LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 8 April 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The exports from Patea during March were :— Butter, 1776cwt, value £8705; cheese, 10,497cwt, value £31,937; frozen beef, 476cwt, value £667; tallow, 11 tons, value £225; wool, greasy, 391,0001b5, value £8650; total value, £50,184.

.A telegram from Christchurch says:— Dr. F. Goulbum. Gibson., of Chr^stehurch, states tha-t the flask of whisky which, according to the Haweea Star, was recently found on the summit of Ruapehu, was Jeft by himself in 1894. He made the ascent in .January -t>f that year with B&i others, among whom was Dr. P. Marshall.-.,

The Customs revenue at Patea during March totalled £905 2s lid. The amount collected for the corresponding month of 1907 was £708 15s 2d.

The Stock Inspector in charge of the West Coast district, Mr Deem, is endoavoring to obtain irom the dairy factories in. hie territory some estimate of the decrease in the butter-fat value per cow as a result of the lute drought.

The Rev. R. Tahupotiki Haddon, who has been for six weeks touring the King Country and the Waikato, and also Bay of Islands and Hokianga districts, has now gone on a kaianga- to kaianga visit as far as Kai Iwi, and will afterwards do the fame up the coast as far as Mokau.

Mr R. McDonald, who- for some time past had been connected with Messrs Welsh and Ryan's office, left Hawera this morning for his home in Palmearston North. A number of friends assembled at the railway station' to bid him goodbye.

The mail train ifor New Plymouth on Tuesday evening was delayed at ManutaJii for several minutes, having to wait fox the usual 4.27 goods- train, which waa late in leaving Hawera on account of the large number of loaded trucks (thirtyeight) it had to >take on here.

A scourge in the form of blight of the ordinary type has overtaken practically the whole of the turnip crops in the Taieri Plain, and many acres of the crop have been absolutely ruined. Should the coming winter be a severe one (says an exchange) rt will go very hard with farmers, more especially those who have depended upon their turnip crops for the winter feeding of cattle.

Jj^rom, Messrs Haalenstein Bros., Ltd. (New Zealand Clothing Factory) we have a novelty plaster case. It: is quite, a new idea. The plaster in built up in the form of a dainty lotus flower, cacti petal r .of" which is easily detached and. Ie suitable for the various outs and scratches one gets. The pieces- of plaster are antiseptic, of different sizes, and of - a shape which makes them readily adhesive. The H.B. Company are distributing these useful novelties amongst the ; r customers.' *.-.

An enthusiastic meeting of persons interested in the St. John Ambulance Brigade was heEL in the Fire Brigade Hall on Tuesday night. There were twenty people present, and Mr D. fiprrell, Superintendent, presided. After the objects of the Brigade had, been, explained all present enrolled themselves as members of the Hewera division. The ensuing season promises to be most successful. The classes for men commence on April 28 and for women on May 5.

Picturesque Nelson is surely on. the fair way towards -losing the title of "Sleepy Hollow, ' associated with it for many years. In point of fact ite city fathers have been for same .time very wide awake. Some two or three months ago freezing works with a capital of between £14,000 and £20,000 were successfully launched; the other day, if- it is remembered rightly, a comprehensive drainage scheme was adopted ; and now the City Council has decided to confer with the Fire Brigade to place it upon a thoroughly efficient footing. At the meeting of the Council to investigate the affairs it was stated that the brigadesmem were efficient, but the appliances were out of date and totally inadequate for a big fire. It was also decided to write to town clerks of several boroughs, including Haw>era, to enquire as to the working of the Fire Boards in the various localities.

It is a noticeable coincidience that B. R. Wise .goes out of New South Wales Parliamentary life just as ,his legislative masterpiece is destroyed py. his; political enemies (observes the Bulletin). Mr Wise, when he was Attorney-General, puib high-pressure energy into his advocacy of compulsory orbit/ration. The Premier and other members -of the Government in which ho was Attorney-General barely .understood the rudiments of- the Bill, and liked it as little as they understood it; but they gave him his way, and as he expounded, explained, and argued they eyed him much as the hen eyed her ducklings when they took to the waiter. When Mr Wd&e forced the measure through the Lower House his work was only half doiue. The Upper House detested the very mention, of the Arbitration Bill, and it hadn't a. friend there. So Mr Wise resigned his seat in the Assembly, and induced the Government to sand him up as a Legislative Councillor <t>o beard the lions' tin their den. He disturbed their slumbers and, made them miserable till Be dragged a Bill from them, not as perfect as he desired/ but the best one possible in the circumstances. That was nearly eight .years ago. Now the Act goes overboard, and Mr Wise is dismissed from the New South Wales Upper House for protracted absence without leave.

