number of philanthropic gentlemen have come forward to assist, and one gentleman has generously handed Mr Cracknell a cheque foe £100 to help him through the affair.