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Mataura Ensign, Issue 1137, 17 January 1903, Page 3

Sheddan's Freehold dredge returned 330z for the week. Herr Botta, a German lawyer, has left £IO,OOO sterling (or the foundation of a school of cookery. This is batter than many free libraries in its way; for mark the high, undaunted spirit which underlies this generosity. Be testifies that in his experience bad cookery i 3 the cause of much conjugal unhappiness, and he hopes to set philanthropists an example which shall go far to remove this evil. We entirely approve his opinion. " Feed the brute " may be an exhaustive guide to domestic bliss, but the average housewife never seems to realise how much the word " feed" implies. Great virtue lies in a definition.—' Pall Mali.' The Railway Department has notified the Gore School committees that a train will be supplied for the excursion to Queenstown on 4th February. It is anticipated that the Department will be able to provide carriages throughout the train, but will notify the committees definitely as to this on Monday. The lollowing story about the late Archbishop of Canterbury is told by the ' British | Weekly': —That ardent teetotaller and temperance leader was one day instructing a P group of young clerymen in -the practical I work of house to house visitation amongst the poor. " Now," he said, afier laying down various principles for approaching and admonishing sick, " I will go into this inner room and lie down on the sofa. You will then come in, one by one, and address ma as though I were one of your poor sick parishioners." The Archbishop retired into the inner room, and there was much whispering ing among the curates. All felt too shy to approach their stern instructor. After live minutes' delay the Archbishop called out, " What, is no one coming ?" Thereupon an Irish curate took his courage between his hands, and walking solemnly into the inner room, stood by the Archbishop's couch, and bending over him, said in low, reproachful ribcents, "Frederick, Frederick, th 6 drink again!" The writer of " Agricultural Politics " in the ' Mark Lane Express ' says : —Mr Hanbury may be taken to be strong enough to resist the renewed efforts which are being made to remove the restrictions upon the importation of Argentine cattle into this country. The agitation is chietly in the interests of the big towns and of the traders dwelling therein. It has no force of public opinion behind it, and it represents no formally-indicated public demand. The question of free trade is not involved at all. If free trade were involved, then free trade must be taken to mean the sight of a foreign country to introduce disease into this country. The whole matter is, as a fact, one of administration rather than one for agitation. Mr Hanbury is in possession of defined facts, and is - the representative of a definite principle. That principle is, that England has a right to insist upon explicit guarantees that the admission of foreign cattle into this country shall not also mean the admission of cattle disease. A correspondent of the Cape 'Times' writes expressing surprise that nothing had been made public regarding an incident which occurred at Moororsesburg in the Malmesbury district on Friday, October 10th. The facts are as follow Two British military officers were out driving, when they were set upon by a crowd of roughs, men, women, and children, numbering about 400. These people, most of whom were ex-rebels, were celebrating Mr Kruger's birthday by means of a kind of picnic. On the approach of the two officers from the Uiquetburg direction the mob jeered and hooted at them, and began to throw stones and missiles with the greatest freedom, calling out such expressions as " verdomde rooineks." This naturally annoyed the officers, one of whom dismounted from his cart, and mounting his orderly's horse, rode in amonng the crowd. He was, however, dragged from his horse, flung to the ground, and there kicked and attacked in a .brutal and cowardly manner. Eventually he was rescued by one of the crowd, who warned £he reset that if they did not look out the uooineks would oome and rescue him and be down on them. The officers in question arrived at their destination badly bruised. The civil authorities had taken no action in the matter.

• - -'-.jjr' ' j.. A remarkable iriSsiiSde ot feonndity in sheep is reported as having taken place at Carrum, Victoria. Two comeback ewes have produced ten lambs iu eleven and a half montba, and all lived and thrived, two of tbe lambs having been sold recently at 17s 6d per ihead. Another ewe on tbe same farm has produced eight lambs in two years. The ' Waikato Argus • s&ye: On ono of the hot days last week MreNicholia, of Pnkekura, was astonished to see a sparrow's' nest at the nu? L a gam tree on her P laeß » blaze. Ihe übiquitous - proprietors of tbe nest must have commandeered a ma toli amongst their building material, and the heat ignited it.