The butcher-bird (writes a country correspondent to the Sydney* Bulletin) is the only Australian bird which takes thought for the morrow. It keeps a store of slaughtered wrens and tomtits in any old hollow it can find, and looks up the pantry whenever the commissariat department requires attention. Once, when with a fencing party, a couple of butcher-birds came round the camp and got quite tame. One morning, we amueed ourselves by cutting up some raw meat into junks and hurling the same in the direction of the butchers. They fielded them like Syd Gregory, and flew with them into the scrub. In a few moments they returned, and threw more until the supply was exhausted. Commenting offensively on tEeir greediness, we started ior work. A hundred yards from camp was a, tree which had boon wrecked in a high wind, leaving a spimtery break. The splinters were tastefully decorated with the fragments of beef. Th supply didn't all disappear for nearly a week. During that time other birds occasionally came and 1 looked at the meat, but that was all they did. The butcher-birds were watchimg their stock of hung provender, and nothing i smaller than a lion would have taken it. To-morrow (Thursday) Messrs Jackson and Co. will hold a clearing sale of the Gower Estate sheep, horses, and implemenfcs. Particulars are advertised in our columns. A" coach will meet the first morning trains at Patea for the convenience of buyers. You need not suffer with pains in the chest after eating. Take Pearson's PeptpfhloT. '-,:,-'•" No one need now suffer the agonizing pains of sciatica and acute rheumatism, as qnicV relief may W had by, applying Chamberlain's Pain Balm. -This fact hns been clearly r demonstrated in many thousands.' of _-case«.-i- -This liniment relieves the pain (and malces sleep .and rest possible, is alone worth many times its cost. For sale by W. K. Wallace, chemist, and H. J5. Harris, grocer. — Advt.

Mr D. D. Hyde, Government PoultryExpert, slated to a meeting of poultry raisers at Christchurch the other day that no fewer than 173",OO0,000 eggs were consumed, in the Dominion last year.

Among the many evils following on the laite drought (6ays tho Wairere correspondemb of the Wairafapa Times) is thai the shortness of feed has made it necessary ; to destroy most of the newlyborn calves, on account of the mothers being too weak to rear them. The,", weekly, parade of the Hawera Rifles was well . attended on Tuesday mgh€, Lieut. ; Hiivtz being in command.' Detailed orders;, etc., in connection with' the Easter ; manoeuvres were given, Between 20 and 30 members propose taking part. *: ; ... - - Many farmers'" at Nireaha, Masterton district, are wanting grass seed sowers, but all surplus, hands seem to be ©ngag--cd, and most <w*<tb&' farmers (says a.Masterteoi. paper) are; jplodding on singlehandted, acre - by ■ '• acre, - consoling themselves with the -tt^pe, of a good season next year to make, up for the one just passing.'. ~.\ _ j Speaking recently at Shannon, Mr W. H. Field, M.P»,a- «»ppw?ter of the Go* vernment, VjpproMl JprincSpfefjioi a salary for ~tHe 'leader of 4he 'Opposffaon. Mr iield stated that: it was highly de« sinible that Mr Maseey 7 should be paid { a salary of, say, : £iOJE)Or- -& f -=yearj ■ and ' should be provided with, a 'secretary. There was no man in Ne^sr Zealand\who worked harder than Mr Massey. '- * is stated that- tlw-prioe of^ meat in Masterton is"toobipJoye^aV\ Or ..Yarr (writes the Age) intends taking no further action in connection with the establishment of a. municipal butchery. ' He had, proposed to 'either induce the Borough .Council, to- take- <up a retail butchery project, ; or n to forma 00-operative butchery, but now that the prices are to be lowered both projects are to be held ,over,. v „-,*- t l It is reportixi -that Mr W. Ritchie, CHadrxnan of the Waitotara County Council, intends contesting the Patea seat in the (^jjositiboi "mterests. - The Patea - Press that a meetmg of delegates, from the various distriote of the) electorate will be held within the next fortnight to select an Opposition candidate. < It further, •andorstands that amongst .the* names to bo submitted to the meeting will.bb those of Measrs W. Ritchie,, J..,; Driver, S. Forsyth/ 0. Hawken, R. H. Nolan, and G. V. Pearce. Considerable interest has been caused by the oomoimcement of Mr Burke, of Cambridge, that through $c actions of radium Upon sierillsed gelatin he ~h&s produced what appeared to be living germs, to which he gave the name of radlobes. More xeoant experiments indicate that radiobes are not in any sense liviaig. things, 'and thai they are not even a product of radio-activity. JMr W. A. B. Rudge . shows -that they are precipitates of am insoluble sulphate due to the presence of and that their "growth" is simply a chemical process. Good testimony In favor of Soutkland'a muich T malignod climate is afforded by 'Mr Madlcot* Richardson, says the Wyndham Herald. He has a Black Hamburg grape vine growing <m the northern side of his house, and Ahe grapes are growing in bunches up to 41b or 51b. The vine has a history. The late Dr. Richardson brought «i vine from Cheltenham, England, an 1851, and from this , parent vine Mr K-ichari&pn, in 1882 brought from D.utiediii a propagated cutting. Since this vine began to bear -Mr Richardson, has gathered ripe fruit everjtt •• season but;oney . \m

