BY THE WAY.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1542, 21 September 1905, Page 5

BY THE WAY.

-More slush and stodge. -VZ.-Cornwall football match yesterday. No result yet. available. Cousin • lacks expected to put up a »ood light. I'-ast Core loan proposals approved. All outstanding hatchets appear to be snugly buried. Japanese officials discovered to have been swelling their private banking accounts from the chrysanthemum war chest. Which goes to show that the little brown man is not the supernatural patriot popular fancy has limned him. Parliament has finished wrestling with the Electoral Bill—in the meantime. It will have to be put through the Committee mill again to straighten out the kinks and tangles. Political candidates who are "out'' are beginning to plump the electorates in deadly earnest. Those who are "in" are wondering when they will be able to breathe a word in the private ears of their constituents. Judging by appearances the House may emulate the example of the proverbial hen on china eggs, and go on sitting indefinitely. However, a large and ruthless slaughter of the innocents will wash things up expediMr Wm. Roy, the Independent candidal for Clulha. opened his eam- ; L-ign by speaking at Bnleluiba on Tuesday evening. lie said his motto was : "For inv coiinlrv, for Cod, and for truth." 'He was accorded the customary non-committal vote of thanks. A mysterious cattle disease, which has occasioned considerable loss of stock in Australia, is supposed to have been spread by diseased mice contaminating the pastures. The Win ton correspondent of the Rockhampton 'Bulletin' makes the statement that kangaroo shooters out that wav "are making from £5 to £lO a week." Draught horses are fetching exceptionally high prices in New South Wales. -Recently a Narrabri breeder sold seventy head in the paddock at C3l ss. The farmers of the Komsey district, Victoria, are making large profits from potatoes, of which they had large crops, and which are selling at high prices. Every truekload is worth between £SO and £<io. The N.S.W. Covcrnment vacht Victoria has been sold for £lO,OOll. She cost £33.000 five years ago, since when CSOOO has been spent on her upkeep, though used on very few occasions. The total amount of the tolalisator investments during the three days' race meeting at Kalgoorlie (W.A.) was .CTfi/tfO. A London cable states thai the wool sales opened brisk at 5 to 7'J per cent, advance.