DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2294, 12 September 1908, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

{Press Association.]

AUCKLAND, Sept, lilt lias scvcp.il times _ been said at the fruit brokers' meeting that the Neiv Zealand trade w,rtn Fiji has been slippingaway. Mr Toormm stated toSay that he had seen the Auckland boats arrive at Fiji with a fe« tons of cargo and the rest coal- li witehin" the arrival of the ajdnej boat he S had noticed that it arrived with a deck cargo of general merchandise. al id produce. He had seen gun ilar evidences at both Samoa and Tonga that Sydney, trade was Mregly on the increase, whilst New Zealand s was getting smaller and smaller each year,

NAPIER, Sept. 11

A resolution was pissed at a public meeting in the Trades Hall oat Monday in reference to the retention of Crown lands between Napier and Awatoto for the purposes of woikmen’s homes. The Land Boaid today decided that the lands which were about to be. offered for public sale should be withdrawn from the market

WELLINGTON, fiept. 11. , The following is Captain Edwin s weather forecast to 3 p.m. to-morrow: Moderate to strong westerly winds are probable everywhere, and iair weaker g enerally. EDiN „ The Taleri and Peninsula Milk Supplv Company has decided to reduce the price of butter by 2d per lb. from Monday The Mataura Dairy Company sold its season’s cheese output to Messrs A. S. Paterson .and Go.. Dunce n, • G l-16d per lb—a record for this di. trict

IN-VEIiCAHOIL:L, Sept. HT ,,c Ctamto of £3*£ ttSdAA’SSL m solved that the secretary d aw up » strong protest against the through in the form proposed at prt sent, and that telegrams be sent to the Minister for Agriculture and the Southland members to this effect. It was urged that the Bill wus detrimental to the forming interests, and pressed most heavily on innocent par lies, via.. the merchants who pw"cliased infected produce m perfect good faith from clean sample,?.

“Lawrence-Ketmedy-Gillies <>t a label-sa t ; ( j, aV( , used, three ’’ milking 123 « ‘L.K.G. _ pMCnine- > of tu . o mem and reqv..nng the h J through and myself. Inc nci« j. inachi„ .lout tlirec tauf j X,rt ines—hy hand I shouia fc —five men besido myscl *' at ia the drudgery which milking hand, and I do not think •would care to go hack to haml-nnllnng •after using the machines. , you don't require a machine just now, write for.' particulars to J- B. MacEwan and Co., Ltd,, £<?l® agents, tort Street, Auckland,' x