DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 35, 24 January 1912, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, January 22. The report from the south that the Canterbury Industrial Association intends to promulgate a big Dominion industrial exhibition in Christchurch next year has raised the question of a possible clash with the industrial exhibition which it has been suggested should be held in Auckland. The question was discussed at a meeting of the Auckland business men six months ago, and was then deferred for further consideration early in the present year. The president of the Chamber of Commerce (Mr Leo Myers) stated today that it was intended to hold a meeting during the next ten days, at which members of the Chamber of Commerce and Provincial Industrial Association would discuss what course of action should be taken. Auckland certainly had a prior claim, provided it was decided to go on with the exhibition. Mr Myers added that he was satisfied that so far as Christchurch was concerned there would be an amicable arrangement and no clashing between the interests of the two cities. The four-dial clock in the tower of the Town Hall, which was presented by Mr Arthur M. Myers, M.P. (an ex-Mayor), was set in operation at noon to-day by the Mayor (Mr C. J. Parr), in the presence of* several citizens. The Mayor subsequently unvoiled a handsome tablet erected for the purpose of commemorating the gift of Mr Myers. The clock is described as being of admirable workmanship and finish. The makers (Messrs Gillett aifd Johnston) have just installed one of, a similar type at Toronto. “The works,” added Mr Bartlett, to whom was entrusted the installing of the new clock, “are really first-class and calculated to last for generations owing to the high quality of the materials used,' and tlie 'excellence of the manufacture.” Auckland, 1 January 22.

At a special meeting of the Grey Lynn Borough Council to-night resolutions were carried strongly protesting against the Government’s proposal to erect a new auxiliary mental hospital at Point Chevalier, adjoining Grey Lynn boundary, and urging that it should bo placed on the Asylum property of 10,006 acres in the King Country near Te Awamutu. The Waihi Grand Junction Company has cabled to London that the main crosscut, north of the shaft in No. 6 level, cut the reef at about 125 feet in the Martha lode. A width of 'l2O inches gave a value of ds 6d, the next 120 inches 13s, then 150 inches 225. The face continues in ore. A Waihi telegram of Friday last gave the following report: “The north .crosscut is still being advanced in quartz at No. 6 level in the Grand Junction mine, and indications now point to its being the hanging wall section of the Martha reef. The quartz carries more or less value, but so far not of payable character. At the corresponding point on No. 5 level the Martha reef showed a total width of about 60 feet, part of which was of milling grade. Should it maintain its width going down the crosscut at No. 6 level, it will continue in quartz for some distance before t»;e fontwall country is exposed, ara it is thus possible that improve?, values may be met with on the foo-.wall portion of the lodr