MEETING OF PARISHIONERS.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume XII, Issue 47, 21 April 1910, Page 4

MEETING OF PARISHIONERS.

The annual meeting of parishioners in connection with St. Cuthbert's Church was held at the Public Hall last night, when quite a large number were present, Rev. E. A. Parker in the Chair. The minutes of the last annual meeting were read and confirmed, and the balance sheet, showing a debit balance of is 3d was read by the Secretary. The Rev. Paiker gave a short address on Church Missions &c, aud thanked all those who had assisted in church work during the year. Mr Beau reported that the contributions through the envelope system were falling off materially each successive quarter.

Resolved that the Vestry consist of three member. After discussion, it was resolved, on the motion of Messrs Beau and Fowler, that the Vestry be asked to consider the question of asking His Lordship the Bishop to visit this portion of his diocese, pointing out that he has not visited the district for six years. Other formal business was' transacted, and the proceedings, which were very animated, did not terminate until a late hour. During the evening refreshments were handed round, and a short programme of musical items was presented.

At the sale of pfivileg s for the Maclean (New South Wales) show on April 26, Rev. J. S. Garden, on behalf of the district Lodge of Good Templars, purchased the publican's booth for £zs and also the lefreshtnent booth. It is proposed to run absolutely a temperance drink stall. After the sale the purchasers recused an advance on the price from a publican. The incident is unique in the.history of the Clarence River.

One address was u>ade to do duty for two presentations to. his Excellency the Governor, says the North OtagoTimes. In a township not one hundred miles. from Oaiuaru, Lord Plunket was. presentee! with the usual address, and' made-the usual reply. After the.formal procedings, the gentleman who- had made the presentation asked the Governor to allow him to retain possession of the address, as he intended to present it the following day in a different part of the district. Lord Plunket laughingly complied, and thus the address was twice presented, aad twice replied to.

"lam so accustomed to seeing balance-sheets with tags on them," said Mr Crewe, of Pahiatua, at the meeting of the Masterton Hospital Board, "that I look, upon one without a tag as a freak." Ii is stated that nowadays in the VVaikato even the smallest men are manuring land with excellent results. A few years ago it was only the well-to-do farmer who felt safe in going to this expense. A Christchurch scientist has made some interesting observations on the caterpillar pest that did such extensive damage to the crops in Canterbury lately. He collected 50, aud p l aced them in a box with 2iu of earth on the bottom, and covered it with glass to facilitate observation. In 24 hours (says a Press Association telegram) every caterpillar had sunk into the soil, and in seven days every one was in the chrysalis stage, in 28 days the batch had been converted into moths of a slaty-grey colour, having four wings. With the moths appeared se eral blue flies not unlike blown , but smaller aud more active. V> at a third of the chrysalides had been destroyed by a maggot, aud the scientist concluded that the blue fly was the natural enemy of the pest, and that.it laid its eggs on the caterpillar's back, aud the eggs were hatched out underground.

A late September lamb killed by Mr A. Plomore, of the Tiritea, the other day weighed 671 b (says the Dominion). The lamb was a Border Leicester, and its weight may be regarded *as phenomenal, seeing that the ordiuary weight of shop lambs is from 251 b to 401 b.

On the farm of Mr S. Swales, of Stokesley, North Yorkshire, a cat which recently- lost its kittens has adopted a lamb three weeks old which was forsaken by its mother. The cat watches the lamb carefully in the meadow during the day and in the shed at night. The two sleep together, the cat keeping a guardian paw on the neck of the lamb. The lamb is being brought up by feeding with a bottle. Says the Shanghai National Review:—" China is an enormous mine of purchasing power, out of which the nations of the West will dig more gold within the next century than has ever come out of shafts driven into the earth or the shilling sands of gold-bearing streams washed by placer miners. Railroad development, now embryonic but alive, will open markets now inaccessible aud the increase will be by leaps and bounds.

Subsequent to the recent match in Wellington between the Russian wrestler, Hackenschmidt, and R. J. Scott, ofStratford, Hackenschmidt's manager collected the stake of lodged by Scott, and handed it to his principal. The Hawera Star learns that when the cheque was handed over Hackenschmidt inquired, " Who is the man ? Is he a poor man?" On being assured that Scott was not a moneyed man, he replied, "Oh, poor man, eh? Hum!" and meditatively tore the cheque into iragments and threw it away. The graciousuess of this little incident lies in the fact that he made no representations concerning his cancellation of the bond to either the public or to his defeated opponent.

A Wanganui paper says :—Farmers who have allowed pigs to run in the orchards have been astonished at the increased growth and fruitbearing qualities of the trees. As the result of observations in this respect some farmers now have pens in their oichards that are easily moved, and the pigs are shifted from place to place between the trees at various intervals. The results are stated to be highly satisfactory.