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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9640, 15 January 1903, Page 2

lll ™f.' lttf t Uwbonie for Kaitaratahi at 1.00 this afternoon. annul of laupm. coal, which they are selling cheap. fr,!\ rg \i 12 i tO 15 , h f- e »Bine'«i-rivwl num. Auckland yesterday consigned by Messrs Jolm Burns and Co to tlie Karaka Saw-nulling Co. Probate was grouted on Saturday m the estate of William King, Makuuri, to John Ijionia* King, John Clark, and William Henry .King. Mr Sievwri»l*t appeared 111 support of the application. Whilst two boys, Jack and Kenneth iirowu, were shooting at Otara, Opotiki, last week, the laser's rifle accidentally discharged, inflicting a nasty wound m tue- formers tlugh. Following are the latest alterations to the telephone exchange list : .Delete from list, 163 Sinclair, W. F., private residence, Whataupoko. Add to list, 163 ™° Ul V n , aild Laxv > butchers, Whataupoko,; 210. Ihelwall, Robert, private residence, Aberdeen road. Judgment went by default at the Magistrate's Court this inorniug m the uudefemled. caseis of Albeit Peter Agnew (Mr G. H. Lysnar) v. Edward Groom, claim £5 4s, costs £1 5s 6d ; Henry Martin (Mr -Lincoln Rees) v. P. Conolly, claim £4, costs 10s. Dr. Gihner, who has been appointed to visit the various centres of the colony to iiiispect returned troopers who have been on the sick list, concluded a \isit to Gisborne this week. The only patit".iLs to come before him were Lieutenant Lung-ford and Trooper Parker. The matmii of the Hospital acknowledges with thanks: — Fruit from Mrs Holden, vegetables from Mr T. Steele, aerated waters from Messrs Lucas and Berry, old linen from Mrs J. Orr; also Christmas cakes, fruit and flowers from other friends. King's mill has been, re-erected m Scott's Bush, Kaitaraitahi, where there is a fine clump of kahikatea limber, sufficient l<v keep the mill going for 18 months. In the (Tush are trees fully sft m diameter. Air King advertises that he is now prepared to receive orders for timber. Owners and trainers are reminded that nominations for the under-mentioned events for the Poverty Bay Turf Club's annual meeting, to be held on. February .19 and 20, close with, the secretary (J. M. Cumming) on Saturday next, 17th inst., at 9.30 p.m.— viz., Turanga, Sunderland and County Stakes, First and Second Hurdles, - Flying, Stewards', and Publicans' Purse Handicaps. Complaints about a shortage of water are becoming common, and the question of how to obtain a sufficient supply until tilieir tanks are replenished by rain is a serious one with householders. At last night's meeting of the Hospital Trustees, the Visiting Committee mentioned that the Hospital had to obtain a supply from the brewery. Last evening the Poverty Bay Rowing Club's double scull competition for photos presented by Mr B. S. Cox was brought to a conclusion. J. Smith and R. Donkins (3sec) met V. Somervell and A. W. Kirk (3sec). The latter pair secured the lead, but at the footbridge Smith and Donkins assumed command, which, they kept to the finish, winning by over a length. As the Waihi was leaving the Mokoia last evening, the Gisborne folk aboard were entertained by the strains of the bagpipes played by a passenger aboard the big steamer, and Captain Gibb posted his bugler boy on the bridge to play ''Say Au Revoir, but not Good-bye." The genial Captain Gibb paid a visit to the shore yesterday, the first for some considerable time, and was heartily welcomed by many friends. The inquest on Charles W. Johnsen, killed on the railway works near Kaitaratahi yesterda}\ was being held at that place this afternoon before Mr W. A. Barton, S.M., District Cwroner. As a mark of respect to deceased the men employed on the 'works .have knocked off work to-day. 'Joluisen, was ae Scandinavian, and wasi well known about the Spit. Following was the jury : Messrs W. J. Brown, J. S._ Michael Rice, John Cassidy, George" Sauhdefs, arid M. Beason. The Gazette notifies thai 50 acres of land at Kaitaratahi has been, taken for tlie- use, convenience and enjoyment of the Gisborne-Karaka railway. This is, we understand, what is known as the ballast pit reserve, and through the courtesy of the officers of the Railway and Public Works Department it will be made available at nil times to picnic parties, who may obtain pemission' on, applying at the railway station. Another section notified m the Gazette as having, been taken is 3 roods 29perches at Makauri, reserved for the purpose- of a, station at King's road. : An interest ing work was m progress at Messrs Mackrell and Colby's yards, this afternoon, when the large smok« stack obtained for the- firm's new -boiler; to be used 4 in connection with the planing plant, was being placed m position. Tlie smoke-stack measures 60ft m length and is over one ton m weight. It had to be raised to a perpendicular position and then, lifted on to a brickwork foundation some sft m height, a task necessitating a great deal of care. A large derrick pole was erected for the purpose of the operation. Unfortunately, as the stack was almost m position* some of the gear on tlie derrick collapsed, and it fell with a tremendous crash' and broke m two. No one was injured. |

