BEET ROOT GROWING IN VICTORIA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10968, 16 July 1898, Page 2

BEET ROOT GROWING IN VICTORIA.

We regret to aea that the first praotloal attempt at beet-grawicg for angar Id the Außtralailan colonies bsi proved a failure co far. The (aotory la at Maffra, in Gippeland, where the coll 1» firat-olaea. Msffra's representative Id Parliament la Mr Allan M'Lsan, who nntU lately was in the Ministry. Mr M'Lsao Is chairman of directors, and both Parliament and the Government gave him all the assistance he asked for ; find he baa a duty la his favor of £6 per ton. In hla statement to Parliament ho estimated na ontpnt of 3500 tons of sugar /or the eoniou, bnt tho first season's output la only 600 tons. Consequently the oonoero has been woiked at a loss, and the shareholders will bs aeked to snbacrlbe more capital. The bid season Is reepooiible for portion of the foiling off, bat not for all. Tho great difficulty ahead U that the farmers find that growing beet does not pay. It DOBts £8 an acre to produoe the boot, the Average per aoro baa been eight to nine tons, and tho ptloa they ■ot for It (aeooidlng to Ua utandaid of saoohailne contents) has been from 7« to 19i a ton. Even at the highest price the grower only gets hit own money batk— there la no profit. Generally speaking there la a handsome lois. Dairying and grazing pay ever so mnoh batter, and the fatmer won't grow beet for the leva of It. The revenoe has lost £3600 1b dnty on the 600 toan of iDgtr put on (ho mwket, which la a good artlo'u ; au that rookunlco the luia to the rcveuue, the loss to tho company, Bud the lots to the gianer, the future poatlbUltlea of the beet ingst

indnitry ate not very promlilop;. Bat the f aotory mtnageirß, who have been specially imported from Germany, are still remarkably hopeful, we are asitned, and declare that the Industry will snrvlve the gradnal withdrawal of the £6 per ton protection, Experimental sowings of beet lod to the expeotatton of a yield of over 25 tons to the aore. That would pay well enough If tbe roots contained a fair peroentsge of sacobatlne matter. It Is meet nnfoitnnato thai tbe first year's operations should have been attended by drought.

Oar Supplement today conialas a very interesting variety of roadlug matter, suitable for all tastes. " The Lost Lettor," by Ptcebe Hart, is complete la tbta issue, and is wiisten la the,t aathoreßs's beßt style. "Peter fiagot's Device,' Is a true story of tho Revolutionary war ; "At Old Jim's G/ave," is pathetically told by Hairlot Cox, whilst tbe articles in the mlsce'l6neous column, "Colonel Hay on Literature," " Gave Alms to Spain," 11 What 1b Morro Castle," &o , will be found thoroughly up-to-date. ' ' ' Wellington G jnuip," several letters to 1 tbe editor, ami n report of tbe meeting of : the Hawko'a B.y Land Board yesterday, j fflll be found un the fourth page, also . sporfclsg tewj, an ex-Hawke's Bay resident's lent'jr from the Klondyke, an account of a presentation at Woodvllle, 3 and onr Daneviiko correspondent's com- • munioatlorj. 1 The K6V, E. Allacson's mission oomb metoes at the Cathedral this evening.* ■ The senior football fixture on the Keo a reatinn Ground to day will ba between t tbe Pirates and Cllve Clubs, r The Booretary of tbe hospital aoknewA ledges with thaDks a piroel ol papers from { Mlbi Campbell! Pookiwa, „ Captain Rnsiell will arrive In Halting! c to- day, and will be formally received ai , the railway station by the Mayor bdc other residents. 7 Minion hymn books, to be used In thi D Cathedral, oan be obtained of tbe Dean Is of any of the dlitrlot vldtors, or from thi ib local booktellers.