Our Tapanui correspondent wires :- " The police made a raid this morning on all the old hotels in the township, but did not find any liquor in any of them." At to-day's meetiDg of the Benevolent Trustees accounts amounting to £5lO IG3 7d were passed for payment. The outdoor relief book for July showed that 491 persons had been assisted—2o4 men, 37S women, and 933 children—at a weekly cose of £10" 10s GJ. For the corresponding month of last year the numbers were 449 cases, repre senting 162 men, 353 women, and 907 chil dren, at a cost of £135 8s 6d per week. About fifty-five relief cases were dealt with. There was an exhibition at Messrs D. Pvoid and Co.'s store yesterday of a seleotion of evaporated apricots, peaches,-and prunes which had been sent by Mr Peunell, of Ash grove Farm Nursery, Roxburgh, to Mr J. L. Gillies. This fruit, part of which Mr Gillies had had cooked, was prepared by Mr Boucher, the Government expert, on his last trip to the Teviot, and showed to great ad vantage both the result of the evaporating process and also how well the Otago Central fruit turn 3 out when it is prepared in this manner for the market.
