LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 10 August 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The District Court which should h&ee commenced this morning has been postponed for a week owing to the indisition of the Judge. We think somebody owes an apology to the public, especially the jurors, for failure to give due notice of the postponement. On Saturday morning hearing that the Judge was not well a Stab reporter made special enquiries as to whether an adjournment, was probable, but at that time no word had been received. It was announced on Friday in a Wanganui paper that the Judge was not well and in consequence the sittings there would have to be postponed, but no word was sent to Hawera until afternoon on Saturday. It would appear that even then no definite instructions were received. At any rate at the time of writing the jury subpoenaed to deal with criminal cases is still unreleased, though it is pretty certain it cannot be required until next Monday. [Since the foregoing was written the Clerk of the Court received instructions to discharge the jurymen and summon a fresh panel for Monday next. Accordingly at 12.30 the jurymen who had attended 'on adjournment from 10 o'clock were discharged.] A Mangatoki farmer ' says that the absorbing topic in his district among dairy farmers is the question pf * the disposal' of the coming season's butter. Everything in the district is in a "blooming" condition (expressive of spring) q,nd land keeps going up in value in anticipation of high prices* being obtained for produce. It is said that several dairy factories in the district have disposed of their' output of butter for August month at the satisfactory figure of Is 3d. This figure was on offer to the Eltkam Dairy Company on Saturday, but was not considered tempting enough. • . • Methodist' Church anniversary, services were well attended on Sunday, the preacher being the Rev. Mr Boys. At the evening service he discoursed on the Church and her foundations. The anniversary -will be further celebrated by a concert and social on Wednesday evening. During last season the Pihama Cooperative Dairy Company received 12,293,2901bs of milk, from which 518,5371bs of butter were made, giving the result of lib butter to 23.71bs of milk. The average test was 3.76 and the overrun 12.2. The newly-appointed directorate is Messrs F. W. Coombridge, A. Cross, J. Conaglen, S. Campbell, F. Julian, G. Looney, and R. Lambie, junr. The last-named was elected Chairman. A meeting of .the Hawera Branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union was held on Saturday night; present: — Messrs J. R. Corrigan (Presiden), J. Hicks, G. Taylor, A. E. Death, A. Hunter, and H. Spratt. An apology for absence was -received from Mr J. Davidson. The President said that Mr Wilson , (Colonial President) intimated that he could visit Hawera either on Monday, August 17, or on the following day, which ever date suited the committee. It was resolved on the motion of Messrs Taylor and Spratt that Tuesday, August 1 18, be the date for the visit when Mr Wilson will de«liver an address on Farmers' Union work in the evening. A motion was carried rescinding the previous resolution (that Mr Wilson visit Momohaki state farm) it having been pointed out that nothing would be gained by a visit to that farm at this time. It was decided to engage the Opera House for Mr Wilson's lecture. It was resojved on the motion of Messrs Spratt and : Taylor to hold a social on Thursday, August 27. Mr Hunter moved that the services of the Marton band be engaged to play at the social. Seconded by Mr Spratt and carried. Details were left to the President and the Secretary to arrange. The. Secretary reported a credit balance of £11 8s 3d. This was all the business and the meeting adjourned. / A euchre party- and dance will be held in the Kapuni Hall on Wednesday evening next. Portland cement Is obtainable at the Otakeho store. THE "EAGLE" OIL ENGINE. We are New Zealand agents for the "Eagle" Oil Engine, .which at the recent National Dairy Show was admitted to be the finest exhibited. It is British made and of very high standard in design and workmanship, yet simple, safe and thoroughly reliable, with low oil consumption. The value offered in the "Eagle" is such that we confidently defy competition. A word to the wise is enough — buy an "Eagle" and you have the best C. Dahl and Co., Ltd., Palmerston North.— Advt. For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure: Is 6d and 2s (3d. -

Recently in the counting-house of the Bank of England, a remarkable machine was installed for experimental purposes. The invention of, a Swedish engineer the apparatus counts and sorts money into paper tubes or bags at the rate of 72,000 coins an hour. Fourteen expert cashiers in the Bank of England, working all day long, are only able to c,ount £10,000 worth of silver coins. The new machine is expected to do so in a fifth jof the time. A representative of the "Daily Mail" witnessed a contest between this wonderful machine and an expert cashier. In the magazine of the machine were poured nearly 1000 pennies, while before the cashier, who sat at a table, was a large bag of similar coins. At a given signal the man and the machine began to count out 400 pennies. In twenty seconds from the start ' an electric bell at the side of the apparatus rang softly. The 400 coins had been counted out into twenty neat tubes, each containing twenty coins, while the cashier, laboring heroically, had sorted out exactly eighty-one pennies. "Wish 1, were t>ack where I came from," said a pi'anber from London to a Wellington Post reporter. "Why? Can you nob get work?" queried thereporter. "Oh, yes, I got work all right: but look at the cost of living. Wellington is all right for an unmarried tradesman. Her can make out a good enough time for himself. But lam a married man- with , two children, and Wellington is.no place for me. When I was at Home,, l lived in the suburbs 1 of London, and I paid six bob a week for a brick-built house that, was far better than anything, I could. 