A NEW ZEALAND MIRACLE.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 9985, 15 March 1898, Page 2

A NEW ZEALAND MIRACLE.

GREAT EXCITEMENT IN THE FEATHERSON DISTRICT.

When a girl, in the best period of her life, has suffered for four years from excessive heart palpitation, swollen legs, giddiness, cramps, chronic insomnia, and other distressing ailments, and wheu she has tried numerous medicines and many doctors without the -slightest benefit to herself, she naturally feels grateful when she discovers a remedy that almost miraculously, as it seems, succeeds where all others have failed, and in a short space of time relieves her completely from her troubles and places her in the front rank of happy and healthy girls. This has precisely been the case of Miss Petrea Peterson, of Featherson, North Island, New Zealand. In a communication to the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., she explains her sufferings at length. "lam 19 years of age," she says, "and ever since I was 15 I have been suffering more or less." Palpitation of the heart was her principal trouble, she states, and this was induced by an-etnia, or poorness of the blood. " When, for instance," she continues, " I ran up stairs my heart nsed to thump most frightfully against my sides, and so bad was it that on these occasions I was unable to talk for some time afterwards. This was naturally a source of considerable anxiety to my family and friends. Night after night I tossed, weary and worn out, on my bed, trying vainly to sleep. At times, too, I had fearful attacks of cramp in my legs, and so great was the agony that frequently it caused mc to scream out in very desperation, to the despair of those around. I was always in a weak, low state, and, of course, never felt fit for my work. My legs, too, would at times swell up to a considerable extent, and this naturally occasioned myself and my mother great suspense. Thus, as I grew older I became worse and worse, being subject also to periods of giddiness which many a time caused mc to almost fall down. I tried plenty of medicines and I had several doctors, one after the other, but they gave mc no relief. I also consulted three doctors regarding an affliction of the eye from which I suffered. Having almost given up my case as hopeless, I one day noticed an advertisement for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People in the Evening Post. Gathering hope from this, in June, 1897, I commenced taking your pills strictly according to directions. After the third dose, to my surprise, I found a change for the better. I continued with them until I, bit by bit, improved so much that four months ago I left them off altogether. I have taken a total of nine boxes, and am now in every way in the most perfection of condition. Insomnia, weakness, giddiness, heart palpitation, cramps, and swellings in the legs have all disappeared, and the affection in my eye has likewise ceased. As there has been no recurrence of these ailments at all daring the past four months, it is evident that my cure is a permanent one. Your pills have absolutely cured mc, and I will always keep some of them by mc. I feel fit for my work and for anything. My mother thinks the world of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and she has tried several boxes herself. lam awfully thankful to them, and I have recommended them to all my friends. Four of them speak exactly as I do of the pills, and cannot praise them too highly. I shall always continue to recommend them. lam well known here, and numbers of people have been watching my'case with interest. You may make whatever use yon like of this testimonial."

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Dr. William-' Pink Pills for Pale People

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EDITORIAL FARM NOTES.

" Weekly Press and Referee,

MAIKTAINIXG THE STANDARD OF FLOCES,

The Colonial sheep breeders have been ] relying very much upon themselves of late years with regard to the maintenance of the standard of their flocks, or trusting merely to their neighbours for a change of blood. Thus for several years supplies of longwoolled rams have been drawn by Australia from New Zealand, and Tasmania annually supplies the sister colonies with stud merinos and Downs. A few breeders have gone further afield and imported fresh blood from the United Kingdom, and many of the flock-masters who visited the Old Country for the Jubilee proceedings last year brought something good back with them. Thero have been several attempts made in New South Wales recently, to work up an agitation in favour of-* more extensive importation of stud stock from the United Kingdom, but there appears to be a backwardness to emulate the princely doings of the Argentine estancieros in that direction. When taking into consideration, however, the present colonial flocks, and the quality and character of the wool, as well as meat they produce, there is perhaps not the same necessity for the introduction of new and improved blood, yet much good can now and then be done by obtaining new sires of well established breeds. The Pastoralists' Review states a new strain of blood is to be imported into New South Wales. Mr H. Haege, of Sydney, has been instructed by several leading breeders to import for thero a few true Silesian sheep of the old type, i.e., finer, shorter, and denser in covering than even the well-known Gadegasts ; in fact, the same sheep as were imported in large numbers in or about the fifties, when' they laid the foundation of many of the best known Mudgee and Tasmanian studs. The enterprising breeders in question, among whom are such names as the Hon. G. H. Cox, M.L.C, Burrundulla* Mr G. Morris Simpson, Stonehenge and Bon Accord ; and Mr A. H. Wright, Tombong; have been induced to go in for such fine and shortwoolled sheep through the strong demand and very high prices for finest, shortest clothing wool, which have been ruling for several years past, and show promise of continuing. The sheep willbecarefully picked out by Mr Haege's German correspondent, a, gentleman who has selected many hundreds of such sheep for Australia more than forty years ago. They will be chosen from the flocks of the very few Prussian or Austrian noblemen left who have had the courage and tenacity to stick to the clothing character of the wool of their sheep—all descendants from the Spanish sheep brought to Saxony by the Elector—while all the world went for length. "The sheep are smaller and perhaps les9 shapely than our best (adds the Review), but the wool is the loveliest clothing wool we ever saw, and simply perfection as to fineness, soundness, density, and proper length for clothing. Its value is stated to be from 4s 3d to 6s 9d per lb in the • clean scoured' state. Of such wool, no sheep can cut a heavy fleece ; nor is it required. The average weight of the fleece in the grease of these Silesian rams is given at from 91b to 16£lb, and that of the ewes at from s_lb to lllb, and it may be accepted as feirly correct that such greasy wool loses, after being • clean scoured,' from 70 to 75%." A BIG THING" IN WHEAT.

