CORRESPONDENCE.

Motueka Star, Volume VIII, Issue 582, 5 April 1907, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor feir : Speaking as cne who has been a fairly large exhibitor at our Horticultural Shows I think that the Committee are to be congratulated on the success of our last fixture on Easter Monday, and as we ought to be always trying to improve I trust that any suggestions that I may make, will be taken in good part. Firstly, why could not the fruit at the Autumn Show be taken in on the previous Saturday night? If this idea was adopted we could have most of the local exhibits staged, and there would be more time on Monday to attend to those exhibitors from a distance, and also the cut flowers. The staging of the exhibits still wants a lot of improving—the back now should be raised at least four inches, and all vegetables should be on a sloped stand. There is also the question of fruit pilfering which could easily be prevented by a small batten being nailed on to the bottom of the.wire netting. A coat of lime wash on the interior of the building would also vastly improve the general appearance of the Show.—l am, etc, Vorwarts.

Mr J A Guy, Land and Commission Agent, Ngatimoti, has for sale 50 acres of good land in the Orinoco Valley, witnin a mile of the School and P.O, for .£255.

Those who have seen the great Shaw-Savill liners Athenic, lonic, and Corinthie lying at Wellington would naturally wonder if ever the motion of the sea could effect them much. Yet -it seems that even they have their “bad moments” sometimes. On her trip out from England the Athenic had to be hove-to for twenty-two hours: Captain Kempson, who has been trading out to the colony for a quarter of a century, told a representative of the Hobart Mercury that he had never seen a bigger sea. Spray even broke over the captain’s bridge, which is 55 feet above the water line. The Methodist Confex-ence at Perth recently passed the following motion :—■ “That Thomas Albert James having by his grossly immoral conduct covered his name with shame and brought shame to our church, this Conference views his conduct with horror, and resolves that he he expelled from the ministry and membership of our church.” James bolted to Canada with a girl [formerly employed as a servant in his house, and devised an elaborate scheme to suggest that he had been drowned in Sydney Harbour. The Dannevirke Borough Council has accepted a tender of £1825 for the erection of the- new free public library,, the gift of Mr Carnegie. An order issued by the Defence Department gives to volunteer companies the right to hold daylight parades on Sundays fob capitation purposes. The number of such parades is limited to six.

Visitors to the Momohaki State fai m last week state that the growing of fruit there has proved an absolute failure from an economical point of view, and in future the Levin farm is to oe utilised for the purpose. At the * cent show of the Horowhenus Horticultural and Industrial Society some very heavy apples wereexhibited. In the class for the five heaviest apples, five Alfrestoos weighed 61b 2oz, five of the same variety 51b 13)b and five Peasgood’s None Such 51b 2 oz.

-Mr A T Maginnity, Chairman of the Nelson Education Board has been elected to a seat on the Victoria College Council, as representative of the Education Boards in the Middle District, which consists of Hawke’s Bay, Wellington, Marlborough, Grey, Westland, and Taranaki. Mr Talbot has held the position for three years, but as he was not desirous of continuing in office, it was at his request that Mr Maginnity consented to nomination. A sensational -dividend was paid at the Westport Jockey Club’s last meeting Pansy Irvington, in the Granity Handicap Trot, returning to the two ticket holders a dividend of £73 ll s each. One ticket was held by Mr F N Jones and the other between MessrsA Scott, J Bradley (quarter each) and Captain Simpson (half ticket). Mr Jones put £1 on each of five horses in the hope of striking a good second dividend, but fared much hetter than he expected. The dividend is a record for' the Club.—News. The gross takings of the refreshment room at the Horticultural Show amounted to £6 6s 6d. The room was in charge of Mesdames Batchelor and Ryder, the assistants being Misses Batchelor, and Ryder (2), and Messrs LeMottee and Ryder “Some little time ago.” says Mr J G Boyle Kelmscott, W.A., “I was suffering from a severe epugh, which threatened to take a serious form Hearing so much about Cnamberlam s Cough Remedy I decided to give it a trial and to my great satisfaction was completely cured bv the time I had finished tne. first bottle. For sale by A Manoy. y