Interprovincial

New Zealand Tablet, 23 August 1906, Page 24

Interprovincial

By the will of the kite Sir Walter Buller St Mary s Orphanage, Wellington, benefits to the extent of £50. The ' Oamaiu Mail ' uirderstands that tlic winter wheat is well Eoiward, and bids fair lo give a good return. The late rain was greatly appreciated for the assistance it gave to growing crops and the soaking the ground sustained. A Maori missionary, the Rev. Ilemi Papakura, speaking at Timaiu on rhursday ni Kh-t,K h-t, said he fcaiwl that it would be but a few years before the Maori language would fall into disuse here, as the Maori children at schools were, for the most pait, taught in English. Plans have been prepared for the building of a vault by the Government over Mr. Keddon's giave at a cost of ab-out £400. This cost will not include a column or memorial, which will probably be provided for piivately or by public subscription. Recently some doubt was expressed whether Messrs Devlin and Donovan, the delegates of the Irish National Parliamentary Patty to Australia, would come to New Zealand. Information has now been leceived t-hat t-hey will leach New Zealand via the Blull about the end of November. Lambing has commenced in some parts of Southland, but will not bie geneial for another two or three weeks yet. The general opinion seems to indicate (says the 'Southland Times') that given line weather Southland will ha\e another lecoid lambus this year. In a timber merchant's puce list received in Timatu lately from Sydney (says the 'Herald'), choice kauii timber is quoted at 15s per hundred; said to be about bs to 10s cheaper than it is sold by New Zealand meichants. A London price list also shows that Ihe builders who use kauii theie can buy it cheaper than the -builders of Timaru (an. t T! lc nn pui " chase of a Potion of the Waimarama Block of io 000 awes, situated on the lOast Coast soulh of L«ape Kidnapper, has been completed by the (iovei umeiil and negotiations for the acquirement of the interests of additional Native owneis ai c in progress The Crovcrnment iiitt-nds to icserve a consider a-fole poi tion of the block foi the use of the Maoris, and it will <l o all m its powei to encomage them to cultivate the land on up-to-date Euiopcan lines. v Vine cuttings received from Italy by Signor Piagato the GoveinmeiiL viticullunst, aie to be giaftedon to American stock at tlie viticultuial station at Aiataki, Ilawke's Bay, with the object of riistiibutinc thioughout the Colony vines suitable for pioducimr the i'-mnn tabl f, g \ ap ™' At lho }UCScnl tlme is jtJWK) worth of wine in the cellar at Waercngja, Wajnn.°fi, a i Tf °\! r i° r lhC Wh ° le haS been i^'ived fiotn ono him If the department approves, Signor Braeato pioposes to manufactuic unfermented wine next season. „ *\ r . cl "?- rk made b y a- witness in the Compensation Couit at Wellington to the effect that the extend ? j llc . ™ liways llad vast) y c » h anc«l the value of the land that was under consideration, evoked from the Lhi ef Justice the sUti-nu-nt that he could h.udlv understand how it was that eveivbody seemed to sei-k proximity to the tramways now-odays ; it almost seemed as if before many generations had passed the human race would have almost forgotten the use of Us legs and lost the power of locomotion. At the practical examinations in music held < v , August 17 by Mr. C Edwards, representative of Trinity College (writes our Wanganui correspondent) all th e pupils, twelve m number, presented by the convent hrn \ el v • Joseph) passed, two securing honors The following are the results :-Scnior division p ano-forle)-Mabel Mahoney, 75 ; Ida Anderson 72 ,c , me-diaste honors (singing)— Annie Sullivan, 88 • ni-tno orte— Liha Bams, 71. Junior honors— Sijigftic-Maccie King, SO; pianoforte-Maggie King, 7-1. Preparatory division-Viohn-Minnie Power 71 ; Ivy Oldbere : ?i\> piaiioforte-Ethna Swan, 87 ; Maggie O'Brien 80- Ivy Lll.ngham, 76; Ethel Bignell, 75. Besides the 'above Master Bernard Kitchen passed the pianoforte cxainina tion for junior honors.-Brother Victor has been staying! at the Marist Brothers during the past week mik ing a tour of inspection.-St. Mary's Church was crowl ded on Sunday evening, when Very Rev/ Father Clumpreached to a large conprcgal ion.-Next Sunday morning Rev. Father Clune will bless the monument erected to the memory of the late Dean Kirk

•uniiig mc best method of conUolliitg the potato Might. Lordship Bi?hn« rcport^tho arrival of his phvsic-a acul p, f tn n th ' lt , boUl tllC "^cllcctual ami tc7 it tS cvVii« lICl 1C &lUIk '" l - s al <-' well looked aftoLnnt.l..; Ct>lJe S e - Among the illustrations is a photogiaphic gioup of the late Mr. Seddon Mrs Swlrinn jStWh^^/ 1^' 011111 ° f the visit to the mst i tut ion sluutly before he stalled for New Zealand, which he was de.st.ne-d never again t o .see tie pZli of'M: 10 '?- ? atUt «>»'y both to taJS ways in such, districts in winter time It was -i snips in oidet to leap bcneiit hitor on The bad roads near Pip.nki had been caused by the caiting foi the ccn tral sec ion of the railway, and the sawmill liafli?" After this winter, howevei, the (io\einment wn i hi no use the Pipuiki roads', for ll, t " y ')C J^ obtain their supplies from the Taihapc line 'fL Minis ter said that at about the end of M«08 \\ elhngton a id Auckland would be linked toother by rail amUu tended to make the Uhourl. tiij overlap at' tie dale I'xc-SSTff 1 W r S ° IH ' lU>([ °" T^ay afternoon by his ami io the pom!. Among (he measures pi omised anhose dealing with the ei.eouia^ement of the a, plici 1 r n th t nT'J'^ niClhO<lS lo P'oduc^ve processes, 1 Tn o"du that our faimers may successfully meet the in ueasing competition of othei unmtne/; pioposals which ."f.tL"^ Sfff^ ire-Is I ,,'!^ £? a« X; f fll Rovcinuu-ut depailrm-nts and publ c botliJs" efloits to further increase the usefulness of the Touist De,.aitment; special ,u O vision for Ihe exte sion of hlatc .both business and medical aid communicali™ ■ the niakinß of piovi.ion for o ld-a K e pensS " s well as nhaf of a separate uiHlowmeHt fund lor t-ducabio. «U !>u. poses and hospitals, and charitable aid • tK s s.ficat.on of the Civ.l Service and making provis on lo"r the old ap of those olhceis who have seivcd the 'o ony faithfully and well, the cieation of an iinuiiv" schenu— accepting contnbutions fu,m all classes „^ on-enng m return the lar K exi amnnt.es the sute S allord to pay ; the su n ,,liiy,, IR uf our systm of l oca government; and the appointment of a ,vd X i of the to^^ialTor^ 0 CandCV ° tU "-^olcflhfillSi