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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1190, 21 December 1894, Page 6

The National Agricultural Union has resolved to promote a strong party in the House of Commons to claim the appointment of a Royal Commission to enquire as to the best means of lessening the burden of taxation on the agricultural community. The local' agents for the Matatua have been advised that the steamer left Rio for Plymouth on Thursday afternoon, with her cargo .of frozen meat in good condition. The descriptive pamphlet which we mentioned some time since that the Government were having prepared with a view to the sale of the Blind River Estate in Marlborough, is now ready. It is a neat little brochure, consisting of ,13 pages of letterpress and 10 excellent photo-litho-graphs. Fifteen hundred copies, have been struck off, and these it is intended to distribute among the chief surveyors, the post offices, railway stations, hotels and libraries of the Colony, while the Umeh Company’s: steamers 1 will also-be-fttisttiShed - TE»- amtoiigstJ sheep has been • very great oh'some' parts of the East Coast this yearr One settler is reported to have Tost 700 sheep out of a flock of 2700. Up to Saturday night the milk of no less than 217 cows had been guaranteed by ten persons for the proposed creamery at Te Ore Ore. Out of the 200 shares required 52 have been guaranteed.