Notes and Comments.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 542, 8 April 1908, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

Good news comes from a great authority, Sir Dyco Duckworth, as a corntort tor tho sufferer from rheumatics, bir Dyce, in an address given to tho l<aoulte do Aledecino at Paris on Fob. 20 stated that the very ills under winch many sufferers groaned rendered them comparatively, if not entircfly, immune from otlier more serious troubles. Tho more rheumatic or gouty a person was the Jess pronounced was his tendency to consumption. Tuberculosis in a rheumatic subject, and still more in a gouty subject^ was extremely raro. and when it declared itself it made very slow pro-Ki-ess, and was frequently arrested. This is a valuable opinion, but it cannot bo said to bo unprejudyced.

In the Pastoratists Review to hand hist week is published a resolution passed by tho governing body of tho Xew South Wales Royal A. and P. Association to tho effect that tho identity of no?io of the judges appointed for tho Royal Show to bo field in Sydney this week should bo disolosod until tho first day of tho Show. How such a resolution can bo effectivo it is hard to understand in faco ol tho fact that at least onenamo lias boon published' and commented on during tho past fortnight throughout our own dominion. The comment was upon 1 ho Association's offer of £12 towards tho expenses ot a judgo from -Now Zealand. Tho Otago A. and P. Association coiild not find anyone in go at tho price, but there was a breeder in tho Manawatu large-heart-ed enough to undertake tho judging ol tho Ayrshiro cattle. That was Mr S. Standen, of Aorangi; and his namo has been published despite the above resolution. It seems as if tho iN.S.W. A. and P. Society is in need of fresh blood to bring its management up to date, for tho idea of making a secret ot tho identity of tho judges is not only a serious reflection upon exhibitors, but is a farcical proposition; for any exhibitor, by taking a little trouble, could easily find out tho names if ho was very anxious to know.