MANAWATU EVENING STANDARD POHANGINA GAZETTE. Circulation, 3,000 Copies Daily. SATURDAY, JULY 30TH 1904. ADULTERATED MILK.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7902, 30 July 1904, Page 4

MANAWATU EVENING STANDARD POHANGINA GAZETTE. Circulation, 3,000 Copies Daily. SATURDAY, JULY 30TH 1904. ADULTERATED MILK.

The case at Christchnrch a few days ago in which a dairyman was fined £5 and costs for adulterating milk will not, in all probability, deter others from acting in the same dishonest manner, and offenders should, in future, be dealt with more stringently. The Act provides for a fine of £50J and to allow a man to escape on payment of £5 and costs is ridiculous. In England fines as high as £20 and £30 are inflicted for offences of this description. The Christchurch dairyman pleaded guilty, and it came out in evidence that he had added Qh gallons of water to the quantity of milk he was selling, 42 gallons. If a dairyman will sell adulterated milk to customers, he is also liable .to act unscrupulously in other ways, hence, the ' belief ot manjvpepple that much of the lacteal fluid disposed of for human consumption is tainted. The milk Vendor should be made to realise that his dishonesty or carelessness is especially destructive to infant life, and this can only be done by severe punishment. What is re- ; quired in providing for the supervision 6i the production, carriage and sale of: milk is cleanliness—clean beasts to produce our supply, clean fodder clean milkers, ciean dairies and milking sheds, .and clean utensils for transit and distribution. Ensure these and our milk supply will be as near perfection as practicable. As this is done elsewhere, why not m New Zealand ? Take, for instance, the experience of the city of New York, ■where at one time.the medical authorities declared that to,the poisonous milk supply 70 per cent, of the" infant deaths within its limits could be traced. Within the last:three years this has all been changed owing to the crusade of the Milk Commission.' The system adopted is to divide the city into sections. Visits,are made at irregular intervals by inspectors to. all milk vendorsThese inspeators carry, their! own thermometers and lactometers, and. test the milk on the premises taking samples at the same time-for. independent testing. All utensila and ths,premises are examined. If a dealer is found to hava diluted or adulfceratocl the milk.. by. the addition of water, chemicals or other foreign master, or 13 keeping' his"' premises, dirty and utensils

unwashed, he is at once arrested, and not a nominal, but a stringenc,"penalty | is imposed, coupled with a substantial guarantee thai if permitted to continue selling milk he must mend his ways j Farms are visited, diseased c title ooni demned, and -the dairies, sheds and ' aurroundinga carefully inspected. If the owner, after a first conviction, persists in ' keeping his milk walk or herd in bad condition, his cow 3 are impounded and kapi; at hid expense until the whole of the rule 3 of the Board or Health uro carried oaS, , This may iseem ■ a dra3tic method of dealing with the milk supply question, but experience has taught the New York State Government that h id only by placing the administration of the Health Aefc in the hands of responsible .paid officera that good results can-be obtained. Now tha milk supply-of,New York is second to none in the world foir purifcy, Why should not other oountirias hava the same advantages ? The Government of a country may pass legislation to deal with matters of this kind, bnt unless the law. is strictly enforced by mea bent upon doing their duty no good will result from the action of the Legislature. It is the dufcj o£ inspectors to see that the law i 3 complied with so that the public and the honest dairyman may be protected-, and in oil cases where adulteration is proved heavy fines should be imposed.

The Evening Post, in an article on the Pahiatua election, says"it was not foe want of the ordinary Ministerial inducements that the electorate revolted. The Minister ot Lands had been touring the district a short time back do study the needs of the settlers and make the customary promises, and on.the very eye of the, poll the Postmaster-General, wjth a seleoli bodyguard of private members, j appeared in Pahiatua to exhort the electora to be true to their allegiance, aad to indulge in the usual barefaced appeals in order to effect that object. In reminding the electors that it was chiefly owing to the late member's " indefatigable representations to the Government" that drainage works were now in progress in I the district that'would cost £12,00 C, Sir Joseph Ward employed the most powerful argument in the Government's repertoire, but in vain. The independence of the constituency rose superior to thase inducements, and Mr Hawkins haß won a well-deserved triumph. He owes his election chiefly to: three, thinga —his own vigorous personality, the gen. eral discontent at the extravagant and autocratic 'maladministration of the Government, and the strenuous efforts of the Prohibition Party. Some oE his critics complain that he is. too outspoken and too fond of calling.a spade a spad6 ; but if he is, as we believe, honest, fearless, and independent, his trenchant criticism will prove of real service to I our public life, andtime may mellor whatever asperities are objected to without impairing its force .. Doubtless the chief lesson of the victory is that one of the most carefully nursed of constituencies is weary of tho Government's methods, and badly wants a" change. A long course of "Ministerial coddling, followed by direct Ministerial interference in the course of the elec tion, has resulted in a conspicuous Ministerial defeat. As a free man representing a free constituency, Mr Hawkins, M.H.E., stands in an enviable position, and we trust that he will prove worthy of it. ,'-...

