THE CARTERTON SHOW

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2464, 5 October 1914, Page 2

THE CARTERTON SHOW

There should be no doubt about the question of allotting a covered stall for all purebred cattle entered for the Wairarapa Show, at Carterton. The committee are just completing the latest additions to the large number already erected on fTiese well-equipped showgrounds.

".Inst like you ccc in the pictures," was an English Tommy's description of the first engagement the British troops ha-d with the Germans.

The Auditor-General (Colonel Collins) holds that a road-roller . could not be purchased out of a loan carried for the "formation, metalling, and improvement of the Hamilton streets."

A party of Invercargillites, who recently paid a visit to the hills aboutKingston, shot 107 goats. They state that the animals abound in large numbers, and that owners of runs in the Lakes district -relcome visits from shootiste.

A Tanranga confectioner on Friday had occasion to remove the contents' of a box of imported chocolates. At the bottom of the box wa.s a slip of paper on which was written in pencil; "Miss Jean Simpson, 149 Ferry road, Leith, Scotland. Oh, I do want soms-xmo to love me."

As the result ot an inquiry maskby an Otago Daily Times reporter, ;i Dunedin motor firm found that th'*y had been -telling tins of petrol containing five quarts one pint as gallon tins. The fault lay with the tinsmith. Tho firm in question wondered why they had been doing such a roaring trade in motor spirits.

Mr Campbell, Government inspector of orchards, having completed a round of the properties in the Hastings district, sayjs that tho late peaches, apricots, Japanese plums on the Hastings flats, aro very badly damaged where no firing was carried on. Where there was firing the fruit nipped by tho frost only equalled a good, thinning. Pakowhai and Havelock were not so badly damaged.

Although the Poherna completed discharge of her cargo of "coal at Lyttelton shortly after 2 o'clock on Thursday, it was some three hours later before she left for Westport. The reason for the delay was due to the stokehold hands, who declined to proceed to sea until one of their number, a German A was discharged. The owners of the vessel signed the m-sn off, engaged another in his place, and the vessel left the whsrf. "

The Christchurch police received the following advice from the constablo at Hanmer: -"Fred Wat-son, a settlor at Tekaki, Murchison,' left Hanmer Springs last Wc-dnesday week by- way of Lake Ada and Cannibal Gorge, for Manuwera Springs. He was due at Tekaki last Monday, but has not yet turned up. He was riding one horse and leading another. It is feared that he got off the track and met with an accident.'' Search parties are now out.

In an article on "M.P.'s at Dinner," by Colonel -Lockwood, ~M.P., chairman of the Kitchen Committee in the House of Commons, occurs the following paragraph: "Better meat is to be had nowhere else in London. Only English meat is served; the only foreign stuff w© allow to bo brought in is Canterbury lamb, which is served to members who wish for it. Personally, I think Canterbury lamb is often superior to the Home article."

A Christchurch resident who is im pressed with the necessity for the establishment oi an adequate number of trained men has begun a movement for the enrolment of those willing to undergo training, and has distributed a number of lists for signature in the City and its vicinity. The list-) bear the following heading: "We, the undersigned, seeing that our Empire is at war, and recognising the necessity for trained men, volunteer our services for the defence of our homes and our country, and pledge ourselves to assemble for drill when called upon, to diligently and zealously continue to attend drills and parades, and subordinate ourselves to the necessary discipline until released or passed into reserve corps."

It is of interest to note t-hnt in connection with the annual gunnery tests of the British Navy, for the year 1913, the vessels of the Australian Navy won a prominent place. Tho battle-cruiser H.M.A.S. Australia was second in the whole of the Navy in the heavy gun-layers' tests for ships armed with 12in guns. Iv the percentage of hits to the number of rounds fired in battle practice she was actually first of all the British ships of the Dreadnought and later classes. In the firing of her smaller guns she took eighth position, and in battle practice for Class I ships ehe was sixth. Tins is a very fine record, and affords an excellent idea of the high pitch of efficiency reached' by the men of the Commonwealth Navy. Australia may well be proud of her fleet when in competition with th« best that the British Navy possesses her ships can hold their own in the manner indicated.

The effects of tlir- war upon th" country homes of England are describes! in interesting style in a letter received -by an Auckland resident from a lady correspondent who had been staying in Essex. Writing on August 14, sho stated that some farmhouses and the towers of two churches had been blown up, as they might have served as landmarks for the enemy. "Spies are everywhere," the letter states. "A German spy was caught in the grounds here the other day. and we are 12 miles from Colchester or Ipswich, quite in the country. In Devon spies havo been caught in remote villages. Prices went up enormously when' tho war began, but have gone down. Petrol is dear, but a substitute iy being provided--a great mercy. . . . Before the war I wont to see an old lady at Felixstowe, who had a nice house and superb gardens on the cliff and terrace walks cut in the cliffs. Now I fear they are occupied by guns and her house blown up, as it was a landmark."

The war can make no difference to spring cleaning, which is a necessary pieco of work. It is marvellous when one rummages about the house how much is found necessary to replace, and this is particularly true of floor coverings. Door mats have a way of getting out of condition; they are trod upon so much that destruction is inevitable. The best door mate aro tho fringed Liskurl, and it is a leading line with Sutton'e.—A. H. Sutton and Co. The firm is now offering six dozen of these door mats at very reasonable prip-ig.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.