LOCAL AND GENERAL. |

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8114, 8 November 1904, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL. |

At the Wellington Magistrate's Court on I Monday convictions were recorded in four | cases in which city milk dealers wi-ru ' charged with having Bold adulterated milk or milk containing leas than the prescribed quantity of solids. Farmers are still keenly on the watch with respect to milking machines. One farmer in the district has put in the Lawrence Kennedy machine, and we hear is getting very good results from it. Another, Mr Buchanan, formerly of Kakaramea, who has recently taken up part of Mr George McLean's farm near the Waingongoro, has received very satisfactory assurances from relatives in Victoria as to the suitability of the machines. The | writer of one letter, who resides in the western district of Victoria, and is a well-known farmer in a large way of business, and in no way associated with any agency, says : "The machines are doing very well with me, and I am perfectly satisfied with them. Half a dozen farmers here have put in plants. I put in my plant to milk 70 cows, and it cost me £101. With two machines it will milk 70 cows in 2\ hours. Two men can start them, and when about half through it < would need a lad to help yard up and ! take away the milk. The machine leaves very little strippings, but you want to strip in case of accidents. You bail up two cows, on each side, and then the machine goes on a bucket between them, and you do two cows at once. When you are finished with them shift your machine to two fresh cows, stripping the other two, and so on. You want about 7ft. bails, the two cows standing one on each side. This is a great saving in shed room, as where it was the general rule to have the bail for each cow sft. 9in. or 6ft. two go into a bail a foot wider. The greatest job is to get the old cows to go in on the reverse side." In another letter the writer says : "The milking machines are doing really well. You can milk 60 cows easily in two hours. When they have short teats it just suits them grand. They strip the cows cleaner than most hand-milkers if the teats are not too long and coarse. I have had the machines three months now, and they have been no both at all to me; and I have not a sore-teated cow in the mob." A good name, like "McCormick" is ' rather to be chosen than great riches. F. J. Wrigley, Hawera. — Advt. FISHING TACKLE. F. J. Wrigley announces the arrival of a very extensive assortment of Bar tie; t and Sons' fishing tackle. An especially fine assortment of wooden rods, inclui'o< sulit cane, green-heart, lanoewood iincl hickory, at all prices from £4 to 7s M. Bristol steel rods a speciality, 10, 11, and 12 feet long. These rods are justly celebrated throughout this district. A very large assortment of flies, including seveial new varieties. New minnows, new casts new traces, everything new. Inspection invited. Bartlett's best casts, at Is, 13 3d, Is 6d each, or ss, 6s, and 7s 6d the tmlfdozen. Flies, minnows, casts, etc., sent post free. Postal orders receive prompt attention, and must be accompanied with cash*. Rods prepared by competent workmen. Fishing licenses issued. F. .1. WRIOLEY. Hawera.