The discoveiy lias been made that the kahmvai m Hawke's Bay waters are feed- 1 ing vii the young soles. , An I'iiergetic endeavor is to be made to establish an, Agricultural and Pastoral Association at Daunevirke. 1 The Pri-mier is being banqueted and ' entertained aA. all centres on the West Coast. ; According to the Herald, it is unlikely that Saturday will be the day on which. tJie woddy half-holiday is to be observed, m Paliialua,. The latest diversion of the larrikin of luvercargill is the breaking of gas lamps dur'uug tha niyhb. Frequently as many as 12 are found broken m the morning. A bull ring trust has been formed at Madrid. The object of the trust is to put an end to the exorbitant demands of the matadors, who for every performance receive £200. Mr W. 11. Brown, manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Teniuka, who met with I a serious accident last Saturday week, has not yet thoroughly regained consciousness. The uncertainty of the land ballot is often commented on. A representative of the Stratford Settler heard of one man making no less than 32 applications for land m eight years and he has not yi-t j .succeeded m getting a section. Who can sa.y "there is nothing- m luck?" A diminutive negro named Samuel Gray, whom the police' records of Washj ington show to have been drunk for 40 yeurs, lias been sent to the workhouse as a vagrant. Gray boasted that he* would remain drunk a.s" long as the world's supply, of whisky held out . Mr 11. K. Simpson, of Rangitikei, recently returned from a trip to the Old Country. At Ceylon he met General Sir Hector Mucdonald, who told him that he (the general) looked back with great pleasure to his trip to New Zealand some fifteen months ago. A lady spectator luus written to the Manawatu Times as follows: — I should like to suggest that a working bee should be promoted m Palmieraton to make pinafores for our cricketers to field the balls m. Such a provision would result m a great saving of shoe-leather. A paragraph is going the rounds to the effect that Mi* Walter Bentley, the wellknown tragedian, who appealed to such advantage m the drama, "The Silence of Dean, Maitland," had joined the church. The Walter Bent-ley referred to is an American of that name. By latest accounts Walter Bentley, actor, was touriii" Scotland, impersonating tha-t great detective "Sherlock Holmes," the chief character m "A Mystery of the Bank of England." — Wairarapa Daily Times. Stratford Settler remarks :— The country side between Stratford and Wanganui is at the present time looking splendid. As far as the eye can reach on each side of the road, there is an abundant supply of feed. Cattle can be seen feeding m grass .high above their knees, and the sheep are simply revelling m the rich pasture 'of hill and valley. A run through the province just now would soon open the eyes of the uninitiated to the secret of Tarana-ki's prosperity. Photographers will be glad to know that there are to be no more dark rooms. l)r Heai'kiel, of Berlin, has patented an invention which, he says, will dispense with the services of the dark room for developing m photography. All you have to do is to place your plate m Ids reddishcolored solution, which he. has christened "Toxin," for two minutes, after which the film is impervious to light. You can then develop m broad daylight, and watch the figures m the negative its they gradually assume shape. Tht' printer and publisher of the Mount Lyall Standard (Tasmania), together with their two guarantors, have been released from gaol, where they were detained for four days, m consequence of the proprietor's failure to settle a libel suit decided against him m September last. The money was cabled by" Melbourne sympathisers. Defendants received several offers of the loan of the money necessary to secure their release, but refused them, considering the action of the Tasmanian Government harsh m the extreme. One of the settlers m the Wellington Fruitgrowers' Block has liad a rather sad experience. About 10 years ago lie selected as a cash purchase 32 acres, and this, under the conditions, he was bound to improve within seven years. Unfortunately, he did not commence the improvements till a year ago. and now, besides paying for the land, he has expended £45 on improvements. On his application for a title coming before the Land Board, the members decided that under the Act they had no power to issue a title, as the land and improvements had reverted to the Grown. — Post. The colony's exports for tlie year just passed are expected to break the record with an amount not far short of 15 millions sterling. The imports amount to about 12 millions, showing a good balance of trade m favor of the colony. Of the exports, the gold export is one of the healthiest. On December 31, 1899, it was £1,689.930, m 1900 it ran up to £1,500,000 (slightly over), the next year it reached £1,753.783. and last December it, came to £1,951,430. This is just under tinrecord of. 1873, which wiis £1,987,425, but the number of ounces is somewhat more on the present occasion. At St. Heliers (Eng.) a Miss Edith Simonten committed suicide by shooting herself with a revolver because she hadlost her personal attractiveness. By her body this note was found : — "ln the room where I have had sleepless nights, full of waking hours through my loss of health, and now, greatest of misery, my hair, I end a life which has become- unendurable." The note concluded: — "What a sight 1 am when I see myself m the glass.