GENERAL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2300, 19 September 1908, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

The West Australian elections have resulted in the return of the Ministerial party. ].n 1 COG absence from church on Sunday in Kngland was punished by a tine of Is. . , For penknives the nteel is tempered at -f7odt'g. lor table knives at odOdesr, far saws at 500 deg. Mr It. 11. Ihlkins, a well-known Queenslander , lias made a comparison with the mutton export of New Zealand and Queensland. In effect, lit' has tuttlllow is it that Queensland, from a period beginning twenty years ago, with 13 million elieep, has ehown so paltry an export trade in mutton by comparison with New Zealand, beginning 'with 15 million sheep. - ' (These figures quoted by Mr b’.dkins ire compiled from oflieial statistics.) Hy 1397 the numbers of sheep were I*7*l and nearly 191 millions respectively. lint in the interval Queensland had exported a over a million sheep all told, while New Zeaj,rd bad exported 19.} millions. Ten nears, later still (1907) Quensl uul had 17 niiTion sheep ami New Zealand 19,} millions. And during the ten rear ended 1907. Queensland had exported fewer than a million sheep. ,vhile New Zealand sheep exported totalled over 39} millions'!