TELEGRAPHIC.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5372, 3 September 1904, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC.

MESS ASSOCIATION. HAWERA, September 2. Hawcra, Okaiawa, Manaia and Non. manby were; lit with electricity for the fust time to-night. NAPIER,, September 2. At a meeting of the Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society held to-day a resolution was passed:—"That in the opinion of this society it is not desirable that the Stud Bill in its pre* sent form should he passed.": HOKITIKA, September 2. The annual meeting of the shareholders; in the Kokatahi Dairy Factory adopted, a resolution for the payment of a dividend of sixpence per share and a bonus of three farthings per lb on the quantity of butter-fat supplied. This will amount to about JI3OO. .The surplus on th« year’s transactions is £ 394. There is evrfry indication that the milk supply fof the coming season will bo increased 33 per cent. TBIABU, September 2. A ballot for two Icasc-m-perpetuity farms was hold here to-day. For 231 acres, a surrendered lot, in the Rosewill set. tleinent, there wore twenty-one applicants, and for a forfeited farm of the same area at the Bcoleston. settlement there were forty names in the ballot. Ten applications were rejected.