* n Mr Millar, formerly of the Union S.S c Company's Napier branch, but now o _ I Lauooeßton, Tasmania, Is on a visit t , I Napier for a few days' holiday, Q A Rrand Cathollo soolal will be held Ii , tbe Gaiety Theatre on Wedoeaday, Jul; ■■* 27tb, In aid of tbe oonvent beziai Q Tickets may be obtained at A. £, Eagle \n ton's, ie The goodwill of tbe lease of Lioh Inva ig station, 55,000 acres, tbe property of tb 1D V Bank of New Zealand, baa been pui I ohased by Mr W. W. K. M'Lear, wh B I will shortly teke np hla residence then ■'• This property Is about 33 miles froi m Mohaka, and 50 miles from Napier. >d A obildten's bsziar and exhibition i ye dolls, &o , will be held In St. Arjga d, tlce's schoolroom this afternoon an J0 eveolDg by the Mlsseir Hooper, aisiited t the Misses Faulknor. Tbe proceeds wl 18 be devoted to a oharitable purpose, i n, that donbtless the doll baz tar will attrai er a large orowd of juveniles, ly Tbe Hon. W. Kelly, M.L C, and ft »1) R. M'Keozlf), M.H.R., ba^e receive 1( j noiloes from the Police Commlsilon to tt tffeot that all allusions made to them t tbe witneiß Cheoketts, when he appeate er before the Commission, have been c: Bb puoged from tba records. Tbe Comml n. slonera are aailsfnd thnb suoh evident be was Irrelevant to the itqaliy. Tbe rates levied on (hi Mobaka ridlt it, by tba Napier Harbor Board for 18! .< amounted to £392 Ii 9d. and for tbe aevi yens from 1891 the total amounted i 30 £1744 6i 6d. The Guardian atk« :■ >n After all, what benefit has It been n- Moheki? If half thai amoant we: j\, paid on a loan to lojprcvo the Wain lt] river Mobaka would be better served. Lao There are at the present time 231 < o l operative laborers employed in tl . Hawke's Bay survey district, dhtribuli as follows s-Povertyßty: Motu.road, ( P" Maraetaharoad, 4; Gliborne-Walkar II 1 uuaoa. 51 ; Galatea-Walkaremoana, 5 ts, Howke's Bay : Tlratu blook, 14 j Ngi ho paorurn blook, 20 ; Walkoplro blook, 1] . Napier- Walroa-road, 62': Ruahlne bool hB 10. Vft On June 27th wo received a oable fro ea Hobart statlnß that "Two men nami he Webeter and Goodail, procpeotlDg for tl In Mount Lyell Company at Thompst -l e rlvar, are missing. Heavy snowstorn , have /alien, in whloh It U feared thi s '° both perished." By pilvate letter v s n learn that one of the unfortunate mlae oh was Mr William Goodail, youngest son ry Mr John Goodail, formerly engineer to tl K Napier Harbor Board, Wideipread syn d P3thy will be felt for Mr and M i Goodail. Ed To-morrow will ba a special day at S Paul's, when the Sanday-sohool obildrc have tbelr annnal festival. A specli choir of 90 voles will lend the tlngla at both morning acd evening seivlce id Tbe Rev. Mr Dodds will dUconraa upc f. I subjeots appropriate to tbe oooaslon, an gi I nt 3 o'olook io tbe afternoon a oholr i . 60 boys and girls will render the servlt "" ot sorg "Probable Sons," The music 12 quits In keeping with, the very lnteiea is. Ing minion story. Mr Martin will reo es tbe connecting narrative Hymn shee will ba provided at each of tbe services 35 At tbe Wanßanni Magistrate's Cmr William Bolton (who was fitied £170 fc breaohes of the Stock Acb the other da] *» was charged with the theft of 41 sbee Ot belonging fo Beard and Sons, of Mange a mahu, on nr about the 11th of June las h It was thawo In the evldenoe tbat th sLeep aliened to hnve baen stolen wer part of t Ihck of 4290 puiohcaed from M in G. P. Dootelly, ut CrUsoge, Hawke i 2 Biy, In January last. The accused, wh 15 reiDivcd bis defence, was committed t lB teke his trial at the next sltilcg of tb „ Supiemo Court, Bill was allnwcc!, \\a eeif la £50 and one luiety of £50, ' Captain Edwin wired ut noon yestei '■ day :— Wlcd, galo noon from betwee ■8 west aud south^weit and aouth at a' ie places southward