The Ensign. FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1910.

Mataura Ensign, 18 March 1910, Page 2

The Ensign. FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1910.

AN HONOR TO GORE. Tho climate of Southland is peculiarly adapted to tho production of a virile stamp of youth who have taken their place high in the ranks of those distinguished throughout the Dominion for their athletic prowess. The wearer of the laurel wreath to-day is the representative of this district at the New Zealand Athletic Union championships at G'reymouth, Mr W. F. Trembath, whom wo heartily congratulate upon his splendid achievement. For those who take part in athletic games there is much value to be gained which is at once a set-off to any eliargo of waste of time. The runner to excel must train regularly and long; he must live simply and discipline his mind and body .fit .himself for the race which shall yield him the prize he has in view. Who shall deny that these ■ actors are not the best foundation for his future? The battle of life is not easy and there is every need to encourage those recreations which shall save it from becoming too monotonous a strain. The winner of the honors at Greymouth is popular among his fellows and it is safe to say he will take his distinctions with' that honesty of purpose anil appreciation of their value characteristic of tho true athlete. He has deserved them and the pleasure of his victories is shared by his fellowtownsmen. His performances mark Trembath as the best all-round runner in the Dominion, a distinction which his many admirers will not be slow to appreciate.

A purebred Holstein cow belonging to Mr I{. H. Cameron, of Stratford, recently gave birth to four calves at one calving. The calves all died. From three rabbit warrens Mr K Hetherington, of Burrawang, New South Wales, recently dug out 113 rabbits. The largest freezing works in Australia are those of the South Australian Government. Capacity: Killing, 8000 lambs per day; storage, 250,000 carcases. The sheep killing capacity ot the Deuiliquin works is 1500 lambs, or 2000 sheep, per day; storage capacity, 40,000 carcases mutton. The game of golf and its dangers were discussed in an unusual case in the Supreme Court in Wellington the other day. A surveyor who had beeri( called as a witness to describe the position of tees and bridges and creeks and pathways about the links was asked by cross-examining counsel if he were a member of the club on whose links a lady player had been injured by another member. "No," he replied. "Do you know the game?" counsel then asked. said the witness, "I played for two years. I was a member of the Hutt Club when it was first formed." Then, after deliberation, "But I don't know much about th? game. I played for about two years, and found that I was getting worse, so I gave it np." Mothers, take note—2os will procure for your boy a complete outfit, including 1 Colonial Tweed Norfolk Suit (any size), CaD. Braces. Collar, Stockings and Shirt. This special offer holds frood for one month only.—R. H. SCOTT AND CO., Opposite Post Office.

The s.s. Manuka, due at Bluff on j Holiday next, is limiting 139 bags of' United Kingdom and foreign mull:,. i

Three hundred miles of r:sbliii-pro.»r fencing is being erected in the .Scoyue mid Minilya districts by the newlyestablished Vermin Board of Western Australia. MINIATUIUSS for Pendants, Lockets, Brooches, _ie., finished in Water Coiors, Indian Ink, Sepia, etc., from any photo; high-class work; moderate prices. —CLAYTON, Gore. The first meeting of the newly-elected Southland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board will be held on April 1 at noon, when the chairman will be elected, committees appointed and the dates of meetings arranged.

Advices have been received locally that a number of spurious half-sov-ereigns are in circulation in Wellington. The false coin is stated to be a good imitation as far as gilding is concerned but it is very light and can easily be detected from the genuine upon examination. It is dated 1908 and has the ■ving's head on the front with St. George and the dragon on the reverse side. No doubt some of the coins will find their way South and it would be well for tradesmen to watch for these visitors.

