Interprovincial

New Zealand Tablet, 24 July 1913, Page 36

Interprovincial

As showing the mildness of the season, a resident of Bideford informed a Wairarapa Times reporter that peach trees in that district were in full bloom. Mr Francois Narbey, one of the earliest settlers of Banks Peninsula, died on Sunday. Mr Narbey came from France in 1849, and was 84 years of age. The oil industry in Taranaki is very active just now The derrick and appliances at the Phoenix bore, m the v.omity of the refinery, are completed, and drilling operations are to be prosecuted forthwith. _ The Chnstchurdi Press states that the owners of various auctioneering yards where poultry sales are conducted on Saturdays consider that the Saturday early closing has done them a lot of good. They find that nearly double the number of buyers attend the sales, and the added competition has had a decidedly hardening euect upon the market. 'Saturday halfholiday is all right,' remarked the auctioneer, 'we find it suits us down to the ground, and livens up business wonderfully. r

Mr. C. S. Brangm, the Agricultural Department's inspector stationed at Ashburton, has just returned from a visit to the back country (says the Lyttelton Times) .Mr. Brangin states that the back country is wonderfully free from snow for this time of the year Ihe Cameron and Arrowsmith glaciers are but lightly covered, feed is fairly plentiful, and all classes of stock are doing well. - THIS WEEK'S ISSUE The Grey by-election—disgraceful tactics. Page 33 t Dean Fitchett's ' reply ' and Bishop's deary's rejoinder— the Bible lessons merely 'literature'? Pages 23, 22. Letters to tho Editor. Page 45. . ' , Th Federation and Politics— rules laid down by the Hoiy See., Page 21. An Appeal from. Our Lady of the Sacred Heartby a grateful client. Page 28. Holland's centenary and Catholic ogress—a garden spot of Holy Church. Page 17.