AccoEDiNG to Sir Joseph Ward the Government do not intend to raise the interest paid to post-office savings bank depositors. It seems absurd that while the Government cannot raise money under 4 per cent, in the London mar. tet—and very little is available, at that price—the working people, who have placed their hard earned cash at the disposal of the Government, are only allowed from 2-1 to 8 per cent. The Government has found the ready cash in the post offices the means of getting it out of a tight cornsr on many occasions, and the least it could do in return for that kindness would be to award dei positors the ruling rate of interest.

Captain Edwin telegraphed to-day:— Moderate easterly muds; indications for f rosfto-night; glass. rise. Three constables were in attendance at a football „ match at. Taihapo on Saturday afternoon. The funeral of the late Mr E. Gerard took place this afternoon, the Rev. B. Young conducting the burial service. At St. Troud, Belgium, a major, of cavalry, whose two horses failed to win "a race, solemnly sentenced the horses f o be shot, and they were executed within an hour. At a champagne spread at Auckland Mr Seddon spoke of Women as " those guardian angels on this terrestrial sphere without whom life is not worth living/ He must surely have ment political women. As a result of Dr Bakewell's diatribe against New Zealand women, Australian papers have now averred that " ITew Zealand mrls are the xighest in the world." The doctor's life won't be safe it he isn't careful. Last week. a man practising with a pea rifle in his back yard in Masterton, missed the target and the bullet went through the window of a house a hund-, red yards distant; In due courselie appeared before the Court when two intelligent J'sP. fined him , one shilling and costs. It is this kind of " lenient" treatment that is offering for the indiscriminate use of the. pea rifle. It has for some-time been known that a dairy company in the Havrera district has had under consideration the i question of litigation in connection with a: contract said to have been negotiated and concluded for the sale of its output this last season. :;. We (iiawera Star.V understand t\iat it is now practically certain that the matter will come before the .Courts. \': ; . ■ ■■■■■■.::;■ ■ ■:; ''■:':':;■'. ':.:V':'. .v-'\

