PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 6 May 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

• j Mr G. M. Thomson, M.P.,, ©unedin ' North, is on a visit to Harcera, and may stay for several weeks.. He is staying with his son, Dr TUoxason. > Mr Stuart Macdonald* Hurleyville, was to-day sworn in as a Justice of the Peace by Me Keurick. SJVL, at Hawera. xTMrt. R {:H- Nol.an left for Palraerston ™rtn this morning to join the Racing Club Commission which continues its work next 'week. Many tesidents of this district will learn with regret of the death, as wired on Friday, of Mrs Gillingham, of Gisborne. For some years Mrs Gillinghaa ( nee Miss Eva Wachsmann) lived a. Jc Ararata with her parents, Mr and Mrs A. Wachsmann. Her death took place after a slight operation. Shs had been married only a few years.

"The annual meeting of Pihama Pub-. ;lic Hall Committee will be held on May 8, at 7,30 p.m. Euchre parties commence in Pihama Hall on May 9 under management of JPihama Athletic Club. -Most encouraging signs have been given of the existence of rich deposits of petroleum at Weber, near Dannevirke. Expert drillers are to thoroughly test ,the area marked off In the interests of rthe British capitalists who have the matter in hand. The group is also associated ■with the boring about to be undertaken at Kotuku, near Greymouth. In the election of Hawke's Bay County Council representatives on the Napier Harbor Board a peculiar point arose. 'The returning officer declined to furnish ■details of the voting at the various booths, because in places where there are •only two or three votes, and they plumped £or one candidate, publication of details would. violate the secrecy of the foallot. ■ t Mr Harold Beauchamp, chairman of the Bank of New Zealand, who has just returned from an extensive tour -throughout the country to the north of Auckland, has a very glowing idea as to its future. "These gum lands," says Mr Beauchamp, "which were a few years -;ago considered of little account, are beting found to be of great value. It has been found that the paspalum grass grows readily all over the gum-picked lands, and as it is a good feed-grass^ big •developments may be looked for. It k ■quite a wrong idea to suppose that there is no good land in the North Auckland district. I found round Whangarei, Ohaeawai, and Kaikohe land equal to that round Palmerston North for dairying purposes." A fresh attempt to assist the solution •of the domestic help problem is about to be made by Miss Kate;Ryley, a member of the Lancashire Education Committee. '.She proposes to apprentice a girl of 14, just leaving school/ with a "thorough housekeeper, living in the administrative county, and pay £10 on condition that the girl shall have board food, and instruction in housewifery and plain cooking for three months. Speaking to a representative- of the Wairarapa Daily Times "recently in re;gard to the best method of fattening pigs a resident of the district stated iihat potatoes, even when infected to .some extent with blight, could be safely "Used for pig's food i,f steamed. They not be boiled as in that case they -would keep the pigs growing very slowly. Boiling caused the starch to come out; :in the water and the potatoes became -deficient in and tended to promote indigestion in consequence. When steamed they would produce more than 50 per cent, of flesh and fat. ~" "Several experimental stations in ■Canada and United States of America have experimented with pumpkins, and found them to be very good for dairy . cows. Mr Hills, of the Vermount Experimental. Station, found that 2$ tons •of pumpkins, including seed, was equal to one ton of corn silage for dairy co ws. Mr French, of the Oregon Experiment Station, found that 200 pound pigs, when daily consuming 261b of. cooked •common yellow pumpkins in a small allowance of wheat'shorts, gained l^lb. 'The United States Dispensatory states that pumpkin seed is a vermifuge with . no reference to any other property; the seeds contain much nutriment and should not be wasted." The fabulous prices paid for leasehold township, sections at Te Kuiti, has had no check on speculators, and more -.sections have recently changed hands. The majority of residents consider that has run mad, and ■ think that the speculator' profits, while personally benefiting themselves, will be a distinct loss to the community. Many ■consider that if the land iji the town is going to be rushed up until it gets beyond the means of moderate purses, general settlement will be crippled. Capable working men wishing to have homes of their own at reasonable rates, are . seeking more favorable fields. NEURALGIA. |,~ If the affected parts are bathed freelly with Chamberlain's Pain Balm those Istabbingj burning^, darting pains .will disappear. Rub the Balm well in several times during the day, keeping the patient warm and out of the cold "wind. Dozens of people suffering lrom 'neuralgia have been cured by the use >of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. Sold by all chemists and storekeepers.—Advt. We freely admit that the best advertisers of Warner's Rust-proof Corsets are the wearers of Warner's. *, O X Washing Machines, price £4, less -5 per cent, for cash.—E. Dixon and Co. Hawera and Stratford. •