The Star. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1888. NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1839, 27 January 1888, Page 2

The Star. (PUBLISHED DAILY .) FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1888. NEWS AND NOTES.

A match has been arranged at Wanganui between E. J. Ellis and C. Oliver for £5 a side, the distances being 150, 200, and 400 yards ; the match to come off within a fortnight.

The Victorian Government Gazette of a recent date contains the regulations for the distribution of .£20,000 granted to agricultural societies of that colony ; the amount to be paid to each society being a sum equal to two-thirds of the amount paid away in prizes not exceeding £25 each, and excluding any amount received from the Government, on condition that the sum does not exceed that raised by members' subscriptions and private donations. No society located within 20 miles of another society shall be entitled to participate in the vote, unless the sum awarded and paid away in prizes amounts to £100.

The Rangitikei Advocate says: — "Two of the most important questions now agitating the public mind in New Zealand are : Who is to be our next AgentGeneral, and who is to be our next Premier ? We fancy that the following answers will be tolerably near the mark : — The successor to Sir Dillon Bell will be Major Atkinson ; the successor to Major Atkinson in his present position will be Sir John Hall. The above answers are not furnished 'on authority, 1 but we believe they are pretty near the mark." One guess is, we think, a long way from the mark. Sir John Hall, as Premier, could not, in the present House, command thirty votes. That was shown clearly enough at the caucuses held prior to the formation of the present Ministry.

At the annual meeting of the North Wales Liberal Federation held recently, referring to the drink question, Sir G. Trevelyan, M.P., in the course of a long speech, said : — •• We will give the people, who have learned by bitter experience the difficulties of that immense question, the control of the liquor traffic. On my estate there has been no public-house for thirty years. The consequence is that there has grown up a race of people who are as different as possible from those who live where drink is sold. There is no pauperism, and there is absolutely no discontent with the system. Thirty years ngo everybody used to blame my predecessor for his policy, but now envy the neighborhood. Why should not the people be allowed to do for themselves what I and mine have done for them."

The Waikato farmers have found out that the wholesale slaughter of small birds in which they have indulged in for some years was a mistake. When scattering the poison along the highways and byeways, over stubble and meadow land, or swaggering about with a double-barrel Bhot gun, they did not, or would not, remember the time when their grain crops and clover used to be ravaged by the omnivorous caterpillar, which came like an Egyptian plague and blighted the country in all directions ; but a fresh taste of the terror has awakened them from their dream of security. They Bee now tbat it is better to let the chirping sparrow and the roystering lark take their little tribute than to hand the whole concern over to the tender mercies of the phlegmatic caterpillar. — Auckland Bell.

A " modern dairy farm " is described by Inspector John Taylor in a report to the "Victorian Central Board ot Health. This farm belongs to Mr. J. S. Morgan, near Eppmg. Three hundred cows are milked, and the milk sent to Melbourue twice a day. They are pastured on 6000 acres of leasehold land, on which are extensive buildings, with lofts for the storage of bran and chaff, and a boiler and engine used for cutting chaff, and crushing oats, peas, and mangolds, with a circular saw for cutting wood. There is an iron tramway for conveying the cows' food from the mixing-room to the cowshed, with turntables to branch off to the different milking sheds, which are laid with brick, set with cement, and pitched. The yards are pitched, and constantly scraped. Two large tanks conserve 60,000 gallons of water supplied from the iron roof of the buildings, and drawn out for use in the refrigerating room by a Tangye pump. Every milk can is cleansed by a steam jet passed up through a bench, where the men turn and rinee them out in cold water.

Mr. E. Ellery Gilbert, pianoforte tuner, etc., notifies date of visiting this district. Ordeiß may be left at Mr. Jones.

Writing in the Contemporary Review on the Central Asian military problem, General Sir John Adye shows that Russia is weak, and scattered over a barren continent, amidst hostile races and far from her resources. On the other hand, England is strong and concentrated ; strong in the prosperity, contentment, and loyalty of tbe priuces and races in India ; strong in finance, resources, and supplies ; safe by land and sea, and with a power of rapid expansion and advance which is altogether denied to Russia. England has a wide and ample choice of routes by which to advance in the event of war. Her armed hosts and those of her allies would ere long be in direct march for the heart of Central Asia, and the power of Russia in that part of the world would speedily crumble away.

"Puff" in the Wellington Press does not appear to appreciate shark stories : — That's a terrible shark story from Sydney ! Burke, the well-kaown pugilist, had a very narrow escape ! Blow Burke, the wellknown pugilist ! Who cares ? If Atack has nothing better to send than that rubbish, he'd better spare the newspapers the expense of the telegrams and the public the trouble of reading them ! Oh, but it's very thrilling ! An enormous shark tried to swallow Burke, boat and all ! Burke made tracks but the voracious monster kept alongside the frail craft! Cuss the voracious monster and cuss the trail craft too ! Cuss all such penny-a-lining! The boat opened out and let Burke into the water, but the shark passed Burke and swallowed the boat for choice ! The voracious monster drew the line at a beastly pug ! Showed his good taste 1 Still, I'm sorry I You don't seem to appreciate Atack's efforts to please in the way of sensational telegrams ! No, I don't I I know the public are making waterworks of the Press Association ! Making waterworks of them ! What do you mean ? Why damming them, of course 1

The Gaulois newspaper has discovered yet •' another of those Englishmen, how they are bizarre I' 1 This time it is Sir William Draggs, who, it appears, hailed a cab at Brighton about a year ago, and told the driver to take him to the pier, eff which " Sir Draggs " had his yacht. He told the cabman to wait for him, meaning to cruise about off Brighton for an hour or two ; but, changing his mind, he determined to go round the world. The cabman waited and waited, and finding that his " fare " didn't come back, he obtained leave from the municipality to erect a shelter for himself and his horse. Here he waited for more than a twelvemonth, when the other day " Sir Draggs " returned with his yacht, and was not at all surprised to find the cabman waiting for him. " How much do I owe you?" he said ; and upon the cabman handing him a bill for j-600, he tore a cheque out of bis book, filled it up for the amount, and told the man to drive to his hotel. To illustrate the extortionate character of cabmen, the Gaulois adds that the man asked " Sir Drasgß " for his fare from the pier to the hotel.

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