— old and worn-looking." The evidence at the inquest went to .«how that the deceased (who was 35 years of age) had brooded over the loss of her good looks. To test the charity of his flock, the Rev. Mr Mecum, of Independence, lowa, recently disguised himself as a tramp and begged from door to door. At the first house, which was that of a mechanic, he was given three doughnuts. At the next houxe, the people of which lived m very comfortable circumstances, the lady turned a. dog upon him, but the animal recognised the minister, who went away unharmed. Continuing his tour, he was ordered by the next householder to go away under the pain of arrest. At another house he was directed to an institution for paupers. At the fifth he pleaded hard for food, but was turned away. At the sixth house he was given a hearty welcome— the people recognising him m spite of his disguise. Next day he wrote a sermon, making an eloquent plea on behalf of tramps. The storage battery is one of Edison's marvels. It is light, cheap and durable, and has 'been, submitted to all manner of tests, and nothing has seemed to injure its stability and usefulness. . In outward appearance the new battery is" not so very different from certain forms of the old. Without entering into details,; a single cell is a nickel -steel boXj lliin, long, sin broad, and 2in deep, open at the top. Inside of this are arranged thin frames of steel, half of them containing little packets of iron; oxide^ and half the nickel oxide; all immersed m a solution of potash. "A number of these cells, joined together, forms a battery of such power as may be desired. . All that is necessary for charging is to connect, the battery with an electric dynamo, or anywhere with an electric lighting wire, and it is soon filled. After charging it may be carried anywhere., and the; current used at will. If the potash solution dries up or spills, a little water poured m will put the cell m good working order again 5 there is no troublesome acid to bother with. Mr J. Herinikcr Heaton writes m the Magazine of Commerce (London) for December:— "The people of the United Kingdom annually spend £1,000,000 m cabling to America (including Canada), £412,000 m cabling to Australia, £366,000 m cabling to South Africa, £300,000 m cabling to India, and another £300,000 m cabling to China, Hongkong, and the East. John Bull, m brief, puts his hand into his capacious pocket to the tune of £6755 every day of the week, except Sundays, to cable to his customers and clients and cousins over seas. While looking at the total sum of £2,378,000 spent annually 111 cabling, remember that the totaj sum spent annually upon, our mail packet service to. Australia, America, India, and China is only £500,000. If our letters are none too cheaply carried, what sliall we say of this huge cost of our cablegrams? I do intend to make clear to the merchant and manufacturer, sending out every year their' goods to these distant parts, that a.,less costly cable communication will make him 3 a- less anxious as, well as a richer man." An application to take evidence m the case of Thomas Ahem and 06, Wellington, v. John, Colbert, laborer, Kaiti, was dealt with at the Magistrate's Court. Ihe claim was for £2 5s for a, sacrament servicei supplied defeudaut. / Mr Jones appeared for defendant, who stated m evidence that he did not know plaintiffs, but he remembered a traveller, whom he presumed was their agent, coming to his place m March, 1902. The traveller showed him a sample sacramental service which was enclosed m a leather case. He ordered one similar to the sample, and ib was to have been delivered m July at the latest. It was not delivered on the date contracted for, but some time later another person brought him a service which was m a wooden case and was not. soi good as the sample. His chief complaint was that the service was not left on the proper date, and that it was not so good as the sample. The "service was left with defendant notwithstanding a protest Defendant had not interfered with the goods, and had he known the name of the firm supplying tlieni he would have written at once declining to take them. Mr Barton, • S.M., allowed costs 75, .: and solicitor's fee for defendant if sucessful. The case will be heard' in Wellington shortly, and a number of Curistchureh people will- be interested m the result' as services are stated to have been ordered/ by others from the same firm.

