LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 1 August 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There are 2222 telegraph offices open for the transaction of business in tne Dominion. "I spend about 2s a week on liquor," was the frank admission of a debtor at the Auckland Magistrate's Court. "I will accept an order for that 2s per week," said the lawyer, which was granted accordingly. A > stud merino ram purchased Ly Mr A.. W. Rutherford, sen., at the recent Sydney stud flock sales for 320 guineas arrived at Lyttelton by the Ulimaroa on July IS (says the 'Lyttelton T^mes). The ram wa» bred by the Cardry Stud | Flock, New South Wales. Land values appear to be incrc;isin>< more rapidly in the North Island than is the case in this island, remarks the i Ashburton Mail. Eighteen months ago a farmer (now of Ashburton) disposed of a farm of approximately 200 ~acres at Westmere, near Wanganui, and quite recently the purchaser sold out at a clear profit of £2000. In some parts of South Canterbury there is evidence that the grass gruo is again at work (says the Timaru Herald), and unless there comes a rough spell shortly the present mild weather will be anything but a blessing to the farming community. A good fall of snow or a very heavy ram would put an end to the grubs. The unpopularity of a •e.ueher.m one of the Christchurch schools ;s imported to have been the cause of a threatened "strike" amongst the pupils ;inder her charge. The ''agitators" <"sa>s the Press) went the length ef preparing a memorial for presentation to the headmaster, but failing to get all the scholars to sign it, a deputation v as ap'pointd and placed the gj?eva ices of i/e j would-be "strikers" before the rfcadmaster. Preparations are being made in Sydney for the arrival of the new White Star liner Ceramic, which will be the largest merchant vessel to have visited Australia. The Harbor Trust has a dredge at work at the spot where the .great 18,000 ton liner is to berth. When the dredging has been corr.j.U-ted a depth of 35ft will be obtained at low water spring tides. The Ceramic was to have left London on -ru]y 2-1, nr,d is expected to arrive at Sydney early in September. Some boys are in the habit of trying their markmanship with pea rifle's at the seagulls at the south side of the harbor (says the Timaru Post), and that they are careless is demonstrated by the fact that while a youth was walking along the beach on Thursday carrying a parcel a bullet from a pc?» rifle passed through the parcel within two inches of the lad's body. Is it unfair to say that so long as Parliament permits this promiscuous practice to continue, it makes itself a party to the folly and its results? The question of .whether a justice of the peace is allowed to receive payment for his services in witnessing signatures., etc. wafc referred to by Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M., at Auckland on Wednesday. His Worship said that as long ago as 1896 he obtained a ruling from the Solicitor-General on the subject. Justices are not allowed to receive any fees whatsoever for their services, with the qualification that in cases where they have to travel any distance there is no harm in paying' them the actual expenses incurred by such, a journey. Union officials in Wellington do not (says the N.Z. Times) approve of the Government's proposal to remove tho hearing of compensation cases from the Arbitration Court to the Magistrate's or Supreme Court. The president of the Wellington Trades Council. Mr E. Kennedy, on Wednesday, said that he was_ strongly of opinion that the Arbitration Court should still hear compensation cases. The court had maintained a splendid uniformity in its decisions, and this would not be the case if the claims were heard by different magistrates. He instanced disparity which occurred in the hearing of breaches of awards, and said that their interpretations greatly differed. According to tho report of the- New York State G'oyimittee on the Prevention of Blindness, summarised in the Lancet, thirteen persons in the State were blinded and four were killed duriifj; 1912 either by drinking wood alcohol or by inhaling its vapour. Wood, or methyl, alcohol is obtained by the dry distillation of wood. It has similar properties to ordinary alcohol, and is now produced in large quantities as a •substitute on accouut of its. cheapness due to freedom from duty. The report points out that although wood alcohol in as small a quantity as a teaspoonful has caused permanent blindness, and in larger quantities has caused death, this dangerous articl cis easily to be obtained from shops, often without a label or warning to indicate its poisonous nature. There is no development of modern industrial efficiency more interesting than the recent experiments in putting j human energy to the most productive use. On this subject the Broken Hi^l« Miner (New South Wales) says: "It is of no advantage to anyone that a man shall work twice as hard as necessary to do a given quantity of work. If a job can be done comfortably in four hours, why labor over it for eight-' That is the principle of the new scientific method of economising labor. It is clear that if the quantity of manual work now done in eight hours by one man can bj T a more saving use of his muscles be done in half the time, there is a fine prospect opened up for higher wages and shorter hours, and mor.e comforts generally. It is a very shortsighted person who would oppose any increase in human efficiency. To do this would be on a par with opposing the use of machinery. If the antimachinery party had been successful there would be no mines nor city at Broken Hill to-day, and those who live here, if alive at all, would be existing on that low scale, so close to the brutes, which was the average lot of the manual laborer befere machinery was brought into common use." As indicated "by advertisement in these columns, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Stratford, are selling by public auction on Monday, August 4 the whole of Mr W. H. Barlow's dairy herd, plant and general sundries, he having sold his farm. The cows are a special lot selected by Mr. Barlow for quality and milk, and i that he has a.thorough knowledge of dairy cows is proved by the fact that last year the whole herd of 20 cows gave him the enormous return of £19 15s 9d fper cow, including by-products, which shows what careful selection and attention will do. Leave the office with a headache and £O home? Don't do it—take Steams' Headache Cure before you leave and you will arrive home in a pleasant mood.—Advt. Tf you're living-in the country, If you're living in the town, Or if you've got just eighteen pence. Or even half a crown; For if you have, and winter's chill Attacks you till you're very ill, "J h;r? little "stocking" will procure A bottle of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Students wanted for classes in Dress •nalrtnc. also in Art subjects. Hawer. Technical School.—Advt. Sykes's Drench. —Now is the time to buy it.—Adrt. ,

