The Bruce Herald. TOKOMAIRIRO, OCTOBER 6, 1899.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 310, 6 October 1899, Page 4

The Bruce Herald. TOKOMAIRIRO, OCTOBER 6, 1899.

Farming Notes and Leader held over owing to pressure on our space. The inspectors examination of the Fairfax school finished yesterday, and the school is now closed for a weeks holiday. A party of six, working a sluicing claim situate within 20 miles of Milton, has for sometime past been averaging a daily wage nf 8s 6d each. It 13 satisfactory to know that there is every indication of the men being able to go on at this rate for many years to come. It is expected in Dunedin that British capital to the exsent of about £500,000 will be invested in dredging schemes and goldmines new. Let us hope that when the fat 'amb of British capital is enticed into the glittering prospectus— golden fields it will not be immediately scratched to death by " wild cats.'' It is worthy of note that the examinations held this year in the public schools will be the last conducted on the pass or pec:-ntago system. In future annual promotion of pupils will be made by the headmasiers, the inspector at his visit holding a revisory examination to ensure that the teacher's v. ork has been carried out faithfully and with discretion. It is anticipated that the reform will ensure even more satisfactory progress educationally than heretoforeLater on we shall explain the alterations in the system.

Mr A. Campbell, of Milton, purchased in Dunedin at the walking show the roadster stallion, Height of Fashion. This horse which is said to be of a suitable lyps for this district, will be on view at the Tokonminro Farmers' Club Walking Shtiw. T.m> ' Ot^go Daily Times,' speaking of the TIo-sj Parade in Dunedin last week, says : "Height, of Fashion ia a oew horse here. He i-i five years of ag*\ and a dautfed c.sedit i<> Uie rinc." Height of Fashion :s by M-.rry Stanton, dam Minnie, by Duntroon ; he as bred by Mr J. Puff, of Outlaw. / .

The rainfall for the mouth of Septembe kindly supplied by Mr J. E. Brown", ia a* follows : — Milton, 1.60 ; Bilclulha, 1.36 ; Lawrence, 2.77. At the horse parade lately held in' Dun- : din the well-known performer on the race course, Black and Red, was purchased at £40 by a Gore resident, who, we hear, has since been offered an advance of £80 on his bargain. For several contracts under the Biuce County Council, not a single tender w&s submitted at Tuesday's meeting of that body. Considering that this is the slack season of the year in regard to labor, the above fact 6peaks well for the general prosperity of the district. Mr Gilruth, chief Governnent Veierinarian, in the course of an adiress at Masterton the other day, spoke strongly of the prevalence of hydatids in stock and human beiDgs, attributing 90 per cent of the cases to the dog tape-worm as ihe primary cause. He said the evil might be combated by taking care to boil all meat given to dogs, instead of as a common practice, feeding ihem on raw livers and other internal parts of the sheep. Owing to the dirty state of the watei on Sunday last, trout fishing down the Tokomdiriro river was i:ot vei y good. Messrs M'Gill, Forsyth and Farrell obtained five fish in all. Since then, for one and a-half day's fishing, Messrs M'Gill and Fan ell obtained 19 fish weighing 61' ibs, amongst which was a, six-pounder, five and a-half, and a five pounder, in openiug up three of the fish, siraugely enough, young flounders half an inch in length wurc discovered. We notice that during in.st season the South Au-.traliau rabbit export, trade amounted to 150,000 c.-.ses. Bunnies nuirt be more plentiful in New Z<?akui ; for Otago's ccutribu ion of rabbits to th.. Home market greatly txeeuls the übovL-nien-tionecl quantity. Notwithstanding the thinni'ig-or t process of last winter, <\ gentleman. wh'-'.t-e busine.-.s lakes him uil ever the Cou;>tv of Br c.-., informs us there aru already gie.i.l numb rs of yo nig labbiis-. aiiout ; i-.othat trappers need have lif.lv feai of ••cing ke::t fully occupied next si-^uo-: Interfciit in t.,e tr i-iitio.H.l i'eit, .-it. th<> Wbiie Halt Hotel, Ayiesbiiry, of a rt-ckies* younji gcit ; enu\n, in imr grandfather's tirii 1 a bringing a librae upstairs and jumping bun <.vor i.he <ljni.ig-i able i.-s revived by 'he tow ven'j.-able l.eio of iho occasion, .Mr .loan Leech Mailing, writing an account of the air'air. He says: — "Nothing was :e'nov..ii from the table. In fact, the dinner wa aeiualiy X"ing en. I jumped tlie l:oise barebackeii, without a bridle The horse per-iVrnu-d, before m-»re ti'an forty gent.'emen who were <:inii)g aft-.u* the stceple-cii/SL-. It niiiy please your readers tJ k-iow that I tun still livi;:;; and hc.a-iy, being in the 90th yir-r rif my ugo." If t-wners of hoists, which .fall owi\g to de'cc'tj on Bruce Couuiy ro '.d-lir.cs, entertain hopes of obtaining monoiary redreaa tliey may rest assured of securing the raking up of the history of past performances of their htt.eds. R:cently a Taratu settler sought to recover £5 from ihe couiicil owing to a horsj falli. g and skinni !g his Icoes by stepping into a hols on the read. Thn emjuiry ius ituted by the council's agent result. d ia a report that the mishup w.is due to * : careless riding "; and, moreover, that " before the accident the horse wus broken- kneed." In the colony few people think of t'.a without the words " Nelson, Moate r.nd Co." dashing across their mind, "Nelson Moate and Go.'' is almost a synonymous word for tea. The reason for this clgpc connection between a film's name and the ertiele they produce is easily explaine!. A tjreat nuinbtr of ten drfnkers prefer Xe'&nn, Moates' brand to others, ai d hence with every package bought the purchaser i.s p irlicalar to see the nnn'a name is att ched. i'ou of;en hear a customer go into a shop and ask for a poucd or a box of Nelson, Moate. Truly this is a rare testimony to the excellence of their teas. — ' N.Z, Times.; Mr Howard Randle, schoolmaster at Shag Point, committed suicide on Monday night by shooting himself with a revolver through the htad. The late Mr Howard Randle was trained as a pupil-teacher in London. He taught in private schools at Home, and on his arrival in the colony received an assistant mastership at the Duno;lin Boys' High School. In 1835 he was appointed by the Otago Education Board to the position of heul-ina ter of the Moen'.ki School. In December, 1888, he was promoted to the headmeistership of the Inch Vyiley School, aud in October, 1892, w.is appointed to the position of head-master of the Pukeiwitahi (Shag Point) School, which he occupied up to the time of his death. He was a married man, with a family.

