LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1287, 13 September 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A successful ploughing match has been held at 'Waitara.

A New Plymouth man has been digging, new potatoes ior more than a fortnight pastFather o'Meara"s (successor as Parish Priest in Feilding is Father Golden, who ha.s been iv charge of Kaikoura for the past ten years. Mr .J. P. Dugdale, late oi the Valuation Department, has been appointed secretary ol the Hawera County Electric Light Company. ■A Riverd'afe- farmer states that the grass has not come on so well this season as the last. He said that it was only within the last week that the pastures made any showing at all. Nomination for the vacancy ou the Horough Council caused by the resignation of .Mr trod Piraui, close at noon to-morrow. So far, -Mr A. M. Ongley is the only nominee. It in generally understood that the Gaming Act Amendment Hill, to be given notice of by Sir Joseph Ward, aims at the total extinction ot the bookmaker and the reduction ot the number of racing days. The sixteenth anniversary of the founding of Taihape was celebrated yesterday. Only two out of the twenty original pioneers from Christchurch are left, and these, Messrs McCorniK-k and Sliuto, received hearty conig.ratulatioiijs. 'A Wellington paper reports that Mr E ..Short, the noted Roimiey breeder, is returning from the Argentine International Show by way of tbo Tinted States. He spent six weeks in 'England, and is now homeward bound. The-Te Puia Native township, which the Government has announced its intention of purchasing, lies between Tokomaru Bay and Waipiro Bay. It was formed about 1000, and contains a Government sanatorium and licit springs. Altogether the Government will acquire about 800 acres. .Mr Kenneth I). Dansoy, who was killed whilst nulling at Obakuue yesterday morning, was an engineer uy profession, and a native of N(w South Wales, lie had been working lor .Mr llroadbelt for some nine years, and was about AC> years of ago. .Mr Dansoy had been married only some throe months. - "The much-discussed toll-gate at IMuilio, Taranaki, which was recently sCverely liandled by certain settlers who objected to pay tolls, is evidently a payable proposition. During the past thirteen months £7A\) 14s 9d was (reports a Taranaki exchange) taken in tolLs from travellers ou the King's highway. Tho local Council now proposes to endeavour to lease tlie gates to some private individual or institution . One of the Otago representative football team had an embarrassing experience when leaving; Lambton station for tho Wairarapa. The visitois havo a "war-whoop which conclud"s with tho triumphant cry -'Success." Tho wero giving full vent to tho "Success ati the train was drawing out when suddenly the false teeth of one of the performers shot through t\w carriage window. Tiifortiinsitely they could not be recovered in time to hand back and had to be forwarded to t.hei: owner by a subsequent train. A sixty-foot whale, one of three "right whales seen playing about the entrance to Queen Charlotte Sounds, Was captured by the Terawhiti whalers at tlie end of last week. The monster was harpooned ou the Marlborough side of the Straits, and made right across to the Wellington side, some 25 miles being covered before tho whale gave up. At the time of the leviathan's surrender it was within four miles of Wellington Heads. The catch is worth about £600, and is tho first '' right" caught by the Tory Channel men for two seasons. The examination of the Rotorua waters for the presence of radium, which Dr Endlestberger and Dr Bertram have been making, has convinced them that several of the thermal springs give evidence of being highly radio-active. They have not yet completed their investigations, aud are now.engaged in making very exhaustive tests, the results of which will be published. The exact bearing of this property of the springs on the cure of certain diseases is exciting much interest among medical men at Home, and great possibilities mo hoped for from such waters.