A final reminder is given of Dr Gibb's lecture in the Opera House tonight. Even \vith ativeise weather conditions, it is anticipated that a larjje audience will be present to hear s,icn a well-known speaKer on the subject of tiie liible in Ss-iiools. "A weed is. a plant out of place,"' is one of tne best-known of the many definitions of a weed. Addressing the Agricultural Societies' Conference on Wednesday. Mr A. H. Cockayne, State Biologist, gave the following as a cle- | iinition: '"A weed is any plant unde■sired by man in the place it is occupying." Mr Cockayne pointed out tiiat plants which were bad weeds on some good North Island lands were useful plants on some of the poor lands of the South Island. Mr G. H. Mason, Registrar of Canterbury College, was, at the last meeting of the Board of Governors, granted three months' leave of absence in order to visit America. Mr Mason, who is president of the New Zealand Rugby Union, has been appointed manager of the New Zealand representative team which is to leave for California in September. In reply to a question asked by the acting-chairman of the board (Mr W. H. Montgomery), Mr Mason remarked that he had been in the board's service for thirty-five years, and that it was over twenty-four years since he had had an extended holiday. The chairman expressed the hope that Mr Mason would have an enjoyable time. \ When the Hon. Mr Herries, Ministor for Railways, was on a\ visit to New Plymouth some time ago, a deputation waited on him urging that the morning train from the South should be so timed as to reach New Plymouth earlier than at present. Mr Herries lias replied that, as the morning train arriving at Now Plymouth at 10.45 a.m. leaves Hawer.M at 7.20 a.m. and crosses the down mail troin at Stratford, to cross at the Tiext station further north (Midhirst) the up train would require to leave Hawera 35 minutes earlier, i.e.. at 6.4.5 a.m. Enquiry was madp "f the local bodies between Hnwera and Tnglewood some time ago, and the public opinion was entirely opposed to any earlier running of the train. Tn the (••iron instances the Minister regrets that the request cannot be acceded to at the present time. The evils of districts where there are areas of native lands not leased to Europeans is exemplified by the Kwno 'ifiing of t.lie Waitemata county. It is only a small riding, hut in it are 1376 fu-yp.s of po+.ive land owned by 31 proprietors. The use made of the land may be judged by the fact that the improvements p1! told total £510 in dwellings alone. The capital value of the land is £6190. fts it is mostly of first-class o'vility. Under the Treaty of SVaitangi this land cannot bp rated, therefore the European spt.+Ters have, to pay for maKing roads to benefit this property. This is only one illustration of many in the, county where rates" cannot l>e collected because the land is owned by natives, says the Auckland Star. * . ' T't has been the practice of the Railway Department to request relatives of members who died through accident to choose whether they will take compensation in a lump sum or go upon the superannuation fund. They were not allowed the benefit of both, though the superannuation would be mainly | available because of the deceased's own thrift and the compensation would,be obtainable under statute law by any s . outside workers' relatives. In" such a case the position in the railway service has now changed for the better. As a result of a. legal opinion obtained by tho Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, it is clear that", under an amendment of one of the Acts of last session, the relatives of railwaymen killed in the course of their duty are | entitled to both compensation under the Workers' Compensation Act and to the ordinary superannuation payments. A case has already been put through _ with the satisfactory results for a widow that she and her family obtained between £400 and £500 as compensation, and will also (says the N.Z. Times) enjoy the pension and children's allowances from the superannuation fund. Answering a question as to whether t whale flesh can be utilised as human i food, or whether it is too rank .or ! that purpose, Mr Stead, the New bouui Wales fisheries expert, told a Sydney interviewer that he had several times eaten whale steak, and that it was "us delicious as the- best stewing steak, especially that of ,the salt-bot-tom and finback species. The humpback is not so good. In appearance the flesh is red, and is scarcely distinguishable from beef; indeed, when cut in certain ways, only an expert 1 could tell that it is not* beef. Mr i Stead considers that there is a great , future for it,. an^ deplores the fact that so much is wasted at present. Last season alone 160 whales were caught off the New South Wales coast, and that number could have been more than doubled, so that there is apparently no lack of whales. On the Continent and in America whale flesh is manufactured in what is known as ''whale meal" and "whale cake," J and is fed to cattle, pigs, and otheir live stock. It woulrl make splendid j "canned" meat, he thinks. . Owing j to the enormous bulk of the whale, ! however, it is necessary to use it. or j treat it quickly, as its own weight soon canses decay to begin. An advertiser has steel barrels- for fc.ile. -.The Awatnnn , Dairy Company requires a first-class assistant. Abraham and Williams advertise a sale of heifers at Ilunterville. 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'•I was attacked with influenza and got so ill that I had to go to bed," writes Mr A. Mayall. Bootmaker, Taukau N.Z. "My wife went to Green and Colebrook's store to get something for me: they told her to give me Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and she brought a bottle home.' I am glad to say that it cured me, and in less than a week I was as well as ever and back at work." Sold by all chemists and storekeepers.—Advt. W TET FEET of+en result in a heavy cold, neglect of wTftch means Pneumonia or Consumption. tA. positive preventative of these ills is Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs and Colds. Small dose. Pleasant to take. Every bottle guaranteed. Price Is 6d and 3s. Obtainable at W. K. WalI lace's, chemist, Hawera.—Advt. Sykes's Drench will give you satisfaction.—Advt.