Last Tuesday evening a lecture on South Africa under the auspices of the Salvation Arm}', was delivered in St. George's Hall, by Colonel EstiJ, who is at present in com' mand of the Salvation Army in New Zealand. Captain Kvans briefly introduced the speaker. Colonel Estill spent eight years oi his life in South Africa working in the interests of the Salvation Army and gave a very vivid description of his travels there The lecture was beautifully illustrated with limelight views of Cape Colony, Natal, Mt'shonslnnd, The Transvaal, Cape Town, Kimburley, Pietermaritzburg, Johannesburg, &c. Majuba Hill, of historic fame, was also depicted, the lecturer briefly describing the positions of the English and the Boel-s on that eventful day. Altogether the pictures were some of the best that have be-'ii shown in Milton. In concluding, Colouei Esiil intimated that anoth-.r address dealing with Mrs Booth's work in the slums of the groat cities, would be given at some J fin ure liiite. A hearty vote of thanks accorded to the sptaker brought the lecture to a close.

It is estimated that there are ten tons of gold in every 200 ft of lode in the Great Boulder mine, West Australia. The ore in sight in the mine is already sufficient to maintain the present output for thirteen years. On a grazing farm at Cunnamulla, New South Wales, the other day artesian water was struck, the flow of which was estimated afc 4,000,000 gallons a day, sufficient to water about 100,000 acres of country, which has hitherto been barren of water though plentifully supplied with s>rass. A bicycle road race from Milton to Waihola and back will tike place tomorrow. Mr Roberts has kindly donated £2, and Mr Jas. Eastes has presented a trophy valued at £1 for competition. A3 other donations wiil follow, and as there is every indication of a large number of entries being received, no doubt an interesting race will result Of late years traction engines for haulage purposes, have been very much employed in N.Z , and especially in Canterbury. Recently, however, the idea seems to have caught on in Tokomairiro, Mr BL Hamilton a well kuown mill owner at present having a contract in hand of carting grain from Mr * D. Thompson's, North Branch to the Milton railway station. Fire broke out in the 'Daily Times' office a tew minutes after work was commenced on Monday night, at 8 o'clock. Io commenced among rolls of yupe: 1 in the cellar and vvliea first observed these rolls were biuzing on top, within a foot of the ceiling. Afiei- two homY work the i nro brigade were; able to get at the seat of | the lire. The lower floor had hundreds of reels of paper in store and much of thia has b< en ruiiio.i by lire, smoke and water. The machine' yis uninju: .:d. The building and stock aie injured for £16,000, nearly all the olilcea uoing business in Duuedin being in tore ito j. The lesd is estimated at about; xITGO. The Rev. F. H. tipjuccr, representing the British aud Foreign Bible Society, gave an address i;i the Presbyterian Hall, Milton, on Wednesday eveni g. Notwithstanding ilie biisUjrous w-iaiher thcru was a fair attendance, and all present seemed to tuojouylily enjoy the lecture, which was i:iu:-t; aiu-i thrmuh-.ut wilh lantern slides. The Rev. Mr (i. Milier (chairman), Ucv. J. (J. aid Rev. G. Bouusell were piustrul. These gen: k man are forming ii eoininitu c to collect funds in a systematic way, und a.ru Oig.misiug a branch of the seemly iv this Uiuuict. A shooting match between the Bruce ivilk-s and A. ui.tl T. Bart's corps, Dunedin, wiil be lired ell ou Dunn's range, on Wednesday llih, Labor D.