REGULATIONS. TO THE EDITOR.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 46, 24 February 1908, Page 2

REGULATIONS. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir,— Dr. Mason has fixed the "butterfat'' and '\ish" limits., but the level they Ikive been phiced nt will lmxl him in *,i qiMndary if depleted pastures (nnd they ice dejilot-ed) lead to low tt.pl ■», and thereby bar .i iniif-idoiiible portion of thealready loci limited s-jjij.hos leaehinu th<> principal cities of Ilif Dominion.- 1 ai.i, oh., HENIir BODLKY. Wellington, 21st February. 190 a.

"To-morrow, and to-moirow, and tomorrow" — Wanganui thinks it will never come. Everybody is excited, and everybody seems to believe that all the clocks havo stopped. Only two p'.'i"sons are calm—^Webb and Tresidder, who cannot afford to v/af-lo energy in ferment — but myriads aro bub-^ bling over. The weather is dethroned from its high seat en the lips of men, oxcep,. in conjunction with the race. The drought and forest fires, fa&tiug, and Dr. Unkcvell, nil things, all men, arc of no account except the liver and Webb and T'residder.' Nobody grows tiled oi' disciusiny thf; ininisii i> nt stmg^lc, for a wtukl's chiinij> ; onr»hip. 3t. ia paid that ilrinktue cicu.U:o a (hirst for inoio drinkiny ; tjlkiny ot' a scullir.g iace incites (ho loilt,uc to moie talking. In the Mreetb, in the shop.-, and in the hotels, in traps, motorcars, broughams, ■ {'lid ni every placo that i*. moving ov slalionai-y, the talk' 13 all the saniu, and no man looks bored, liven tho stolid have been fired at last, and are as keen to argue, as the, morcuncl. Wags riay, that even the horses are neighing and ycaing about the event, and arc having small side bets. The river gods, have called to the people and they h>tve conic from all tho ends of New Zealand and from tho chores on the other side of tho Tasmcn fiea. The masses haw poured into Waiisjaniii, and the now ht:s not ' ceased. Tho' hotels are inundated, boarding houses avo pwamp'jtl. l'rivatu peoplo ha.\c v's many guests as their lioukm will carry, and all haio holiday faces. The sculh of Tvo'urldi'r .md Webb hive beuten work-a-day liii-.nPMi out oi lh" air. Tho farmer from way-hack may havo goods threatened by forest fires, but he is now in W.ui^.unii nn«l ghep neviy ji thought \ to grain or wool. • GROOMINU FOR THE TRAY. For ri" weclcb (he competitoir, have been more honoured in observance than Roy-ally. Every movement has been watched. Whether they talked or rowed, or ate or drank, they have not escaped the 'koen eyes of critics and commentators. Iheio have been many Boswclls along the liver banks to faithfully record all tho doings and savings of the tw:i Johncom. Daly nolmg tii-) pcri'nnmncis from 'by to day, (ho lip-tcMS- haw beo.i toutinually h.irknu; iorw.i'd io 55th Tebruaiy. A llifll.tli if. I) It M,'S "i'l (ATT })dl" till 1 Mioulm'-T," ii'd ih" 1 .in 1 >■ ,i» .I'lciuly ■p'.itv. in" I .iio-nifl iii liniA !•; thf> ?so\v 'At ,i\ niij^'i . ins 1 'I. i •,'<;. , ,< .■> !i,i , lj-cu \ery ftottfiiiy iulJha % ; t,.t it im a;ul a:nly drawing his (shadow o-,er hill and dale,

WJLNGANUI, This Day. kts some friends. Wanganui and Now Zc-uLiiid generally are still faithful to Webb, but tin sturdy Australian's soundness of wind and limb is convincing the public that ho will die very hard, if ho does die. lie has the face ol a ninn who -will never acknowledge defeat till he is counted out, all out. THIN TO FAT AND FAT TO THIN. The men -lie a. contrast in several "ways. The tall spare Nev,- Zealunder works to tjuin weight. He stau'J v, itli a frame, and proceeds to attach inuitlc to it. He eats hbarlily all the time, but puts on only the r.ovt of tissue th.a will help him to no Ihiitern to lhi> tlo/.en. When he is oft t!:o river, ho goes thxough a course of Koman rings and other pymnastic appliances. He has bnen working 'vit'i hi? he-nd as well ;is hts body, hay tho v.'utchiiun. Ho learned things from iSI-mbuiv uncl other Australians, and he has put the theories into practice, so that ho i.s a muchivnprowd nan. Fogwell. r.n oxpoit Austv.iii.m o.ii-iman, v ho joined the Wiingamil contingent some time ago, admitted that he could ha idly recognise Webb as the same man who- had vanquished Charles Towns. Trcsidrier's trouble Ins been to shake off pupeiiluous tissue. Unlike Webb, the bv.ily Ausixulnm begins heavy, and '"lenders" hnnr-elf down. Yet even with Jiard work ho found that ilesh gained on liim. At last a. succession .of sultry days came to his rescue, and gradually he began to chop into his fiphting form, which is about Isist 71b. He has been fond of varying his rowing with long v^alks, and this combination has put his well-knit limbs into Olympian order. Ifc, too, may ho trusted to put head into his strokes. He has not toiled for twenty yeais on Ih." 1 v at«r in vain. He has bevii in the best of iuiuufiiu company, in the thick of the talent, since ho was a youth. yince he loadieil Wanpanui 't'residder bab bscn' much under the public eye, but Webb h,'3 ycuerally managed to ch'.d's the sentinel's, except the very knowing devotees.. ll*> has worked hip skiff on a sacluded leach from Arsunolio, and lie has put in nvu-Ji of his trj'ming ;ib Kawhaiki, \vherj he camped and was almost Morshijjped by tha heio-loving Maori 3. i