LIGHTING IN MITCHELLTOWN.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 72, 22 September 1900, Page 6

LIGHTING IN MITCHELLTOWN.

TO, THE EDITOB. Sir — Your correspondent Mr. Thomson is mistaken in his remarks about the lighting of Mitchelltovn. The position is this with vs :— As yet we have no lights, and what is worse, the lights proposed by the Council— namely, three —will be quite useless to the residents, hence the deputation, that waited on the Melrose Borough Council last Tuesday evening to protest against the action of the Council in its distribution of the lamps in Ohiro Ward, and its want of attention to this parti of the borough in particular. — I am, etc., GEORGE LINDSAY, Secretary Mitchelltown Committee. Mitchelltown, 20th Sept.

A report, issued by the Department of Agriculture at Washington, dealing with the dairy industry, states that there are now over 17,000,000 cows and heifers producing milk for dairying purposes in the United States ; these are not only supplying the home population with milk, butter, and cheese, bufc also furnishing; the dairy produce that is exported. In 1399 11.000,000 cows yielded an average of 1301b of' butter per cow, total 1,430,000,0001b; 1/000,000 cows yielded an average of 300 ib of cheese pei* cow, total 300,000,0001'n ; and 5,500,000 cows Produced an average of 280 gallons of milk per cotv, total 2,000,000,000, and the products are valued at over £1,000,000. An unusually large lot or" greenstone from the South was landed <.m the Greymoufch wharf ovi the 6th inst, ready for shipment (says the Grey River Argus). One magnificent lump weighs 9owt, and ieeined of first-class quality. The smaller pieces are all carefully bagged. Of late (/-ears the demand for greenstone had not oeen so active as it was at one time ; but i more favourable condition of the trade .seems to harp again set in. Easby's Venetian Blinds aio a<lvari»»Kl *n another column, I