A concert under the auspices of the H.A.C.B.S. was held in the Temperance Hall last evening in honor of St. Patrick's Day, when a large number of members and their friends were prosent. Mr 0. Kelly (past president) occupied the chair. The following contributed items, which were very much appreciated Mrs Kelly, Misses Hynes. Hanneffy, Leonard and O'Brien and Messrs "Watson, Crawford, Walders and Smith. Mr F. O'Connor gave a recitation. Refreshments were afterwards handed round. The hall was then cleared for dancing, the music being supplied by Miss Carmody and Smith acting as

Some remarkable photographs are at present on vieiv at .Mr W. Thomson's pharmacy and at Jir (J. Steans' hairdressiiig establishment, Mam Street. Jnese photographs are certified by a u'ed-kiimvii Ohristehurch photographer .is being authentic and produced direct from the negative without any retouching. They represent both ladies and gentlemen on the one hand practically hairless and on the other showing very line heads or hair. It is interesting to note what a difference hair makes to a person's appearance. One man from a back view of the head looks as if he were seventy; another photo, of the same man taken with the hair restored, make; him look what he is—about thirty. Tin originals of these photographs have U thank "Brice's Regenerator" for tin speedy return of their hair. A correspondent forwards the 'Taranaki News' the following particulars—"A young man, an only son, workec hard. He neither smoked nor drank, never went to any place of amusement nor indulged in any pastime. After hib hard day's work he had to get his own meals. Every year lie had to make u] £Bl interest, £ls in rates and £52 for the maintenance of a sister in a mental hospital. All this had to be pair before lie thought of his own living and his living, 1 know, mostly consistei of bread and butter. The law demanded from this poor fellow £1 a week tc keep his sister in the asylum, and when lie could not pay it put him in gaol. Iwice he went to gaol. The last time, however, proved too much for his overtaxed strength and sensitive mind. Now he, too, is an inmate of the mental hospital."

Interviewed in Ashburton, Mr It. H Boyle, manager of the Eltham Cooperative Dairy Factory Company, stated that the question of the breed oi cattle bad a most important bearing or. the success of dairy farming and a number of farmers who bad not done so well as they should have done could trace their non-success to failure tc cull their herds and to keep the right breed of cattle. The Jersey-Shorthorn cross was the most popular in the dis-, trict, wink- the purebred Ayrshire als< came in j much favor. Personally In favored 1/ie Jersey-Shorthorn cross because they were cattle that milk--.' well, weiv easily kept and were invari ably the Irghest testers. In reply t< a further question Sir Boyle said tlm suppliers' herds ranged from 12 to Igr cows each, and the total number •>' cows milked was approximately 7500. The land in the Eltham district vai.c considerably, much of it being alle t< support at the rate of one cow p.?i «« but the greater part suceess; : 'A'\ depastured cattle the whole year roinii" at the rate of 2-} acres per cow. In tin. spring of the year a good all-roum dariy herd commanded a value of at least £7 10s per cow on a selling 5 v,n,.

The manager of the Edendale estate writes to the Melbourne 'Loader' at follows—"Lime seems to kill out ami Keep down not only the sorrel but othei weeds as well and foster the grasses which we want to grow. Lime is the nest couch eradicator we have yet found. Without the lime the .sown grasses would run out in a couple ol years; but the limed land lasts longer. 'A'e have proved in practice that turnips and clovers require lime for theii growth, and rape also thrives splendidly after lime. From a 180-acro paddock sown with rape, turnips and Italian ryegrass, 90 acres fattened 3000 lambs after weaning besides carrying 2001 stores for six weeks. The other 90 acres carried 350 bullocks for six weeks and 160 dry cows for longer. The weather was wet nearly ,ajl the time, which wasted a lot of feed. The stock ati the ryegrass first, then the rape, ant: finished with the turnips. The ryegrast was sown with a view of keeping the ground clean for the lambs grazing, but it afforded a lot of excellent feed be sides serving tho purpose it was sowi for. Tho first year's grass of a 240acre paddock fattened 250 head of heifers from stores, and a second 250 a little better than stores were put on and it finished off tho bulk of them. Before liming it would have been deai enough at 6s per acre rent. Oats thai we have had on limed land have threshed out 75 bushels, which before only gave 25." A strong attack upon professionalism in relation to liugby football was made by Mr D. Weir, captain-elect of the Wellington Football Club, at tho annual mooting of the club. "Amend the rules," he said, "make the game faster —and what then? You can't play it. It's the man wisu will step along ana take his £3 a week who- will be tinfootball player then, and you or other fools will go on the bank ai>d watch iiim." There were many who thought tile winning of matches was the only; thing to be desirei], Surely there was something more to be desired than that! For himself, ho would soonei they never won a match than that they should resort to some of the tactics of their opponents. The plain truth was that many of those associated with football in Wellington wanted to play the game for the public and not for the nlay. If certain innovations that were being advocated by tivo unions at the present time were brought about it would bo good-bye to football as they were proud to know it. The thing that would displace it would be worse than a pony race. It would not be without its allurements, this new tiling. Some of those he was addressing might be attracted by it. Inducements would lie held out to them—they might seo opportunity, of making lots of money out of it. But to what end? Let them sacrifice their honor; let them touch this new thing with a 40ft. pole, and when their football days were over and they recalled the past thev would regret it every remaining day of their lives. Football was a game—keep it a game, play it as a game.

