OFF TO CAMP.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1797, 18 May 1912, Page 2

OFF TO CAMP.

A number of Territorials who did not attend the training camp at Westoe some time back left yesterday afternoon I'or Wanganui, to undergo their training at the camp for casuals there. The party was in charge of Captain Barltrop.

Mr F. F. Haggitt, who has been ill during the week, is steadily improving.

Empire Day, Juno 3, will be observer! as a public holiday in the Government offices throughout the Dominion.

The Mahe.no, which sailed from Sydney for Auckland at noon last Wednesday, has on board an Australian and an English mail via Suez. The Feilding portion is due per Main Trunk express on Monday.

The steamers Maunganui, Malieno, Moana and Victoria will probably be within wireless range of Wellington to-night.

Mr Arnold Williams, the wellknown Wellington cricketer, and for nine years with the firm of George, Doughty and Co., left by the Corinthic this week on a business tiup to England. About 100 teacher officers are expected to attend the camp of instruction to be held at Hastings during the last week of this month. The work to be done will bo of a most elementary kind, arranged on a basis which will classify the training of the junior cadets as a simple introduction only to / the defence scheme generally.

Tlie season now drawing to a close has been a record one (says the Age), so far as the farmers of Masterton and the Wairarapa, generally are concerned. Tlie price of dairy produce has never been higher, sheep and other forms of stock have sold at excellent prices, and wool has well maintained its position. One farmer says the increase in his yield . this . year over that of last had enabled him to purchase a motor car.

Weasels are reported to be increasing in numbers in th& district (says the "Western Star). The other day one was run over hy a train near Otautau. The weasel had caught a rabbit a.nd -one pair had got tto the railway just in front of an approaching train, but the weasel would not kit go his hold. The wheels of the engine passeel over and took off bunny's head, but even in death the weasel would not let go and was killed himself rather than give up his prey.

A good instance of the unreliability of.-short tests has been afforded by the experience with Shorthorn cows at Ruakura Farm of Instruction this season. One cow, Adelaide, a grade Shorthorn, has 'never given a higher weekly record than 271b of milk, and yob by April 27 she had given oyer 10.0001b of milk, with a 4 per-cent-test. The cow that gave the best weekly record among the Shorthorns —Penrose, a well-bred roan —4521b, of 3.8 milk, promises to giver a lower return for" the season than Adelaide.

From Messrs Thos. Horton, Ltd., comes a handsomely covered and bulky catalogue 'descriptive of the firm's extensive business and specialities. Not to know of tlie Horton nurseries at Hastings and Pahiatua is to argue that you do not know anything at all about what harvest the earth can yield when you tickle it with the Horton seed. The catalogue, winch is something more than a handsome advertisement— for it contains muoh useful advice for amateur gardeners and orchardists—can be had for the ,'isking. Speak up on a postcard to Hastings. Some Time ago a youith belonging to Timaru incurred the displeasure of the Government officials through his experiments in wireless; telegraphy, resulting in the revocation of the Department's permission to continue his experiments. After that he left tlie telegraph service, worked his way to England from Timaru, entered tho wireless school in London, and having passed the Government and the Marconi Company's special examinations' with honours has now been-appointed to the Wih.it© "Star liner Megantic (15,000 ,tons) and sailed, on his maiden voyage from Liverpool .to America as wkeless telegraph operattoi\ v

Referring to the efforjt being made Ito resusciate interest in football in i Cambridge, a correspondent, signing himself "Follow On," writes as follows ito tlie Waikato Independent: ".Men of Cambridge! Do you recognise that, the world looks towards New Zealand for one thing—not for butter, not ,evon for cheese, but for footballers !"

Tho return of ithe stock exported from New Zealand during April indicates tliat very little business was done in this direction. In all, 75 horses were sent ltd Australia, and 16 to the Pacific Islands. With tho exception of six iliorses from Wellington 24 from Lyttelton, and 4 from Dunedin, the whole of the above shipments were made from 'Auckland. Particulars of the horses shipped are": 63 draughts (8 stallions, 16 mares, 27 geldings, 1 colt, 11 fillies), 9 thoroughbreds (1 stallion 2 mares, 3 geldings, 1 colit, 2 filly foals), 2 hackneys (1 mare, 1 gelding), 16 light horses (15 mares, 1 gelding), 1 trotting gelding.