of Lyttdton end Hokl it ilka, and after from e'ght to ten hour g from thenoe northward to Napier and Ne' Piymontb, aud strotg westerly wind elEewbere, Barometer rlee soon at v >t plaoea southward of Kalkoura aid Hokl jf ttkß, fall every whero ulao. bnt ilit.'tg afbc ;g from eight to ten hours, Sja Inoretue o all wesfirn onset, aod heavy on eiat oobg ■' south of East Cape. Tides good oi '> western ooast of North Island, high o: :■ east ooast south of Eaat Cape, moderat y all other plaoes. c Tn an artlole on "Ministers and th< a Police Commission," tbe Caibtebuxl ,t Prets remarks :— " Tbero was no noiiatl rutinnal reason whatever why Mr S ddot ° and Mr Thompson Bhould uot hava glvai d evldenoe upon tbe faota of the case ; ace c after the allegations which have b;ei r made most men, if free from any sense o: blame in tbe matter, would have eagerl] ' sought aa Interview of vindicating themselves before the pabia, The 8 Prealet has shown hlm»6lf ready enoogti n to tvsrride coEatttutlonal precedenti I) when they stand In the way of lometbioja t be wants to do, Hit latest aoblcvameni dhows that be oan ba a rare stickler foi • constltatlonal propriety — even to the ex- • tent of creating a preoedent- whoo there 1 is somethiog whloh he wishes to avoid. A mob of 90 borses— old "crooks, 1 oollected from various parts cf tbe dlsI trlot, who have been worn cut In the [ oeivtca of maD, and to whom death must ) oimo bb a hßppy release from a weary pxlstinoe— wtra driven to tbe GUboine . Fretzlcg Company's works on Toeidty ! mornitig, and there Blaughtered. Tbelr h)lr, btdea, and hoofs are marketable I oommcditlea, and tbelr cucaßed ate to be oonveited into mannie. Mobs of deorepU i sheep and cattle have teen similarly dealt wltb, and It is olaimed that is i« better that they should be co turned to profitable account than that they shonld continue to eat np pasture In thedletrlot which should be feeding sound and healthy stcok —P,B Herald, At a meeting of the Auckland Institute last week, come exhauttlve notes on the vo.'c»Doea ot the Tanpo district were read. Tbe onthor, Dr. Frledlaander, gave a craphlo description of the eroptlnu of Te Mare, wbioh he witnessed in 1596, end the phenomena conneoted therewith. He oame to the conclusion tbat the water in tbe lake on Ruapebu percolated from the crater into the river Waogaehu. The water In the lake and In tbe river had tbe same characteristics, being tnrbld and bitter. Ho expresses tbe hope that theio wonders of nature, so Interesting to tbo man of solenao and tbe tonrlet, may be tnado more ecceislblo by tbe Government, An interesting dlßonsilon ensued, In which the gentlemen who took part agreed with Dr. Frtedleander'a observations and theories as to the river Wangsehu having lta origin in tbe lake on Rnapebu. Some neighbors have teoourse to peculiar methods occasionally to vent their spleen. In a certain Hawke's Bay special settlement not long ago there was a neighbors' quarro', the result being that one of tho parties was bound over to keep the peaoe. Tbe seqnel Is. told In the ! following D&tbetlo story In a letter read at | the meeting of tbe Land Bjard yesterday :— " Aa the outoorae of a Court oase they removed the pig sty from a, site nearly lo tbe centre of tbelr seotion, where It oould do no harm to anyone, to another oppodte oar kitchen window, and barely two chains away from it. Close to this pigsty Is the artesian well, from wbioh we get our water supply, and we feat tbat It will seriously sffeob It, Alroady ( even In wlntor, tbo smell of the sty i« almost unbearable, and they use our boundary feuce for one side of the p'B yitrd." Uufortuuotely in this pretty iqaabble tbe Land Board eou'd afford no relief.