Various conflicting accounts have been received from time to time concerning the Argentine wheat crop, but the news "by £he;» late mail shows that the Republic will have a very large surplus to ship. The Buenos Ayres correspondent of the Australasian Pastoralists' Review, a well-informed writer, in his monthly letter, dated December 4th, says :—" We are going to do a big thing in wheat this year. From all the principal agricultural centres in the provinces of Santa F<s, Cordoba and Buenos Ayres, we hear most flattering accounts, the only districts that seem to have really suffered are some unimportant colonies west of the provinces of Cordoba and Buenos Ayres. But it has been a very anxious time. We have passed through a very bad drought and a tremendously cold winter, so much so that on several occasions the crops were reported lost, when a slight shower, perhaps of half-an-hour's duration, sufficed to keep it actually alive, until at the commencement ' of November we had a general rain over nearly tlie whole of the Republic. This put life into the stunted wheat, for it "had plenty ot root, but no stalk to speak of, but the grain is reported fatter and heavier than anything we have so far seen; and it should be, since so little has been taken off the land for the last two years. The amount which we shall be able to is put down at between 1,300,000. and 1,500,000 tons. Harvesting is going on briskly in Santa FeY Cordoba, and Entrerios. Linseed has been considerably damaged by late frosts, but that which is about to be harvested is reported to be of splendid quality. So far there is no price quoted for wheat, as only very small sales have been effected. Colonists are holding on to what they have in hopes of high prices, but next month immense quantities will be shipped." ANIMAL FOOD IMPOSTS INTO GBEAT BEITAIN. The imports of animal food into Great Britain have gone on increasing rapidly since 1893, and the statistics for 1897, compiled by the Live Stock Journal, show how much the Old Country is dependent upon outside sources for food supplies. The number of cattle imported last year was 618,336, an increase in number of 55,783, and in value of £1,156,181 over 1896. The imports of cattle only once exceeded the number for 1897, namely, in 1890, when 624,593 were received. The United States sent 416,299, against 393,119 in 1896; Canada 126,495, against 101,591; and Argentina 73,867 against 65,699.. Sheep fell off in 1896 from the extraordinary number for recent years of 1,065,470 supplied in 1895, and last year there was a further decrease of 158,088, the number received •being 611,504, valued at £919,096. From [ Argentina—now by far the chief source of Great Britain's supply of foreign sheep - the ; numbers rose from 339,381 in 1896 to 345,217