A Wairampa South African volunteers Association has been formed in Masterton L ? rd Plunket was elected Patron and Col. Newall President. - Prime fat wethers at the last Johnsonville sale brought 26s per head ' The indications are, fiQ y 3 a contemporary, that fat sneep m the Waiwrapa will bring record pneea bofoso the end of too present season. Mr W. H. Hawkins, M.H.R.. is described. a ß a second -Tommy " Taylor Some uvely times aro amld^ied, { J tnQ Herald Pl0* rl"0r of the Pahiatua It is very nice to be a railway servant especially when elections ara on it fe ..roportei that Sir Joseph Warf'was to [have left Palmtua for Wellington by special train at midnight on Wednesday mght. A guard, 3river:, and fireman were kepi waiting a!l night m the ooH. Local poultry breeders wn o Uave gained pr i2ea= thjis season include Mr Cotton,, who, with his brown Leg- ■. horns;, secured first and special, second and third prizes at JVlasror.--ton ; and first and special and two seconds at New Plymouth. He was • equally, successful at ■•ill the Jnn?e centres. Mr Cotton' Las a l Q v%e team for tlio local show n?*i; week., Tlie Nelson Chamber of Commerce Has received samples of coal from •• the Tjpper Buller, taken from various seams. One of them a five feefc seam, and another, the width of. which lias not yet been. determined, are close to the route of the Mid- : land railway. The coal has-been used successfully for steam aiid other purposes, and can be shipped at Nel- ' son in large quantities. At PaMatua on vVednesday night a budding political orator endeavoured to obtain a hearing on the Square in opposition to the Independent Liberal candidate, bat the crowd reseu-.ed his interference in the campaign, and he was hustled off, bis point of vantage, wcile a brace of political partisans icdulged in fisticuffs to the enjoyment of lovers of the noble art of self-defence. The police thereupon appeared on the soone. other. ■wise serious developments might have followed, A narcotic bomb has been inventeel by a surgeon in the Austrian army- The bomb, which may be fired ' from any gu n , has a time fuse, and when dropped among- a regiment of the enemy, wi\l n ot explode,. <but will fill the air with narcotic gases strong enough to make 2000 men unconscious for several hours.; While in this condition they may be captured, and when they wake up they will feel no bad effects of their experience' beyond a .slight Sieaidache. ■ At - tho meeting, of the Borough' Council on Monday night Cr. Essex will move that the Sanitary Inspector's, salary be £200 per year, .made up, as^ follows .:—£7s for sanitary inspection, £75 for inspecting, buildings, • and £50 as inspector ftf vehicles. ' At present Inspector Perry? s salary '.- is paid by the Government from contributions received from the local ibodies.; The Kaira'nga County , Council lias dispensed witH his services, and it is surmised tlie Borough1 'Council ■will either have to make up the deficiency in salary" or dismiss him also. , The present" proposal is an alternative-;,... At the annual meeting of the Egmont ■ Co-operative Box. Company the matter of waxing of butter boxes was discussed, and letters wore read from Taieri and Peninsular Milk supply Co, and-the JS TD. Association of New Zealand, all pointing out the advantages of the process, in reply to questions, Mr Dive said that a plant could be put in for about JE4O, and tho cost to the factories would be less than £d, per box. The saving vyould be considerable, presenting shrinkage in the butter while in store. This saving would represent about ■Jib of butter per box. After considerable discussion it was decided that the company, put in all necessary plant tor parafiuing boxes. A Wellington scribe is getting sick of . conferences. He says :—ln the last ten days the newspapers have been called upon to , report, free, gratis, and for nothing, a whole list oc conferences,which he enumerates, ar-d he adds : The conference epidemic occurs regularly every year. Some of their people say unprintable things about our weather, abuse our city, grumble at the lack ot ■ accommodation it is able to afford them at these times, and at the charges they are called upon to pay, growl at the absence of verbatim reports of their speeches in the daily papers, and £o back to their homes under the impression that they will be missed along here. We never miss that sort; of person,l and, speaking from the point of view of the hard-worked scribe, we wouldn't,miss their conferences— much.1' ' -~"'- . ''

The young.- people's gathering, in ■ connection with tho London Missionary Society was"largely attended in the Congregaiional CKurcL. last'evening, when addresses were delivered ; .by Eev. T. S. and Mrs .Wasson, of Chiang- Chiu. One chief item of interest in tHe proceedings was the • distribution of missionaiy, ""prize ■ books by Mr : Wasson to the ifoHow-;. ing :—Girls-rB. Hall, H. Brougham, E. Eawlins, 5. Toms, M. Toms, F. Norton/; E. Stout, S,, Smith!, 'H s -. Alexander, G. Burges, I. Alexaiiider" ■ E. McDowaM, B. Pringilc;, L; Hardie, E. Hocking, A< Hastie./Boys.—E. Baker, H:! Baker,' C- 'Sinclair, H. Stubbs, E. Stout^E. Bryant, T.Dewar, W. -Sorresen,' E. Toms,' U. McDowall, W, Dewar, Geo. StoiitGiL Stout, R. Har&eyHi'Prmgle,

