New Zealand.

Southland Times, Issue 15171, 15 February 1902, Page 2

New Zealand.

[Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Feb. 14. Mr Bollard, M.H.R., in opening the Avondale Show to-day announced that it was his intention to endeavour to secure legislation providing for the establishment and subsidising of fruit and jam faotories in order to deal with the surplus of fruit on the market and provide for an export trade. He advocated combined action of members for interested districts in the direction indicated, also the union of farmers and fruit growers. The Trades and Labour Council has resolved to forward the following subjects for the ordor paper at the annual conference : — Food trusts bill, ooal and land nationalisation, technical and higher education, preferential tariff, amendment of Conciliation and Arbitration Acts, and to provide for a daily Hansard. Sir Joseph Ward to-day opened the new post office at Onehunga, and was subsequently entertained at a banquet. WELLINGTON, Feb. 14. Papers have been filed in the Supreme Court for a libel case which will raise the point of whether a newspaper has a right to publish continuously a record of disqualifications imposed on individuals by racing clubs. The Wellington committee in connection with the presentation of a parse of sovereigns to the Premier in recognition of his patriotic services, is desirous that banquets to Mr Seddon should be discouraged and that the presentation should be made at Christchurch, where it was first mooted. The Gazette notifies that deer shooting in Otago and Waitaki will be opened for fallow bucks, from 15th March to 30th April for red deer Btags from Ist April to 31st May. HAMILTON, Feb. 14. Sir J. O. Ward arrived here at 7 p.m. and immedianely proceeded to open a J new post office, the erection of which, he said, waa justified by the progress of the district, the P. and T. business done in Hamilton having doubled within the last three years. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 30. It is understood that the Government has arranged to purchase 8000 acres of Parnassus estate in the neighbourhood of Cheviot. DUNEDIN, Feb. 14. At the Arbitration Court Bitting here next month the following cases have been set down for hearing ;— Hosiery workers, tramway employes, hairdressers, bricklayers, sawmill and timber hands, seamen's, furniture workers', coal miners', tailors' and drapers' assistants. James McLaren, committed for sentence for theft from a dwelling, was sentenced by Judge- Williams to two years' imprisonment, to take effect from the completion of a sentence of three months' he is now undergoing.