Three million women have, already contributed übout £60,000 to the women's memorial to Queen Victoria. A Hawke's Bay visitor states tliat the pastures there are all burnt up owing to the dryness of the weather being experienced m that district. The Taylor-Carrington Company, a dranintic company who visits Uisborne shortly for ah eight nights' season, have decided to remain about eighteen months m New Zealand. The architect of the Hastings abattoirs, Mr C. A. Vautier, has presented the Mayor, Mr W. Y. Dennett, with a golden key some throe inches long and beautifully engraved, us a souvenir of his opening the abattoirs. From private information received, it appears that there is every possibility of a native rising m the Basuto district, on the border of the Orange River colony. Captain It. P. Chatfield (an old Auckland boy), who is acting as commissioner near the seat of the trouble, has had a squad of mounted police sent to help him m event of an actual rising. The chances of the ship Vildanden and her crew ever being heard of again are exceedingly remote. The vessel left Tampa, Florida., on March 2, bound for ! Adelaide, with a cargo of rock superphosphate. Shortly after leaving port she was sighted, but wince then her whereabouts have been a mystery. She is now 307 days out. The German Emperor has dominion over nearly 8,000,U00 men pledged to fighting for him, of whom half are trained to arms and to absolute obedience to their 52,000 odd officers. Of these, 600,000 men are (says a writer m Blackwood's Magazine) actually m uniform m fortress and barracks at the present moment, organised as a standing peace army of 625 battalions of infantry, 94 regiments of cavalry, 583 batteries of horse and field artillery, with 3498 guns, 38 regiments' of foot artillery, witli 26 different patterns of cannon and howitzers m their charge, and finally 60 battalions of scientific, artificer, and transport troops. Never m the history of Canterbury farming have tlie crops appeared so uniformly good as they do fclus season (writes the Leestou correspondent of the Christchurch Press). On heavy, light and medium quality lands the crops are heavy on tlie ground, well headed, and of a good healthy color. The head is specially noticeable. For years the heads have been short and uneven, but this year everywhere is to be seen long re-gu-llar heads of a uniform size. It is difficult to estimate the approximate yield, but unless there is very great damage done by the weather during harvest, wheat should average 50 bushels, barley 60 bushels, and oats 70 bushels per acre. There are many portions of the couulry where the average may be 10 bushels higher all round. Some good time-keeping records have been established by the trains on. some of the sections of the Government railways during the four-weekly period ending 3rd January. 'The Napier-Wel-lington train ran absolutely to time on every occasion, while the Wellington-Na-pier train was only late twice. The train . between Dunedin and Invercargill kept its exact time both ways, except on one occasion. The Christchurch-lJune-din train was only late, once, and from Dunedin to Christohiuch it was only, twice behind time— on one occasion to the malicious derailment of an engine, and on ajiotlier to an engine being overloaded. Very fair time has been kept on the Palmerston-New Plymouth line, but the. record there is not quite so good owing to the traffic having been exceedingly heavy. In his new book, Mr W. P. • Reeves thus describes the labor politicians :~ "Less burly than the first and with less of the trained gladiator than the second. The labor leaders are often short men with the nervous build of the skilled mechanic who reads and argues and frets at the bars of 'low birth and iron fortune.' The boisterous, thirsty demagogue, with brazen front and leather lungs, who bulks so largely m certain unflattering descriptions of colonial Parliament, belongs more often to the lower middle class than to the selected representatives of labor. The latter are distinguished by their trade unionist know-x-dge of matters affecting their class, an appetite for details, a capacity to act together, a certain not very 'exhilarating argumentative power and* by no mean share of tenacity. Shining or exceptional force they seldom show. Their reaJ strength lies m their loyalty to their class and m their power of cohesion." The Crown Prince of Siam m, his recent tour of America took warnino- by the experiences of the Russian Grand Duke. In the pages of a Chicago contemporary it is stated:— "Not a woman m Chicago can lay claim to the distinction of having met the Crown Prince of Siam. The future ruler of 16,000,000 people, who worship royal ty and the white elepliant, the little" round, brown man of potential multifarious matrimony, who has some scores of wives already chosen for him, and who will select some scores of others after he ascends the throne of his native land, would have nothing to do with womaidcind