COOK ISLANDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13296, 1 October 1906, Page 7

COOK ISLANDS.

[FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Rarotonga, September 20. Affairs have been very quiet for the last month. The copra crop has hardly been up to expectations. The output up to the present has hardly exceeded (>OO tons, although more ie yet to come. The orang:e crop is about done as far as Rarotonga is concerned. The trees are now flowering profusely, promising a large crop for next year. Banana* will be in abundance for the next few months. The French California-built fore-and-aft schooner "Panuarii Tahiti left here on September 1 for Wenrhvn and other northern islands to pick up a. cargo of pearlshell and copra. From thence the schooner proceeds on to Auckland for the purpose of overhaul and the fitting of an oil engine. Mr. Percy Brown, the lately-appointed Government fruit inspector, arrived from Wellington last week. It is understood that the proposed fumigation of fruit at this end has been shelved for fc&e present. >■ The accommodation-house lately erected -by the Government has been fully occupied for -the past few months. An extension of the building will probably be necessary next year. No ordinary medicine reaohes the seat 'of a cold or cough like Baxter's Lung Preserver. It penetrates every inch of the delicate membranes of the throat and lungs.