Mr and Mrs J. W. Marshall, of Marton, arrived from London by the Athenic. Mr E. J. WackrUl was last night elected a member of the Chamber of i Commerce. At a Maori church gathering in the Tokomaru district, East uoast, 86 saddle horses wore hitched up to the fence around the building where the service was held. Dr Chappie, M.P., who arrived in Auckland on Sunday, passed through Feilding for Wellington to-day. After attending to private affairs, he will return to England—probably about the end of the year. In their holiday in Victoria the two New Zealand dairy experts, James Snwers and W. Grant, found that the Australian dairying season was starting at a much earlier date than usual, and that the milk had already assumed large proportions'. It is announced in another column that the annual horso parade in connection with the Feilding A. and P. Association will bo held in the N.Z.L. and M.A. Co.'s paddock in Kimbolton Road, on Friday' afternoon, the 23rd inst. Entries close next Friday with Secretary Fisher. The Ellesmere branch of the Farmers' Tnion considers that the end < f the New Zealand timber industjrv is m sight, and that the heavy duty'and railage rates on Australian timber should be removed. It has accordingly decided that a remit to that effectbe sent to the Canterbury executive of the union. The recently-formed Stratford A. and l\ Association promises to develop into a strong institution. The membership shows a rapid growth seeing that the society was only formed some three months' ago, and already over 700 members have joined, and there is a prosnect of the membership reaching 1000. * Stock on turnips iv Southland are looking well, and have come through the winter .splendidly. Turnips are leeding out much better than was predicted at the beginning of winter, and now that grass is springing fast turnips can be obtained on very reasonable terms to avoid having to plough them down. There seem to be indications that the coming summer will be a busy time all round, and that employment will be fairly plentiful. A country settler informs the Wanganui Herald that it is extremely difficult to iiiul men for all the work that is offering, and that if anyone is going to suffer it will he those employers who cannot get sufficient supply to fill the demand for country labour. Says last night's Standard: The friends of Mr G. Malmo, JUinnythorpe, will deeply regret to hear of the death of his wife, which occurred at a private hospital in Palmerston this morning, where she had been undergoing treatment for the past five weeks. The deceased lady was a daughter of Mrs Mc.Phee, Masterton, and leaves a husband and six children to mourn their loss. In 1890 the Xew Zealand Dairy farmers' Union turnover was i' 27---.-000; the amount paid for butter-fat £18,115; and in interest £686. In 19.10 the figures were £87.000; £65,----777 and £336. In 1896 the expenses, interest, commission, working and general expenses amounted to £-1312, while in 1910 these combined charges were £5300, or £1000 more than iv 1896, and with three times the turnover. At the annual meeting of shareholders of the Waitara Dairy Company the balance-sheet showed that, with a bonus of £1269 8s lid, suppliers had received 11.14 d for butter-tat. Nearly 5,000,0001b of milk were received, the average test being 4.36 (which will take some beating). The output of 'Outter exceeded that of last season by 23;', tons, whilst 19.61b of milk wero required to make a pound of butter. Tho Republic of Uruguay has not hitherto been represented by a consul in New Zealand. There arrived by the Athenic from London on Saturday Senor Cesar , Mo'ntero Bustamente, who has been appointed Oonsul-Gene-ral for Uruguay in Australasia, lie will for a time make his headepuarters in Wellington. The consul is accompanied by Senora 'Bustamente (nee Viconites'se de Vargen-Alegre) and their two daughters. Lieut.-Colonel Bauchop was taken ill whils'* on a visit to friends at Silverstream, and is still under medical treatment. He is to bo moved into town as soon as his condition will permit. Those Wellington residents who served with him in the Fourth and Seventh Contingents in South Africa had arranged to entertain him this week prior to his departure for England to gain further military knowledge. Mr Hugh Mclntyre, on assuming the Presidential chair at the. of Commerce meeting last night, made pointed reference to Keilding's reputation as a stock centre, and to the excellent quality of the animals bred here. He stated a man had come here from Ohura some time ago and picked a line of sheep which would Le considered here second-class crocks. lie took them home and put them on the fresh grass, and before many months he could not tell whether they were beef or mutton ! Feilding could .justly lay claim, continued Mr Mclntyre, to par excellence in the breeding of cattle and sheep. Mr George Uayden, a pioneer Sounds settler, is dead, aged 95 years. He was born in Hampshire, and at an early ago went with his parents to Canada (says the Pelorus Guardian), in 1537, when the rebellion broke out iv Toronto, he joined the volunteers and assisted to quell the rebellion. There was a smart skirmish between the volunteers and the rebels, but the latter were routed and 300 captured : the leaders were hanged, but the Governor (Sir Francis Bond-Head) pardoned the rest. Mr liayden used to tell of a graphic incident during the rebellion. A number of the rebels sought refuge on Goat Island, on tho American side of the river, and close to the famous Niagara Falls. One foggy night tlie Government son tries, of whom Mr liayden was one. noticed a- craft skulking in the shadows of the banks; they challenged her, and, getting no reply, they, set out in a boat to intercept her. She proved to be a steamer named the Caroline., loaded to the decks with provisions for the rebels, and would have drifted on to Goat Island. Her holm was, however, jjut hard over, and she went to hoi doom, with a thunderous roar, over the talis. Mr liayden left Canada in 1855, and arrived in Auckland in 1856. Subsequently he lived in New Plymouth, Wanganui, Wellington, and Nelson. At the latter place he witnessed the landing of the "Taranaki Refugees,'' and the hanging of the Maungatapu murderers. "Mr Hayden went to l.lavelock in 1871. A son of deceased's, Air .1.1. liayden. is a citizen of Feilding. Tho sequel to a Tiukitaliuua cheese factory row was enacted iv the Palmerston Magistrate's Court yesterday before Mr IV. I). Thomson, S.M", when two very well-known residents of the district asked his Worship to adjudicate on their little difference of opinion. Albert J. Gallichan, re- i I)resented by Air Cooper, sued D. Buchanan, for whom Mr Beale appeared, for assault. Defendant admitted the I assault, but pleaded that he had been \ goaded to it by tho insults of • informant. Defendant stated he was chairman of directors of the cheese factory, and at the annual meeting. ! held a few days ago, Gallichan hail occupied the floor for about an hour, and had made some insulting remarks to defendant, who was in the chair, because ho considered the latter had not kept order. Two days later informant made further insulting remarks about defendant, calling him a sneak and a liar. Defendant considered the only way to stop him was to chastise him, which lie did. His Worship pointed out, however, that ie law did not recognise such a remedy. If Gallichan had said anything untrue a legal remedy was provided for. .Buchanan replied that he thought the method he adopted was much easier than worrying a Magistrate with the details of a quarrel. -'That may be- so," said his Worship, "but you are not allowed to do it." Mr Cooper, for informant, pointed out that the assault may have had very serious consequences, for it took place among the factory machinery, into which Buchanan had thrown Gallichan. His Worship inflicted a fine if. £4, to include expenses of witnesses, together with solicitor's fee, £1 la.