while m this town. He departed for the West last midnight, having spent his second day here, as he did the first, entirely m the company of those of the masculine gender. He accepted an invitation 1o luncheon at the home of James Deering, 67 Cedar street, only after he learned that the host was a bachelor, and was assured that the fair sex would not intrude." Mr Samuel Brown, of the Arbitration Court, writing to the New Zealand Times on the question of prison labor, suggests that prisoners should be employed m making roads and m tree-planting m euch of the cities of New Zealand. Mr Brown writes: — "There are numbers of places where roads might . be made and treeplanting done, which would immensely add to the beauty, attractiveness, health and comfort of the people, but which the municipalities, even if they were willing, would not be able to find the money for." Having suggested the formation of a winding carriage road round Mount Victoria, he goes on: "What would add to the attractiveness of Auckland would 1 be a drive along its many miles of foreshore. The same may be said of Dunedin. All the roads round Lyttelton have been made by prison labor. The tree-planting at Rotorua has" been a great success inevery way, and such, work would have a beneficial moral effect on the men." In the course of a private letter received from Mi- C. W. Darley (New South Wales Government Consulting Engineer m London), who recently visited America, he. says : "I visited some of the large steel works and rail mills m the United States. At one mill they were rolling out 2000 tons of 701 b rails per day, and they had orders m hand for over twelve months' work. The demand is so great for home consumption that it is quite impossible to place an order for delivery witliin twelve months. This is due to the good harvest, and profits of the railway companies, who, having plenty of revenue, spend a very large proportion m renewals and doubling lines, etc. While I was there I heard of an order being placed by one large rail way. company for 12,000 trucks of 50 tons carrying capacity, all ■ m one line. This must have been nearly a two and a-half million contract. English works and workshops are almost toys compared with many I saw there. And all American shops are managed by young men— you never see a man with grey hairs there m any works. I tliink they are all pensioned off. High pressure and hard work are the order* of- the. day." • • • In the Wellington Opera House on a recent evening a very lively interlude was provided. A woman wearing ai large .hat, and protected by male escort, took a seat m the stalls, and refused to remove her head covering when requested to do so by the patrons of the pit. There were immediate manifestations of discontent, but as the curtain rose on a scene of beauty distressed, there was necessity for the pittites to be temporarily quiet' lest they might miss a little of the pathos. When the first act finished the uproar resumed, until finally a fusilade of rolledup programmes fell around the hat of the recalcitrant damsel and her companion; Ihe latter s. patience burst? restraint at this -indignity. l 'He cleared the* pit bari rier in ,-a, bound,, divesting, himself of his coat m.. transit, and' bawling "Come on! come on!" One of those who hud protested against the hat promptly did come on, but ere the fistic contest 'liad barely started a policeman removed the fighting Romeo to a cooler arena... The cause of all his rumpus sat right- on, with her broad brjmmed hat flapping defiance at the pit, and gazing fixedly at the programme, on the front page of which appears the legend: "Every, hidy .who . removes her hat during a performance shows a graceful consideration for those occupying .seajs b^Jipid Jier \"i ; ; ; ; ;•• - w SoHsa's Baud probably leave California, for Sydney next October. There Jill be 60 players, /under the famous conductor, so that about £3000 will be spent vi fares alone. When Mr J. C. Williamson heard the band m Nem- York Sousa was getting £200 a day for two performances, and. the only reasqu for .the failure to come to terms was that Mr bousa at that' time had never madVa long journey with such a big organisation, and was nervous as to how it would work. When Mr Tallis (Mi- Williamson's representative) heard the band m San Francisco some 10 weeks ago, they were playing to crowded houses at the huge Alhambrii.'ia.t' ai tariff. pf'Bs, 6js ,-iud 4s. The annual salary of the band is quoted at £25..0Q0. : * The combination, which was formed m 1892, vf ill be appearing m London, again next month.: Mr Williamson stales that John Philip Sousa' s contract, will, include the three soloists now appearing with him. These are Miss Estelle (American; 'soprano), Miss Grace; Jenkins (violinist), and Mr Artb'ur Pryor ; (a : phenomenal trombone player). . Sydney, MeibournV, Adelaide, and Brisbane- will be visited; but. owing to the eJCDense, it is doubtful whether the tour will be extended to Jfew Zealand.

