TELEGRAMS.

North Otago Times, 7 January 1908, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

—± — I'cr I'tcss Association. ELTIIAM. January. C. Mi' G. I'. Wake lias announced Mm soli as a Government candidate for the Egmont electorate. He stood for i'atea, in which, tho Egraont district wan incorporated, as an Independent, at the last election, it is oxpected tlmt there will bo a plurality oi candidates (or tlio new sent, NELSON, January G. High southerly winds, coupled with dry weather, are doing damage to the crops mid fruit, and rain is wanted. Tho hop crop is likely to lie light, and at least one hundred acres less is in cultivation. A hush iiro has dono considerable damago to standing bush at Helgrove, Wakefield, ■Several shops, including ironmongers and painters began the New year by closing on Saturday afternoons, instead ol Wednesdays.

WESTI'ORT. ' January 0. Mn Alf Smith, drowned in the Bullet river at Jnangahua Junction 011 Saturday, was the wile of a wellknown cattle-dealer, She was bathing with two younger ladies and walked out into the shallow water, but slipped over a ledge of a rock into eight feet of water, and drowned, BLUFF. January G. Arrived—Mooraki from Dunedin • H'arrimoo, from Melbourne. WELLINGTON. January 0. I'redorick Hodney, who was employed on the steamer Ilimitnngi, was discovered in a bonrdinghouße early this morning with a severe wound in his throat and a blood-stained, razor in his hand, ft is not considered that the wound will bo fatal.

During- tjic past fifty years New Zealand litis exported 18,218,678 ouncc9 of gold, valued at X71,525,!)78. Tlio icturns for Inst year show a dccrcaso of 55,031 ounces, valued-at £213,414, as compared with tho figuros for 1906, tlio totals lor tho two years being: 1'J07—508,208 ounces, valued at £2,027,490; 1906—5G3,8<13 ounces, vuluod at £2,270,901.. Tho last month's export wns' 45,839 ounces, valued at £181,719, a3 compared with 51,6-19 ounces, valued at £208,980 in December, 1906.

DUKEDIN, January 0. Tlio Union Company's new steamer now building on tlio. Clyde will be named the Jlakoura, which practically means all red. Tlio new vessel ia intended for tho Vancouver trade, and will bo 450 feet long. A special, meeting of tho Woollen Manufacturers' Association will bo hold at Christclnirch to-morrow night re tho payment of women and boys under tho Factories Act. Last year tho mill-owners objected to paying tho hands for a full week whether working or not. Mr Scott, secretary of tho Association, will leave for Christchurch to-morrow to attond tho meeting. , Tho Duncdin Labor Union lias decided to writo all similar local bodios as 10. tho desirability of holding a monthly! conference with a view to increasing the membership of the various unions, and also combining, the members of unions moro strongly lor the purpose of strengthening the Political labor League.