, :■• Vi» r .Harry Palmer will: hold eW- , -mg- sales everyday next week.' .'■ ' , The -Rev. W. Earee leaves England" ' ber W Zealaud -early.in .SoptomT Mr B. K. Reed, of Palmeirslfoh v Jias xWt«Ta. collection, pf plantvS vthe Beautifying Society,, - . ' ' The Zealaudia' Hall. i n Broarl street will be opened with a fiS : surf.dance on Monday evenhio n £* .-'■■ J hc ,H-P; Sawmillcrs' Association -■■■-thP r> -^ -;t vat a«'*e- mills-in. the Danncvarke.district will resume JiUl work next week. family from England, says he expects lo leave the Old Country fi (SSria in September., It is uwderstood that at *londav meeting, o f. the 'Soroush •Council a motion will ' O0 tablod to 'n.rrease the ; Borough .Sa'ititor's -t-alaiy ironi £75 to. £100. On page. .7 we publish a map of •ilu- scene of operations in connec- . turn with the Russo-Japanese war. .By its means fhe movements de■tarled i n our cables may ,bb easily Hollowed.- . *■ . ' A .special meeting of the committee of the JMaiJla.Watu Racing- Club) fend guarantors of the railway line to the course will be held on. Monday siio-ht to transact important • ibwsiucss . * in' connection with the scheme. _ -Mr G. Reade, the well-known ■Iffimierst-on representative of tlio jS./.. Times.. Las 'joined.the literary ■ staff of our local morning, contemporary, to which, we are sure, he will prove an acquisition. • _ On .Monday night a general mcctin>_r of the Mauawatu Coiuvi'usr Club will be held at the Empir«"ilotel. Reports on ihe various ground- nutter olFcr to the Club will hh considered in 'addition to other important business. A Crown tenant near P-ipiriki, on •ihe Wanganui river, •has erected -a ■signboard which reads :—'•' I'd sooner .faf a peasant beneath the Russian Czar than be hunted by a Land' •Board like the little cockles are.'' i\l r D. Thompson, owner of Ivreralm and The Guesser, itas purchased lillr Jensen's property of eleven acres and residence,- in Te Awe Awe street, Hokowhitu. The price paid is sbsxted to- be £2400. Property still continues to realise high values in anjpart of the town. The public pouml has. hitherto, not. been regarded as an up-to-date saleyard, but a short advertisement .. in the '* Standard " resulted in six weaners that were in durance vile rea'lising-£2 Os 6d each—top. price, we tire informed, this season. .* The services in the Baptist Church to-morrow--morning and evenino— will be conducted by the Rev. gTuv Thornton, once an infidel. I-h the afternoon, Mr Thornton will address a meeting of men in the • Fire Brigade Hall. Mrs Thornton', also, will address a meeting for youno-, and take some part in the services. At last night's meeting o £ Orient lodge, 1.0.0 Jl., A.C., "Jf.G...8r0. Lewis presided, and one candidate .ior membership was olccted. A' large amount of routine business was transacted. It was decided to g-ive a medal to the member who-pro-poses the most new members during the coming term. . , The Wanganui Herald says Mr T. Jj. Buick, after- being .defeated for the Wairau seat, '"'.did not seek re- . flection . till 1896, -when he.stood, against Mr Pirani for the Palmerston seat. Here again he was at a in that he was practically new to the-'district, and suffered defeat _by but GO votes. ; Cur contemporary's statement is incor-l-cct. It was Mr .David Buiek, a wel'-known settler .in this district, who contested the "Pa'lmerston seat witih j\lr Pirani. . : , -: • ■

The editor of a certain paper recently received aY line .-chicken (says ..Feathered Life), which he, supposing, it to be a ■token of appreciation from -a discriminating reader, took tome, and enjoyed for 'dinner. The -following day he received, this letter :— "Dear Mi Editor^—Yesterday.l sent .you .a chicken in order to settle ' a dispute which has arisen here. Can you tell us what the 'chicken died! of ">■'' ~ '.■■-." . -•_ Yesterday Messrs Abraham ■ and Williams held a safe of.dairy st.ocl^ on behalf of Hr S.E. Lancaster, i'kzherbert. Though the attendance Ava.s not large, bidding was brisk and a most successful sale was the result. The first sixty cows offered, including cows in milk,,averaged. ;E9 ISs Cd, and the whole herd, OS ■cows, £S 5s Gel. Springing; lieifers ■brought' up to £7 as, and empty -Jersey heifers to £5. Some Berkshire sows sold at £2 10s. According to a decision given by the Circuit Court Judge at Newark, 2S T.-1., a boy's life is ,twaee as valuable as a girl's from the legal standpoint, and damages in the 'action were assessed accordingly. The judicial theory, says the Telegraph's l*few York correspondent, was that whereas a girl would probably always 'be an expense to her parents., n boy would prove a-source of revenue and maintain his parents if iietessary in. their old age. Tin; jury shared the .same .view. A German inventor, Herr Otto Schlick. suggested to the Institute of Naval Architects, ; a device to abolish -sea-sickness. He proposed to instal in ship< an enormous' fly-wheel, which, ■cou'd be driven at high speed, when the •vessel showed a ■ cadency to roll, and he deunmstnited that the gyroscopic effect of this wheel would tend to hold the ship steady The spirm<r.g motion of a top, while it lasts, resi^tw the force of gravity to.xnatie it full, and the earth's spinning motion at over 1,000 •miiea an hour at the Equator keeps the axis pointing in one 'direction, so that a far greater force would b<V required to deflect it "than if the world were still. V-pplymg tlu3 orineidle, Herr Sehlick suggest that a big fly-wheel kept ■whirling at a good,rate might steady a rolling ship.

