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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9640, 15 January 1903, Page 4

The initial part of the experiment of acclimatising plovers m New Zealand has luudly been a success, lor out of 175 shipped from Eiighuid by the Coriathic for the Government, there are only 39 left. The Rongilikei Co-operative Daily Company is the natural barometer of the "boom" which is taking place m dairying m the district around Bulls. The receipts of milk at the factory during': the first two months, of the season ar-e actually greater than for the whole of last year. During October and November over £1300 was paid away m milk cheques. It is long since the London theatres and .restaurants have experienced so profitable a season as the present, writes a correspondent. The West End is ablaze with light jughtly, all the amusemejut places are crowded, and tlieatre supper parties keep the fashionable hotels and restaurants busy until long after midnight. Aii Otago representative footballer, at present iv England, writes that he is satisfied, after witnessing several big games hi England, that the game has not gone back m Otago. He saw nothing new at Home. Although the teams played a fair game, with occasional flashes* of brilliancy, the backs do not display the amount of trickiness he expected. The London County Council, which is tlte chief authority for street widening, has done what it can, to remedy the congestion. In 11 years street improvements have cost" the Council £6,000,000, over and above- all returns from the sale of property acquired. The new ytraiid-Hol-born thoroughfare alone cost £4,862,000, but of this amount, it is said, over £4,000,000 will be recovered. The extension of the Thames Embankment will cost another million and a-third,- about half of which will be recouped by the sale, of property. Tlie Council consider, however, that they have reached their limit, and tliat further schemes for improvijjjg the traffio of London should be undertaken by tlie Government.