There are now over 600 ooturamers of electricity connected with the Now Plymouth municipal electrical system.

The State l" : <( ! iotte works at Westport will be compelled to shut down for a month, owing to the supply of pitch running out. The last regular meeting of the Feilding Literary aud Debating Society will be held m the Council Chambers this evening. Impromptu speech making is the programme and should make a very interesting subject. Tbe public are cordially invited to what we have good reason to believe will prove an oratorical feast. At 11 o'clock last night a fire was discovered in a trap and hay shed belonging to Mr F. Towler, in Russell Street. The alarm was given, and the Brigade reached the spot with the greatest alertness. A trap was saved, but the shed was destroyed. Mr Towler, who is strongly of opinion that tlie incendiarist was at work, puts his loss at £20. An export in dairy produce matters informs the Stratford Post that already this season Taranaki cheese factories representing 10,000 tons of cheese have arranged to consign their output on a guarantee without recourse, which means that these factories take no risk below a certain price, fixed at very nearly the selling price of the cheeso. Mr 1). Cuddie, Chief JDairy Expert of the Agricultural Department, who passed north yesterday with Mr Singleton, told a Star reporter that he and .Mr Singleton had more calls on the row-testing question than they could possibly fulfil. They are to meet Waikato farmers to-day to discuss the formation of a cow-testing association up there. The third number of the Journal of the New Zealand Department of Agriculture has for its special feature nearly 30 "ages devoted to the dairying tpiestion of the hour—cow-testing, with a very lengthy and detailed article by Mr Singleton on the work of the Dalefield Association. There are a number of other generally interesting art icier;. The members of the Feilding IV. football team held a social at Mr A. J. Hart's rooms last evcnnig, when a most enjoyable time was 1 spent with music, song, and story. Miss Stringer presided at the piano, and was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. Mr Fred. Pirani congratulated the team on winning the shield, and referred in complimentary terms to their conduct on and off the field. Appetising refreshments were provided, and a comtplinientary vote to Mr and Mrs A. J. Hart was passed. Commenting on the oratorical contest for the Plunket Shield by the Victoria College Debating Society, the Post thus refers to a competitor from Feilding (who secured third place): "'Mr Watson's speech on Abraham Lincoln should have given those who were judges of the competition much food for thought. It was a well delivered speech, telling at times, admirable for the management of voice and gesture." A member of the Star's staff who was present at tho debate is of the opinion that had Ronald Watson drawn tho last place, instead of the first-, in tho order of speaking he would havo had a different verdict.

His Worship the Mayor has consented to open tlie Wesley Church Bazaar at 3 o'clock to-morrow in the Drill Hall, and tlie Indies of the church have all the preparations made for showing one of the best displays of attractive and useful articles ever offered in Feilding. The programme of musical items and marches by bright bands of children in fancy dresses will givepieasuro to all who attend. During the afternoon one of Feiidini_">--most popular vocalists will sing and this contribution to the programme will in itself be well worth the price of admission. A very happy afternoon is in store for all who visit tho Drill Hall to-morrow, and we wish the ladies every success in their efforts to raise a much needed addition to the funds of the church.

M. C. Pauchet, a French woolbuyer, who is in search of clips in Australia and New Zealand suitable for French requirements, arrived in Wellington from London by the Athenic. Speaking of the wool market to a Post reporter, and emphasising the fact that all he might say must be taken as his own personal opinion— nothing more—ho said he thought there would be a decline in prices at the. end of tho current year. Wool was at a very high figure just now. and had been so for some time, but there were signs of a drop, but not a largo one. From the buyers' point of view, the price all round was 10 to lo per cent, above what was considered a good price. There was always a danger of a fall when prices were very high. Reports of a lieavv decrease in the flocks of South America had made buyers last season very nervous-. They were still extremely cautious with prices where they were. Buyers recognised tho importance of the local sale. Here the wool was— in Australia and New Zealand—and buyers had to come for it. If some would not others would, so that it was sate to say that the local offerings would attract more and more buyers in the future. The grower, of course, had tho advantage of receiving his returns many weeks, even months, before he would if the wool were sent to Kurope lor auction.