NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12738, 9 March 1910, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Nelson shareholders will be pleased to learn that during the month of February the Talisman faoldmining Company crushed and treated 3630 tons of quartz for a yield of bullion worth £19,192. Mr Foster Fraser, the writer, has been giving English people his impressions of' Australia,' and in a fine, large, off-hand way, he "summarises" Adelaide for culture, Melbourne for business, and Sydney for pleasure. Had he less liking for casual, firsthand impressions, and more for real study, he would have found culture in Melbourne and Sydney equal to that of Adelaide, business in Sydney conducted as keenly as in Melbourne, and just as great a love for it in Adelaide and Melbourne as in Sydney. He says Australians have little genuine desire for immigrants. Here again (says the "Wanganui Herald") he does not look below the surface. Australians don't want an influx of artisans to the towns to make their already overcrowded labour market worse. Ihoy would like immigrants to settle the country lands, but, as in New Zealand, the land is in the hands of a few, and they can't find farms even for Australians who want them. With laud monopoly abolished, the Australians would welcome immigrants, but they don't see the force of encouraging them when they have no land to give them. Mr Justice Williams last Thursday completed jiis thirty-fifth yeaT of judicial service. The "Otago Daily Times," commenting on the fact, says —"The record which is involved in this circumstance is of an altogether exceptional occurrence. Writing subject to correction, wo believe there is not another judge in the British Empire of whom it can be said that ne has had a judicial career equal in duration to that of the distinguished lawyer and ripe scholar who is the doyen of the Bench in New Zealand. Messrs. Kirkpatrick and Co., advertise that they are ash buyers ot mushrooms. . Mr. Alfred Gould announces the following auction sales : Furniture and effects of Mrs. Chamberlain, Bridge street to-morrow at. 2.30 p.m. ; furniture and effects of Mrs Ben Lewis, on Wednesday, April 6th at 1 p.m. Messrs. Bisley Bros, arid Co., will ;ell at Richmond to-day, 1500 sueey . at Thorpe on T"-'"-sfl* v . W^O sneep, pigs cattle and rams; at Kohatu on Friday morning at eleven o'clock 4,500 sheep with special entry of 600 merino ewes. 400 cross-bred ewes, 1250 lambs ; At Tapawera on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock 3000 sheep, including Messrs Drummond Bros, entry of 1000 crossbred owes. Ttw balance, 2000 sheep, consists of store and fat ewes, wethers and lambs; it Tapawera on the same day the firm will sell on account of Mr. Thos. Brooks, his property at Tadmor. The Temperature.— At tbne o'clock this morning the thermometer outside this office registered 61 degrees If you require the highest grade butter made on the latest and most approved principles, ask for "Yj°" tory," which is sweet and palatab'e, and take no other.* Ladies who are interested in seeing the very newest in stylish wearing apparel for the coming autumn and winter seacens are invited- to call in at Mrs Anstice's and inspect the whole of her magnificent showing. These goods direct from the world's fashion centres, have just been opened up, and represent everything that's correct, reliable and becoming. You're warmly invited to call in scon and look round.* "A good name Is better than great riches," and Lock, the Universal Provider, has a good name for giving first class value and for fair and 6quare dealing. We append a portionof a poem sent to him: — Such love as his, what tongue can fitly tell! f - Save he whose heart has owned its magic spell; With heaving breast, Jut flope as firm as rock, He breathed that name, th' inspiring name of "Lock." / Straightway to Lock's, with little. cash, 'tis true, They wend their way, he looking rather blue. But wonders never cease (though. quality of the best), All was so wondrous cheap, their doubts were soothed to rest. They're married now, and prattlers round them throng, As happy in their home, as summer day is long; Yet oft in loving circle they tell that little flock, How grateful still they feel to good old William Look, The Complete Furnisher.