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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1912, Page 8

"For some time past our mind's eye has been turned to New Zealand," runs a letter from two prospective immigrantc from Canada, written to the Mayor of Christchurch (Mr. J. J. Dougall). The couple, who have a family of two sons, write from Saskatchewan, a grain-growing' district in -NorthWestern Canada, where, apparently, ithe climate is rather rigorous. The husband, a bookkeeper, aged forty-five years, lacks farming experience, although desirous of starting on hie own account, and his wife a6ks, "In your opinion, would a man of average intelligence with about three thousand dollars above transportation expenses be safe in going to New Zealand?" The Mayor has passed the question on to the Labour Department. . Deck-hands on the tender and watchmen connected with the Harbour Board's pilot staff are making demands for increased pay. There are . five of them usually engaged on the tender and other work, and two or three as watchmen. They base their demands for a rise of pay (above 10s a day, tho present rate) on the facts that they work seven days a week from daylight to dark, and that the waterside workers and other hands are now better paid ; also that the shipping of the port has increased in oversea tonnage alone from 221,472 net tons in February, 1911 — the next highest tonnage — to 251.108 tons in January laat, represented^ by sixty steamers and five sailing vessels. These figures do not, however, include intercolonial and coastal traders. When a sheep will be sent to the new freezing vvorka at Makarewa, in Southland, nothing will be wasted. The carcase will be frozen, the hide tanned,, the wool dried and packed, the ofi'ai placed in the digester, and the # tallow extracted, and what remains will be crashed and made up into manure. From tho, trotters ncatsfoot oil will be extracted, and from the blood the highest class ot manure will be manufactured. A more complete utilisation of what used to be called " wasto products " can hardly be imagined, remarks the Inver- • cargill Times. A distressing affair is, according to the American newspapers, causing acute embarrassment to Mr. Frank Cockrell, a well-known timber merchant of Chicago, who refused an offer of marriago made to him by Mrs. Edna Robinson, a woalthy woman, of Portland (Oregon), who was recently divorced. It was at an after-theafcde supper party thut Mrs. Robinson, recalling tho many years of friendship between herself and her host, suggested.. that a marriage based on such a foundation was bound to be successful and happy. Mr. Cockrell politely and as tactfully a* possible rejected tho proposal, morning . Mr 6. Robinson called him up on tho telophone and informed him that she loved him deoiply, and could not bear to live without him. lie replied that lie valued her friendship and wishod io maintain it, but ho did not cherish tho feelings of a husband towards her. "Then listen, Frank," came , tho woman's reply. The noxt moment tho report, of a revolver shot crashed along tho wire.. When Mr. Cockrell reached Mrs. Robinson's hotel ho found her with a bullet wound in the region of hor heart. "I meant to kill niyaolf outright," Bhe whispered, '.'but, you 6eo, I huvo m ado a mevss of it." The doctors declare that though. Ml3. Robiaaon's condition is grave, there is a faint possibility thut the will live. For children's hacking cough at nigbt, Woods' Great Peppermint Cur*, U 6d,~«