The fish most useful to man is perhaps the cod, and it is one of the moot prolific of the, denizens of the sea. As an article of diet it is. .a most important addition to food supplies. The tongue is regarded as a delicacy, and the liver gi^os as the oil which, is so much used as a and a food in [consumption and all wasting complaints. Th* , Norwegians give obojs' heads mixed with marine plants to cowe to -increase,, their . yiejebof milk; the. Icelanders give the banes to their cattle; in KamecHatka >do^ > jMe e t!ed-<.<>n them; and in icy "waiters codfish are frequently dried and used tm fuel.; - Naturalists conß'der the „ elephant's trunk 'the mki'rVelloub'" miracle of Na#jre. ft cottains^oyer, 4000- muscles— a gr^at many more than are found in the ontiirje human body. By -aid <pt these muscles the trunk, will uproot trees or gather grass, lift a cannon or a nut, kill a man or brush; off {a fly; i. It is as useful as a hand with all. its fingers to supply the elephant /with" food, -and; being hollow, is used as a suction pump. No other - animal has a single member or organ so perfect and co useful. The German Empire (writes the Westminster Gazette) began life in: 1871 wfth £200,000,000 -to ite cred^—the wax inctemmty received from France. Of this there is something left— the war treasure of £6,000,000 Rocked -up in the,, fortress of Spandau ; but there is a debt of £200,000,000, - there has been a ' deficit! regularly _ since 1900, and, besides the claims of the new navy, there are others, hardly # less urgent,; for # purely" pacific ends. ,No doubt^he JEmpire^haiß, or soon " wilL-have, adequate resources 'to meet its needs if only they can be reached. But the Conservative^ papers are. hostile to direct taxation., an Imperial - income > tax would- overlap that" "imposed .by Prussia and o^hier States, and the retention of the matricula* contribution in any form will continue to complicate Statefinance. . Entries for Domain Sports at Eltham on Easter Monday close on Saturday. April 11. • Mr J. L. Niool, eyesight specialist, has an advertisement in to-day's issue. THE "HARTNETT"" MHiKEB. Mr J. N. Garni in, Kaupokonui, writes : "Having used your 'Hartnett'- Milking Machines for the past eight months, I feel confident in saying it is the best machine yet placed on the market. I have about 1 160 cows, and onr 8 machines have miJVed these in the flush of the season in 2J hours. A small boy can operate them with the greatest of ease. I think the automatic releaser is a splendid idea, and your machines should prove a Boon to dairy farmers." C. Dahl and Co., Ltd.. Acents, Palmmton North*— Advfc. DON'T WAIT till to-morrow. It'» little colds that grow into Big colds, the bi<r colds that end in consumption and death. Don't wait till to-morrow to curethe. little colds, for one dose of Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery f«r CVnighs, Colds, wnd" Consonrotion will break ttn a coW ff tnkflti at the beginning: Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery is a safe and nevw-faiWnsr, remedy. Price- la 6d and 3s. For sale ohemisfc ana storekeepers. Rnwera* P. J. Qapoer, Kapomgaj and G James, Alton.— Advt.