The Star. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) MONDAY, MAY 21, 1888. NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1935, 21 May 1888, Page 2

The Star. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) MONDAY, MAY 21, 1888. NEWS AND NOTES.

The Gore Dairy Factory is evidently more successful than our local concerns. They have disposed of the balance of their season's make of cheese, about twelve tons, to a Brisbane buyer at s£d per lb, f.o.b. at the Bluff, and another ten tons could have been Bold at this very satisfactory figure. The company will pay a handsome dividend this year, and will also make a return of one penny per gallon on the milk supplied to them during the season.

The extent to which natural gas is displacing coal as fuel in Pennsylvania is amazing. In Alleghanuy County alone 20,000 tons of coal a day have been put out of consumption owing to the use of natural gas. The result has been an enormous development in all the industries of the State. The furnace capacity of 12 steel mills in Pittsburg having risen 1164 tons a day. All other metal industries show 6imiliar figures, and the glass trade, to which natural gas is especially applicable, has in some departments doubled its production.

The aquatic writer of the Australian Star, who is singularly well informed, wrote on May 7 :—": — " lamin a position to state that all the preliminaries for Teemer to visit Australia to meet Peter Kemp, should the latter be successful in defeating Hanlan, were ready last week. It only required a message to that effect, and his passage would be booked right off. The money is at his command, and a challenge is expected in Sydney hourly. That's just as it should be, and he will be accommodated as soon as he is ready." A match for the championship and £500 a-side, to be rowed on the Nepean, has since been arranged.

Mr. JBradlaugh may claim to have achieved a genuine Parliamentary success in carrying his Oaths Bill by a majority of ICO through ■ the House of Commons. Those who remember the stormy and embittered proceedings of a few years ago, which arose out of Mr. Bradlaugh's attempts to take his seat in Parliament without being sworn in, and resulted in his exclusion from the House for several years, will marvel at the calm and sober, not to say dull, tone which marked the debate that preceded the second reading of bis bill on the 14th of last month. So determined, apparently, was the House to make an end of the question that, after a few members had spoken the cloture was resorted to by 334 votes to 50. — Australasian.

From authentic accounts the land which is being surveyed inland of the Tongaporutu river towards the main trunk line is exceedingly good. It is said that from Putiki to the old "Waitara depot the country is very broken, with clumps of passable tawa bush thereon, but from the depot to the railway line the land is first class, there being really thousands of acres of very excellent land that would astonish the public of Taranaki, and make them sincerely wish it was open for selection by having the line or road through it. This land would be tapped by the Stratford route. In this country Messrs. Holmes and Adams' party are rapidly making a pack track, some thirty miles of which is completed, and the upper waters of the Waitara are beiDg spanned by a bridge, some 80 feet long and 4 wide. The pack track is near completion, and the party will be on the railway line in about a month. Mr. Holmes will survey towards Auckland, and Mr. Adams towards Stratford, from which point Mr. Eoss is now surveying. From casual information, the parties that are out are having a pretty rough time of it, on account of some of them being so inconveniently situated as not to get supplies of provisicna regularly.-Taranaki Herald.

In an article on the " Hardships of Progress," the Australasian says :— In 1881 the freight of a ton of wheat, from Calcutta to Ltndon, was 71s 3d, and in 1885 it was only 275. Thus in four years the rate fell by the almost incredible sum of 44s 3d, principally, to all appearance, on account of the new inventions in marine architecture. Another equally astonishing instance may be cited. In 1850, 14,500 pounds of coal were required to do the work that is now performed by 300 pounds ; so that the same expenditure on coal will enable a shipper to carry nearly 50 times the cargo. The statements made on the application of science to trade by Sir L. Playfair in the Contemporary Review. " A cube of coal," he sayß, " which passes through a ring the size of a shilling will drive one ton of cargo for two miles." Yet such an assertion is borne out by hard and dry figures. The rates of transit across the Atlantic have fallen in six years from Did per bushel in the case of grain to Id, and in the case of bacon and lard from 45s to 7s 6d per ton. Now, ie is obvious that the Victorian farmer cannot possibly control the Atlantic freights, which are determined by competition.

Messrs. Budge and McCutchan sell stock at Oeo to-morrow.

We give a reminder of the auction sale of drapery, etc., to-morrow, by Messrs. Nolan, Tonks, and Co., on behalf of the Melbourne Drapery and Clothing Coy.

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