«,y. The teams will conns' o: ten men aside. The following will re[j' esfiii' the local corps. Lieutenants Johi'stoi.e a :rl M'Ciymont, Sergt. Boyle, Corp. Taylor, and \olunteers Murray, Johnstone, Newbigging, M'Murtrie, Nichol aud Capat-ick. Emergencies, Peattie and Cannon. Shooting v, ill commence at 11 o'clock sharp. Under date August 25 Mr Cameron, the Government produce inspector, Wellington, writes saving he thinks he may safely report that the prospects of the dairy produce tiaele are encouraging. Prices for both butter and ehee?e are now higher than they have been at this time of the year durii-g the j ast 10 years, and show especially enormous increases on those of last August. The long continuance ot hot, dry weather experienced both in England and ■■11 the, continent has had the effect of retarding the output of butter, while the mak-. of cheese in England is very greatly decreased. The result is that the price of butter is steadily advancing, and most probably by the time colonial butter commences to arrive o;i the market prices will be higli and firmly established. Every tourist to the Holy Land will welcome the formation of a special committee at Jerusalem which is to provide for the clear.siug, both inside aud out, of the Jewish cjuar-er of the holy City. It is said thab the visit ot the German Emperor paved the way for this much-needed whitewashing* There arc, it is interesting to note, about 14,000 Jews of three different sects in Jerusalem at the present time. Loss of independence, persecution, and cxilo have not diminished one whit the passionate love of the Jew for Jerusalem, and he never forsakes the cheris-hed hope that ono day the Turk may be deposed and a tenure of Jewish independence — it is over 2000 ye.irs since that independence ceased — established. But for the Kaiser's call last year the chronicles of the prehistoric city have been of late years almost barren aud devoid of incident. Clean streets should vastly improve matters.

Some of Mr Thomson's 'constituents in Balclutha are thirsting for berlud — in South Africa. Ono of them wired to Mr Thom-^ son thusly : Great number your supporters thoroughly disgusted vote given Transvaal crisis ; same unreasonable." The member for Clutha poured the cold water of common i sense on his fiery constituents by replying : " As to reasons for voting against sending contingent to the Transvaal, my chief i reason is that England does not require any assistance. Were the safety of the Empir^. endangered no one would more willingly 1 have supported a proposal of the kind, but j as the war is one of minor importance, and ' one which the Mother Country alone can easily deal with, I do not feel justified in I supporting a proposal which muse result in i the death and mutilation ot many fellowi colonists, and in expenditure of more money than we can well afford — probably £100,000. One member who voted as I did has received telegrams approving his action." The greatest bell in the world is an edific. before the great, temple of Buddha, at Tokio. It weighs 1,700,000ib5, and is four times greater than the great, boll of Moscow, whose circumference at the rim is i»early 68ft, and whoae height is 21ft,.

At the weekly parade of the Bruce Rifles, held on Wednesday evening, 42 men, all told, turned out. Sergeant- Mai or Towler was in attendance. Two new member* were proposed. The project of erecting freezing works at Patea is now definitely settled (says the •Yeoman') There will be slaughtering accommodation for 1500 sheep, 100 bullocks, and 100 pigs daily, with ample freezing and cooling chambers to deal with the same amount of Btock. Storage for 25,000 carcases of mutton i« provided for. . To-morrow the Milton Cricket Club opens the season with a match Married v. Single. The names of th 9 players appear in auooher pare of this isaue. The admission to the ground is by Bilver coin, and the whole of the takings are to be applied in aid of the fund now being raised for the widow and orphans ot the late James Fahey. It is to be hoped that the public will show their sympathy by rolliug up in large foi'ce. The French steamer Jeanette, which arrived at Noumea recently from the Solomon group and the New Hebrides, brought a remarkable story of cannibalism. The victim was a Kanaka, who acted as orderly to the Immigration Department at Noumea, and embarked on the outward trip of the Jeonette, which was engaged in the labor trade. About six months previously he married a native woman of Aoba, in the New Hebrides, and ou passing that island he conceived the idea of spending his honeymoon amongst his wife's tribe. He, however, was promptly overpowered, killed, torn in pieces, roasted, aud eaten. In fact, according to an account of the tragedy, he was treated just as a sheep might have been.