OROUA FREEZING WORKS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2601, 9 April 1915, Page 2

OROUA FREEZING WORKS.

The Railway Works Engineer from Wanganui was at Aorangi this, week, and made the levels for tho new skiing which is to bo put in for fhe Oroua Freezing Company's works. Messrs Hugh Burrell and J.J. Brycc aro still continuing their-canvass for shareholders, with good .success. Shooting on his property at Kaliu lerawa yesterday (says the Standard,) Mr Melvin Shero secured a ten-point-er red deer. From the heads already secured the season gives promise of being a very good one. Bernhurdi, in his book entitled "Britain as Germany's Vassal," asserted that H.M.S. Lion had shown grave defects. As a matter of fact, the Blutcher was so staggered at these defects that s he turned turtle! Mr John Gould, of Apiti, has been a sufferer by the depredations of "•sports" with dog and gun, and offers La reward for the conviction of the person who shot a cow on his land, and will prosecute all trespassers in future. Peopio travelling NapierwarcLs speak in astonishing tones of the wonderful change that has come over Hawke's Bay district beyond Danncvirkc (says tho Dannevirke News). Where only a few weeks ago the country wag an eye-sore to gaze upon —parched fields, brown hills, and illlooking sheep and cattle —now wealthy pastures, green fields and hillsides as far as the eye can sec, and stock in the best of condition meet the gazo. The whole countryside is' indeed a very pretty picture. At the Motucka Horticultural Society's Autumn Show, last Monday, the cup competition fruit which occupied the elopes of two long stands was the-centre of attraction. There were live silver cups offered in this section, and the excellent quality of the large entries gave the judge many trying moments in deciding the winner. So close "was the compctiton that the judge's stewards, busy with the calipers ou one occasion, found that one apple was J.-J.Oth of an inch oversize, which caused tlie. entry to lose the special. A correspondent aays: Three of the Gorman prisoners who instigated the riot and were liberated from prison at Singapore by the natives were sailors who originally belonged to the celebrated Emden. These men bad escaped from the Emdeu's collier, Markomania, before the latter was sunk by the Yarmouth. The Emdcn's men bribed some of the Chinese to help them get away, and the Chinese in turn sold them to the authorities, with the consequence that thoy wore captured by a French torpedo' boat at Cahtbau Islands. A crop of Pearl wheat was grown this season on Iho northern side of the Mandevillc Main Drain (says the Lyttelton Times), which in .1870 was a mass of swamp, where if a. man stood on a "niggerhead" and moved his body be would set fully five acres moving. The owner of tbe land is Mr P. Kennedy, and Ibe lessee, Mr Woods, put the wheat in. A heavy crop was secured and it wag recently threshed, and sold at 0s 8d per bushel delivered on trucks at Feruside to the buyer. The yield of prime wheat was 81 bushels to the acre. The drainage of the swamp, which also provides a waterway for tho Cust river, has evidently done good to that portion of the country. A London paper records three cases of eviction of soldiers' wives. They form part of a black list seen from week to week. In a. report of one case tho paper says: A soldier's wife, Mr H Atwood, whoso husband is fighting in France, was evicted from the lodge at Goddiugton Park, the residence of (J. Ashley Dodd, Esq., J.P., the landowner. Apparently the.lady of the manor was dissatisfied with the way iv which Mrs Atwood opened and closed the lodge gates, and the result was an eviction order. In i drenching rain the soldier's wjfo, with ■ her two little children, was turned i out on the road, some kindly neigh- ; hour storing a few sticks of furni- 1 ture. Wheeling a perambulate*, and : with bitterness in her heart, Mrs At- 1 wood and her children trudged into i Ashford, where she found lodging for i the night. For influenza take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails, ls 6d, 2» 6d,