The first1 supply of coal for the general, public from the State co-al "mines of 1200 or 1300 tons will reach; Wellington ;on Monday, and will beplaced by the Department amongst the dealers in the city.It is" intended to- open, the offices of -the State Fire Insurance Department simultaneously throughout' the colony on September Ist, if preparations are. sufficiently advanced. The Wanganui Chronicle's Wellington correspondent says .most people, are agreed that the Pahia'tua" election lias sounded the knell of ■_[ Clause 9, and some go .so far as to say that the Licensing Bill'-naU probably, be found among the innocents massacred at the eiid oE the session. It is told against an Auckland tern orato.', t ;»t he was urging wftii much emphasis that " a man is known by Ms" works."- An un?ymij;ii-hei,c bystander removed his pipe from h s" mouth to remark, "'Y^ura must be a gasworks." " You 'haven't a leg to stand, upon.," declared one of the audience at the no-license meeting at Rangiora on Wednesday night, addressing the Rev. T. Fee, who was speaking. "Haven't I, my friend? I challenge you to show a better pair of calves than I can.'"' was the prompt and m/irthrprovoking- reply. —Lyttelton Times. The Patea Press says that during the past lew weeks a local blacksmith's shop has been turned into a veterinary surgeon's hospita-V a largo number of horses having been brought there suffering from eating ironsaiid. While feeding on grass they had consumed a (juantity of sand, which formed into. consolidated lumps, From one horse alone three and a half buckets. of sand were taken. In one day seven horses were brought in for treatment. 'Patea is determined to get the iron works there at any cost, even c& truth. A certain truant officer employed by aa Eduf ation Board in the South Island is regarded as a species of Ker> by other Boards, who are gazing on his exploits with wistful admiration. The officer in question has recently distinguished himself by successfully prose-' cuting for non-attendance of children a police sergeant's wife, the chairman of the school committee, and a man of' mark on a Drainage Board, all in different districts. The Board that employs him is enthusiastically backing him up. One of the most curious of the many natural barometers consists of ahalf-pint glass half-full of water, a piece of muslin, and a leech. The leech must be put m the water, and the muslin tied over the top of the glass s>o that the en ature connot get out again. When line weather is to be the order of the day the leech will, rt mam at the-bottom of the water, coiled up in spiral shape and pefeetly motionless. If rain is to be expected, is wi'-l creep to the top of tho glass ai.d remain there until there is a likelihood of more settled weather. If there i 3 to be a storm of wind it squirms abom in the water with violence. For Bomo days before thunder it occasionally moves its body in aconvulsive fashion. In frosty weatbar it behave 3in the same manner aa in fine weather, and it foretell*'snow in the same manner as it does rain.

In an address recently delivered at. the Berlin.Urania, Profesßor Cerebotani presented a telegraphic apparatus fur transmitting any kind of handwriting, drawing, etc. The fundamental prinoiplei» identical with the principle employe}, for instance, by Elisha Gray, the novel feature being a highly sensitive system of electric magnets. In the case of the drawing pencil of the transmitter being moved upward in an oblique direction, the line obtained in tho receiving apparatus of previouslyinvented systems ia a broken one. In Gerebo'ani's system tha electro-magnets are so sensitive as to produce nearly straight lines, even in the case of' their being excited by extremely small currents. The telegraphic transmission of pictures and handwriting, as obtained by means of his apparatus, is therefore much-clearer and truer than in. the case of any previous apparatus. Some samples produced by Cerebotani were transmitted on the telegraph lines from Munich to Augsburg, from Milan to Turin, and finally from Berlin to Munich. A picture transmitted some weeks apo from Berlin to Munich, over a distance of 403 miles, is said to be finest specimen of telegraphic transmission ever obtained in this direction.. ; . •