The Oamaru Borough Council lms passtd a resolution, by ti^te votes to three, m favor of abolishing the ward system. From the New York Tribune : — When the desk of a police captain who died suddenly was opened 34.CC0d0l m cash was fouml, together with gilt-edged securities worth soorts of thousands more. Yet tliis prudent financier m blue and brass had been tlbe commander of a preeinet for only 11 years. ''Thrift, thrift," said Hamlet to Horatio. Whait. thrifty men have been the police captains m, this town ! Their salaries are not enormous, but the rapidity with which they amass wealth makes even Wall street wonder. It is the intention of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Company; just formed, to establish a public produce depot m Wellington tor the tale therein of farm, orchard, and garden produce of all descriptions. It is intended m the first place to confine the operations of the company to acting as agents for the producers and consumers I m the buying and telling of fruit, vegetables, poultry, and farm products m wholesale quantities, but it is u!m> proposed to establish m a short time, works for the pulping, preserving and canning of fruit, and for t he preservation of dried fruit. The scheme is being actively taken up by the farmers m the Wellington district. Iv these days of associations, when men who have been associated m any particular sphere of service unite for the purpose of periodically celebraiting their early brotherhood, it is not surprising to hear that the old miners, the men who delved for gold m the early fifties, should desire to follow the lead. The Wanganui Chronicle understands that tliere is some talk locally of forming an. association of old Victorian and New Zealand miners, with, a view to holding an annual reunion. There are quite a number of old diggers m our midst, many of them holding high place m the estimation of their fellow-citizens, and no difficulty should be experienced m converting the projected association into a live faci. The most prominent feature of the carnival to be held at Rotorua m February are to> be two, days' aquatic sports, canons races for Maori men. and woman, canoe hurdle races, greasy pole, tub, obstacle, and swimming races, yacht ami boat races ; also hakas, poi dances, titc, m which the native element would be. the leading feat lire, as being of special interest and attraction to the visitors. Fundii are being raised towards the building of a war canoe and some smaller, canoes for racing purposes, which will be built by the Maoris who have taken the matter up very heartily. The Sanatorium grounds will be illuminated every night, arid promenade concerts and music by the bands will follow as a natural sequence, winding up with tr grand fancy dress ball at the end of the carnival. The Australian Review of Reviews, commenting on the recent Parliamentary elections m Mew Zealand, says: — We must go back, indeed, to the time of Pitt to Hnd an unbroken stretch of power such as that wliich Mr Seddon has enjoyed, and which the recent elections have' renewed. In New Zealand ■ittelf the journals speculate curiously as to whether "policy, personality,, or party" is" the secret of Mr Seddon' s long reign. . But the three P's put together hardly explain it. A wise policy, administered by a man of commanding personality, and sustained by a fine degree of party loyalty, would hardly have kept a Ministry m power so long if fortune had been adverse and New Zealand had been shaken by disaster. As it is,, the whole State, is prosperous m a very high degree, arid -prosperity is perhaps the fourth P which completes the explanation of the unbroken reign of tht Seddon Cabinet. A very striking feature of the New Zealand elections (adds the Review) is the scale of power of the vote cast for prohibition. The figures show broadly that one-half of the electors of New Zealand are anxious to try the great experiment of prohibition. That experiment is already being tried m patches. In half-a-dozen districts, that is. a tlireefifths majority declared m favor of prohibition, and this becomes locally effective at once. ...It. is clear that the extreme wing of the temperance, party— the' party for, prohibiiio'n., rather than reduction—has obtained, the lead. • The "no hcCTse" vote, has risen from 99,917 m 1896, to over ,140,000 m 1902. 'litree years more of such growth will put New Zea and m the palm «f the ."no-license p.uty ; and politics m New Zealand will then grow interesting.