> The Hawera Star will not be issued on Wednesday, King's Birthday. The Lands Department notify that the Bickerstatfe settlement at Kaipara, Auckland, will be open for application on lease on and after Monday. 28th inst. ' A Christchurch telegram says that the New Zealand Athletic As&ociation lias received a message from the Agent-Gen-eral, stating that Duffey and Shrubb arc willing to come to New Zealand providing their passage and hotel expenses are paid. The Bruce Herald says .Hansard serves many useful purposes. As a certain cure for insomnia it is infallible, but as a record of what members want their constituents to believe they say its infallibility is not beyond reproach! Mr J. Grant, of Taiporohenui, lost a very valuable stud horse on Saturday night. A post mortem disclosed the fact that the horse was badly infestea with the bot, and was suffering from inflammation of the lung. "I was told the other day that a corpse was carried a long distance in a butter van, which was used for the carriage of butter the following day," declared & speaker at the meeting of the Farmers' Executive at Christchurch the other day. The number of schools and other public buildings destroyed by fire during the past ten years was 129, the total amount of loss caused by such destruction being £60,009. Public buildings, with a few exceptions, are not under any insurance fund. At the Wellington Supreme Court on Monday Joseph Burfit was sentenced to six years' imprisonment for indecent assault on a male. W. Halford, who had pleaded guilty to stealing £18 from his mates, was admitted to probation for 12 months. So far there are only two cases set down for hearing at Friday s sitting of the District Court. Public Trustee v. Hawera Electric Light Company is a claim for £653 10s compensation for running lines through native lands and loss of water. The other case is an application by W. H. Gibson, of Stratford, for discharge from bankruptcy. Mr Eyre Kenny, deputy District Court Judge, will preside. The Taranaki News reports that the 11-year-old son of Mr E. Elliott, clerk n Messrs Sole Bros., met with a distressing accident on Saturday morning. He had placed a giant cracker in a stove, and went up to examine it just as^the explosion occurred, receiving the charge full in the face. As a result the sight of both eyes was lost, though on Monday the swelling and inflammation had abated considerably, and Dr McCelland, who is attending, is in hopes of saving the sight. The marble statue of Sir George Grey ordered for Auckland has arrived in that city. It represents the deceased statesman as he appeared after the famous electoral campaign of 1879, and according to the Auckland Star is an admirable likeness, which will vividly recall him to the memory of those who knew him intimately about that period. The statue is to be erected at the junction of Queen, Wakefield, and Grey streets. A short time ago Mr D. Buchanan, formerly of Kakaramea. now of Waingongoro, who is a great fancier of Ayrshires, sent to a relative in Victoria a bull bred by Mr S. W. Luxford, of Palineiston North. Fie has just received word that at the Colac Show, one of the principal fixtures in Western Victoria, the animal took first and champion. This was the bull's first appearance in a public* show ring. There was very little business done at the Court this morning. Several cases were reported as settled or adjourned. W. S. Moore applied for a judgment summons against A. Watson for the amount of £4 16s lOd; £3 15s had been paid. The remainder was ordered to be paid forthwith, in default a week's imprisonment, warrant to be suspended provided two instalments are paid within six weeks. Homeward bound on a recent evening, a local bookmaker paid £80 to a man whom he met en route. On reaching his house, he changed his clothes, and left his trousers, still containing £30, in an upstairs room while he had supper downstairs. During the time he was refreshing himself, some one entered the upstairs room, took the £30, and left tne trousers. Two valuable diamond rings, in another pocket of the garment, were overlooked. —Wellington Tost. The insurances on the public buildings destroyed by fire at Collingwood, are distributed as follows: —Norwich Union £2210, North Queensland £450, Liverpool, and London and Globe £1600, Australian Alliance £280, South British £1740, Sun £1300, total £10,100. Besides these E. Riley's store, etc., was insured in tho Northern Office, but the amount is not ascertained. Twenty-one years ago a large portion of the township was burned down and many of the present sufferers were burnt out then. The Mayor of Nelson has telegraphed sympathy, and offers of pecuniary assistance have been made. rr^vo lllenlieim residents ha/ye invented a novel fire escape. A metal drum, about the size of an ordinary oil drum, is fixed to the roof or parapet of the building, and an endless wire rope, coiled two or three times round a revolving' shaft protruding from the top of the drum hanes down within reach of the window or other outlet. The escapee catches hold of either the bare rope or handle bars, which may be fixed on, and his weight unwinds the rope and brings him at an even and safe rate of speed to the ground. The descent is regulated by a propeller forming part of the revolving shaft inside the drum, which is filled with oil or water, the former for preference. The resistance of the liquid against blades of the propeller causes the shaft to rise and exert, by means of a brake, a pressure of the rope in accordance with the descending weight, so that the uncoiling of the wire is securely governed. As many as six men may entrust themselves at one time and make the descent at an easy rate of speed. There was not a large attendance at the Opera House on Monday evening to hear Fielding's Entertainers, but the audience was in good humor and generously applauded the various items submitted. In the class to which the company belongs — that which finds itself able to tour the smaller townships in country districts — Fielding's probably holds the premier position, but as a combination it cannot, of course, be classed with the best vaudeville that has visited Hawera. For versatility Carl Collier appeared to stand away ahead of any other member of the company. His banjo playing was good, his comic singing effective, his dancing and acrobatics enjoyable, and his hat throwing and balancing, despite a few mistakes, decidedly clever. Mr Davidson is the possessor of a pleasing tenor voice and was appreciated, while Mr J. Collins supplied the black-face fun. A dramatic sketch, "My Partner," was a rather tedious performance. Miss Belle Francis, in her first number, was very indifferent, but in the second part of the programme sang with more success. The thing the serio comic, Miss Brandt, lacked most was voice. Her conception and style were satisfactory, bot the singing was weak. The boy Huia Morton sang with surprising voice for so youthful a performer, and was enthusiastically recalled. The most pleasing part of the programme was its strict observance of propriety .and in that respect the show is one which all may be recommended to visit with confidence. Even the cake walk exhibition, although regarded with alarm when suggested at dances, was very amusing, clever and altogether inoffensive as presented by Mr A. Fielding and Miss Noela Herman. Farmers are requested to examine thr Farmers' Favorite Dril|,before purchasing other machines. This drill is th* most up-to-date machine made with frame and axle of.the best steel, combined with the simplest and most effective turnip feed on the market, patent steel tubes;, and star manure feed, which is the only reli able feed yet introduced. Importers, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Blr»fcford,-~A<iTt.