1 get* here for twenty-fie shillings. Then all .the common ■ commodities of life are far dearer also — oven . bread and btitter cost more. Clothes and furniture are robbery. I cannot even get a drink or a smoke at a reasonable price. I could do more with thirty bob a week in-the Old Country than I can with .three* pounds here. It cost me over £50 to come here, and it may be 'God's own country,' but, if I had another £50 to* morrow I would pack up willingly and return." One of the .pickets in King' street, Sydney, during the strike, tried to induce a loyal driver' to leave his car, and when cajolery failed, talked fight. The driver, replied that he could not fight, that he had a, weak heart, and that any exertion might imperil his life. The striker swung hisC right,- btit the driver slipped under his whirling . arm, and sent in a short right, so nicely placed that the striker hit the ground hard." When he jumped to his "feet again,and led with his left, the driver, who seemed to know a good deal about the business after all, side-stepped, and got in one on his opponent's i ribs; then following up his advantage, he brought home a straight left. The striker after scrambling to his feet, did not try any more. He had not quite made up his mind about the driver's weak, heart, but be knew all about his good pair of hands, in admirable .working order. "The land is worth all that it will produce," remarked the wiseacres, but it is a question if we really are aware what our land will produce if it is put to the test. There are instances (writes the Wairarapa correspondent of the Dominion) that, when properly worked, or even if only worked to ascertain extent, the land is absolutely lavish in reproductive growth. The same thing is going on in the Wairarapa, d^ay by day. Upon Whangaimoana, Mr Holmes Warren, who paid an alleged fancy price for his section, has fattened in the winter time 650 bullocks, 500 sheep, and 500 lambs. He is well satisfied with his speculation, and 'it must -be admitted he has worked his farm. 1 on, practical lines. o Coming nearer into the' 1 district, we find that the Wairarapa! dairymen, who are sending their milk to Wellington, estimate their gross return of £17 per cow per annum. Lastly I we talse a Greytown resident who .had an acre of land which he put into pumpkins, just as a speculation. He worked exactly five days on his acre, and in course of time (very soon) the pumpkins q;rew and grew, until the place seemed nlive with them. A minature pumpkin slump was threatened, and the man was at his wits' end to know what to do with them. In despair, he turned to a Chinese market gardener, who offered \ him £30 for the crop. The offer was accepted with alacrity, and the pumpkins were carted to the Greytown railway station, railed to Masterton and Carterton, and distributed to feed the inhabitants of those towns— doubtless at a good profit to the enterprising Celestial. During the course of an address to the Kimbolton branch of the Farmers' Union, Mr Gilruth (Chief Veterinarian) said the celebrated Dr. Koch had held that tuberculosis in cattle would have no effect on human beings, but this of course had since been found Vo be altogether wrong. Speaking or experiments, he (Mr Gilruth) had stated some years ago that 10 per cent of the cows in New Zealand were* suffering from tuberculosis, and it had been amply proved that thi« disease was dangerous to human beings who consumed +he milk. He explained how the co\wS^ spread th tuberculosis microbes through the manure. He had urged four years ago that dairy factories should pasteurise the skim milk from the factories before returning it to the suppliers for tbeir pigs. He nointed out that 7£ per cent of the ■nigs in Now Zealand were suffering from tuberculosis, -and this was a very bad state of affairs when they considered how easy it was to overcome it. In Denmark it was compulsory by law to pasteurise the skim milk. Public speakers and singers like Zymole Trokeys because when the voice begins to spet "fajjgy" one <fiwolved in the mouth mil rAJtore, the nafaral conditions. *

For July month, 1908, Eltham Dairy Company made 11,276 fts of butter and for the same month in. 1907 the total was, 9285R)5. The company pays out £565 8s 6d for July montn. Mr W, J. "McDonald, who has been appointed manager of the Kaupokonui Co-operative Dairy Company Limited, arrived ■ in, Hawera on Saturday and proceeds to Kaupokonui to-day. Mr McDonald- comes from Invercargill, where he was manager of the Morton Mains , Dairy -Company. "I signed a requisition to bring in rating \on unimproved ' values in Wellington," said Mr J. P. Luke at the Municipal Conference- at M Wellington, ' "and I regret it very much. * It has not been of much benefit to this city, nor to any other city tliat I know of.'* The Conference threw out a motion: "That .the interpretation' clause of the Eating on Unimproved Values Act, 1896, be amended by adding a definition of sewage rate, gas rate,' and electric light rate." A motion that all waterworks should be rated on their unimproved value was also negatived.