A New Glove, a Fashionable Glove, a Washing Glove and a Hard-wearing Glove, all in one, that's our new 3s 6d Chamois Caster Glove, and it is worthy of your attention, being of great merit. Not a glove of great beauty, but a q|ove for warmth, comfort and durability, 3 glove that will wash and come up smiling and as good as ever. We have a little display on our Fancy Counter to-day. If you are interested in glove economies just examine this novelty. Sizes 6 to 7; shades, Chamois, Creme and Tans. MACGIBBON AND CO., LTD. The Main Street's Busy Corner. The new British armv airship lias been perfected. When the new military dirigible was launched at Famham it flew for an hour over Laffan's Plain. It is fish-shaned and is 120 ft. bug, with two propellers on each side!

f -lint Depcrignv, a French archaeo-j I 'gist, has arrived at British Hondu-1 i;,s, Central America. He reports the] discovery of an ancient buried city on tle irontier of British Honduras, It i' declared that the ruins indicate that the inhabitants of the city had attained a high degree of civilisation, oven approaching lhat of i;u> ancient Koina ns.

What it means to encounter a waterspout in the South Sens is described by Beatrice Crimshaiv: "First of all, a black trunk, like an elephant's, began to feel blindly a built in mid-air, hanging from a cloud. It oa:i:o nearer and nearer with uncanny speed, drawing up t.> itself a:; it caiiie a' colossal cone of turbulent sea uniil the two joined together in an enormous black pillar .--nine quarter of a mile broad at the base and ''reliably a goad thousand i'eet high, uniting as it did the clouds and the sea below. Across the darkening sea, against the threatening copper crimson sunset, came the gigantic horror, waltzing >ver troughs of torn up water in a veritable lance of death, like something blind, but mad and cruel, trving to find and shatter our fragile little ship."

The 'Xew Zealand Trade Review' states that weather conditions have .'ontinued very favourable for live stock and for dairy trade, but the output of the grain harvest is likelv to be a good deal below the very favorable promise of the first estimates. The 'xports of the season so far have been cry heavy, and prices are satisfactory. The total value of the shipments for the current quarter, ending in the 31st instant, promise to constitute a record far in excess of any 'previous corresponding period. Wooi, lairv produce, and meat will show very ligli titals. "Wjient g.ves expectation if an exportable surplus still equal to L hat m last year, hut the prospects •f oats are less favorable. On the ither hand our imports seem to be eiiiair.in" at about the reduced level of 1909, and Ihe excess of exports over mports will certainly show a very large nargin lor the March quarter. Bank 'ccounts will thus be substantially reilenished, and the financial position urther improved. The requirement? >f the New Zealand Government for mhlic works and other public purposes ire being obtained outside the Domnion, as also are the loans of local joverning bodies. Sir Joseph Ward recently stated that, applications of the 'atter character were in hand to the mount of £750,000, and the money vould lie available if the security proved satisfactory. The local market will, dierefore, not lie called upon to meet 'emands of this class, as it has been n the past, and the accumulations of '■lie community will be available for •eneral purpose. The prospect , there'ore, is for increased ease in this marking lost. Dog lost. House wanted. Rooms wanted. Mr and Mrs i'orter return thanks. More entries for Waikaka stock sale. A. H. Aitkon has handy farm for lale. St. Clair Comedy Co. performs tolight. Hard Times social at Mataura on Tuesday evening. Mrs Love!l has seasonable fruit oil ;ale. Mataura Pipe Bund Bazaar continued to-night. Wright, Stephenson and Co. hold a ipecial horse sale at Edendale on Monlay-