The express reached Napier about an boar late last nlßht. The engine bioke down beyond Wood?llle. Mr Jobn Anderson had hard luok with the merino iheep he took to the Sydney sales. They were very roughly handled on the voyßße, to begin with. Then (he sheep are not tod In pens In the open air, as la New Zealand, bat in warehouses six or seven stories blp,b. paoked from basement to roof. Home of theie warehouses bad several thousand iheep. Bat Mr Andersan'c eleven iami were lent to an out-oMhe way warebouie where tbsro were only %'l sheep, all told, and consequently only a more handful of buyers were present. Some of tbe other eleven were Imported Vermont sheep, bat the highest bid was only B;db, at whloh the tnlmsl was pasted 10, being afterwards sold at 80^qb, Mr Anderson let bis go ai an average of 3jJ B 8» but many who saw them afterwards appraised their value ad more than three times what was glvec Mr Andenon Is determined to try again next year, and intends Jo take good oare to Bet Into o, good position. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Measrs Cohen and Larße, J.'jP.i Thomas WH«on was remanded for four days for drunkenness.— Edward Dowllng was charged with havlDg on the sth July 1(1) imposed on James Gillesplo by a false pratsno?, and (2) with having stolen a packet of teething powders and a box of headaohe onre, the property of James ttobert Gllleiple, Tbe acoased, who said be was drunk at the time, was lecteneen ' to three months' Imprlionment with haid labor. He waa farther oharged with bavlog stolen a white counterpane, valued at 1 14s, the property of Mrs A. E. Faulkcor, I The acoaeed was also lentenoed to three months' imprisonment on this charge, to too concurrently with the previous one. On a itlll further charge of having bur' glarlously entered and stolen goods from ' tbe premises of B. 8. Hatohlnson, thfl accused was, on the application of Ser« uenrst MKohell, remanded till Wednesday s next,— William Edwards, was oharged t with having stolen a collie dog valued ab i £12, the property of Thomas Norrls. It I appeared that accused and Norrls had oome to Napier by the same steamer, the dog following Edwards to Fetane, and c when arrested at Taiawera accused still had the dog In his possession. Tbe aoouied said he could not get rid of the '■ dog, and so treated it aa bis own until he " oould return It. The Bench, after hearing 0 the evldenoe, felt satisfied that the aooused did rot intend to steal the dog, n and dlsmiiaed tbe oase. y Tbe annual ball of tbe Port Atrailrl '• Swimming Club was beld in Stuart's Hall '■ last evening, and passed off very successfully, About 80 oonples were present. it The h»U was very prettily deoorated with ie fhgß, &0,, a prominent plaoe being given r. to the Union Jack, Stars and Stripes, and io the New Zaaland flic, the three c being plaoed together ai an emblem m of the federation of the AngloSaxon race. Several particularly fine oil paintings, comprising landscape, 01 flower, and animal studies, admirably ", painted by two young ladles of tbe port, ;d who are pnpils of the Convent School, >f also adorned tbe walls, These, with tbe "I many pretty dresses worn by the ladlei, 80 formed a vary attractive scene when ot dancing was In progress. The floor waa In good order, and tbe mnslo supIr plied by Miss H. L, Stuart (piano) sd and Mr C. Allen (vlollo) was excellent. he tbe youthful planlate acquitting herself by exceedingly well, and Bhe also played ft »d "Washington Post "as an extra dance, x- Extra dancei were also played la good Is style by Mines Condon, Head,- and oo Smart. Messrs W. Dugleby and A. Gliding gave every satlifaotlon bb M'i,O. Tbe Buppor provided by Mrs Cojdon was ™ quite np to the mual high standard 97 already attained by this caterer. Mr R. Bn Paflett, president of the Swimming Club. t0 Id a brief and pithy speech, expressed ~ pleasure at seeing oo large an aisemblage, t0 who he hoped wonid all enjoy them--18 Belves. The present was the sixth annnal Oft ball beld by the olnb, and the popularity they had obtained proved tbe suooess 00 of tbe olnb In tbe dlreotlon of fostering be what waa not only a manly sport, bnt ft ed mont bealtbful recreation, the knowledge B • of whloh shonld be made essential la the fl. rising generation, He ventured to say 13 that there was not one lad on theSplh s^ over the age of 8 years who oould 1 ■ not swim, and though that might k, be considered a bold statement to maka yet it war a true one, and the formation of the Port Ahurlrl Swimming °\ Clnb bad been greatly Instrumental Id ? a bringing about that result. He would 6 remark that tbe annnal reunions, such as on they were then er>joylog, were not got up ns for the purpoie ot making money, bnt to ey brlDg the young people together and VB enable them to spend a thoroughly !r ! pleasant evening, and be tinsted that , their efforts would be Buooessful, and that 6 they 'would again next year see the same "' happy faoes that were present thai even* " ing. „ Congregational Church services to. '* morrow (Sunday), lo Foresters' Hall, "} Dlokens'Street, morning 11, evening 7. f Preacher, Rev. H. W. J. Miller.* 's "The Peerless Preacher," 1 sermon by jo Rev. 6 D. Cox to- morrow evening, ]d Baptist Church, Tennyson«street, Ser. of vioes at 11 and 7.*