in 1897 ; but there was a "fall from 226,760 to 186,755 in the supply from the United States, and from 83,767 to 63,761 in the contribution of Canada. It ia, however, in dead meats that the most marked increase in imports is shown, the quantity being 15,736,302 cwt, valued at £28,099,209, an increase of 1,487,482cwt in weight and £2,641,661 in value over 1896. The chief increases were fresh beef, 350,687cwt; mutton, 298,118cwt; bacon, 455,389cw5; hams, 266,463cwt; and rabbits, 105,585cwc. Tlie United States sent over two-thirds of the fresli beef, half the bacon, over seveucighths of the hams and nearly two-thirds- of the salt pork. Of the 3,193,276cwt of mutton imported, valued at £4,827,868, nearly twothirds came from New Zealand and Australia ; Argentina having sent 908,623cwt of the rest, and Holland 266,842cwt. The quantities of fresh beef, mutton, fresh pork, bacon, hams, unenumerated meat, and rabbits imported last year were the greatest ever received in twelve months. Turning to dairy products, lard, eggs, and poultry and game, an increase is found all along the line, the imports of butter, margarine, cheese, and condensed milk being valued at £25,687,190, an increase of £1,773,707 over the previous year. Denmark, of course, takes the lead with butter, •ver two-fifths of the total being credited to that country, 'though part of ths quantity was really Swedish butter sent through a Danish port. France stands second, with 448,128 cwt, or nearly 20,000 cwt less than the quantity for 1896. Denmark, Holland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada all increased their supplies considerably, and the United States made an advance also, but by less than 10,000 cwt. Holland supplied 872,595 cwt of the margarine received. Canada now stands far ahead of all other countries as a source of Great Britain's foreign cheese supply, having sent last year 1,526,664cwt, or considerably more than half the total, while the United States contributed 631,616cwt, and Holland was third with 297,559cwt. The United btates supplied nearly all the lard. Russia, Germany, France, Belgium, and Denmark, in the order given, were the chief shippers of eggs; while France stood first for poultry and game, followed by Russia and Belgium. Butter, cheese, condensed milk, eggs, and poultry and game all beat their respective records in 1897. A QUESTION OF WET SHEEP.

A shearing case was heard before His Honour Mr Justice Hamilton on February 2nd, says the Camperdown Chronicle (Victoria), that attracted a considerable amount of attention. The plaintiff, Patrick Hogan, a shearer, claimed £19 damages for breach of agreement from Thomas Turner Shaw, of Wooriwyrite. The action was for a breach of a written agreement drawn up between the parties and signed by both. The first clause of this agreement provided that the plaintiff, in conjunction with others, should shear all the sheep required to be shorn, and the employer guaranteed that the number of sheep should not be less than 30,000 and not more than 50,000. The seventh clause was to the effect that the person in charge of the shed on behalf of the employer, or such other person as the employer should see fib to appoint, should be the person to .decide all questions arising under the agreement or the rules, and his decision should be final and conclusive. The eighth clause stated that both shearer and employer should conform to the rules indorsed on the agreement, but the only orie.of any importance wjis rule 13, which provided that no shearer should be compelled to shear wet ■or cancerous sheep. The facts Were that the plaintiff and fifteen others who signed similar agreements were employed to -carry out the shearing on Wooriwyrite*Aof which Thomas Turner Shaw was manager. Things went on very well until November 18th, 1897. On that day it rained continuously, and work waß stopped by the employer. On the following morning the bell did not ring ab the usual time, six o'clock in the morning, but it did ring for work at half-past one. All the shearers, including the plaintiff, assembled in their proper positions, and each man shore two or three sheep. Then somebody objected that the sheep were wefc. Mr Shaw called upon the plaintiff to continue shearand holding out his watch said he would give him two minutes to go on, and made a similar statement to the others ; but as no one went on the men were discharged. The defence was that there was no breach of agreement, and it was contended that under clause 7 of the agreement defendant gave his decision as the person in charge of the shed, and that was conclusive. His Honour held that no one had been appointed under clause 7, as Mr Shaw was the employer and could not appoint himself. Counsel for the defence then said that the case resolved

itself into one of fact, which His. Honour would have to determine. After hearing the evidence, which was conflicting, regarding the condition of the sheep, Hia Honour said that owing to the non-per-formance of the 7th clause, he was unfortunately put into the position of a manager of a shearing shed, of which he knew nothing, and he had to decide whether the sheep were wet on November 19th. He was puzzled about this word " wet," but the parties seemed to agree that sheep were wet when it was by rain or external moisture, and not from sweating or natural causes of that kind. He took the word in this instance to mean that the sheep were web from rain. He had been told by these practical men that they found it difficult to say whether the sheep were wet or dry at once, and how much more difficult was ib for him to decide when he had never seen the sheep at all, and had nothing bo go on bat a conflict of evidence. It was to the interests of both that shearing should be proceeded with, but it was impossible for him to form an 'opinion as to whether the sheep were wet or not. Both sides seemed to be sincere in He would give a verdict for thp defendant, but as the whole of the law suit had been cauaed by the* non-performance of clause 7 he would give no costs.