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Manawatu Standard, Volume 9163, Issue 9163, 12 March 1910, Page 4

The Marlborough A. and P. Association at its meeting last Saturday liscussed the question of experimenting with siigarbeet in the district. A purebred Holstein cow belonging to Mr R. H. Cameron, of Stratford, recently gave birth to four calves at one calving. Thd calves all died. Tho Publio Works Department has accepted the tender of A. R. Gardiner for tho erection of a post office at Wairoa, Hawke's Bay. The contract price is £3100. A boom in land is reported in the 'Waikato. It is stated that Hamilton possesses 62 land agents, and that an Auckland gentleman has expressed his intention of becoming the 63rd.

The King Country is badly off for roads. Mr Jas. Daly, of Mangaotaki,: Te -Kuiti, says the settlers cannot cart stores one yard nearer to any place than they could when the land was . taken up some eight, years ago. is costing 16s a bale to get to Te Kuitf railway station. There are between 40- i . and 50 settlers at Mangaotaki Valley v . The following officers will present themselves for examination at the Manawatu Mounted Rifles orderly room on; - Wednesday next at 10 a.m.: —Lieut.Col. Pringle, No. 3 Regiment MountedRifles ; Lieut. Perston, P.N. Rifles; Ma- . jor Meld rum. No. 3 Regiment MountedRifles; , Lieut. Wardrop, Woodville Rifles. Capt. Mounsey is the supervising, officer of the local board. Since leaving England in February,. 1908, Mr Mayers and .the Barnardo Boys have held over six hundred services and meetings, and have raised more than. £16,000 for tho Barnardo child-rescue work (says an Australian paper). This sum is to be expended in a new hospital, to be erected in the Barnardo Girls' Village as an Australian tribute to Dr. Barnardo's memory.

Many shots were approached at Trentham in regard to the use of tobacco in its relation to shooting. A number of the finest marksmen- in New Zealand shun the pipe as an enemy of nerve and eyesight. One marksman who has smoked for 50 years holds that the use of tobacco is steadying to some and unnerving to others. "What is. one man's meat," he concluded, "is another man's poison. I've been poisoned myself since- I .was 14 years, old." A lady ana gentleman, went to tho Napier breakwater on Wednesday even-, ing for the purpose of seeing some friends off by tho Tarawera, and boarded the boat. Their leave-takings were evidently protracted, for before they were aware of the fact the steamer had left the wharf, and they were unwilling passengers to Gisborne, the nearest port of call. A wire from that town the next morning relieved the anxiety of their friends.

The following, sample of English "as it is writ" has been received by a Shannon tradesman (says the Dominion's local correspondent): —"Dear, sar,—Hi done aknoleg only one Pond aten shilns (£1 18s), wich you can ave anytime, res (the rest) Hi ave. als (always) denid. — Yous, etc." The correspondent adds:. — "It will como as a surprise to most people to learn that phonetic spellings has penetrated to Shannon. The system, has obviously certain advantages." "Will you swear off liquor for twelvemonths?" asked Mr Kettle, S.M., of adrunk at Auckland. "Yes," replied the man, somewhat dubiously. "Very well,, take the Biblo in your right hand and. repeat these words after me: 'I solemnly Swear to abstain from taking any alcoholic or intoxicating liquor for the period of : twelve months.' " The prisoner repeated • these words, but at the end. added these words "except medicinally!" "Oh, very well," thundered the Magistrate, "I am not going- to allow a man of your stamp to waste my time. You. are prohibited for twelve months." A Ngaere farmer agrees with the Dairy _ Division experts that New Zealand is losing annually a very large Gum (o'f which Taranaki's share is a full quarter of a million) owing to the inferior character of many of the dairy cows. He told a Star reporter on Tuesday that he knows from experience that a little care in selection and breedingwould make an immense difference in a very short time,, for within a period 'of five years he has by this means increased his out-turn of butter-fat by afc least 25 per cent. He ha.s no more land then he had, and no more cows, but he has improved the productiveness of his herd.

Many who carefully "isolate" a sick friend or child think nothing of allowing a pet animal, a dog or cat, to enter and leave the sick room. M. Remlinger, director of the Constantinople Pasteur Institute, points. out the grave danger of such toleration. His experiments have proved that on the fur of such animals the typhoid bacillus remains virulent for 17 day 6, the diphtheria microbe for 24 days, and the eharbon (anthrax) for over two months. When it is remembered how such animals are caressed and even kissed, the peril will be self-evident. Furry and woolly toys, "teddy bears," and the like, also present the same dangerous facility for carrying infection. Arnst and Wholch are in hard training for their match at Akaroa at Easter. On Sunday tho former took a feeler over the full distance, finishing strongly at. twenty-six to tho minute. He is in excellent fettle, though slightly on the heavy side, but considers he will be about down to weight by the time of the race. Whelch has put in some fast work on various stretches of the course; His going is excellent. and inspires his Juppoilters with confidence "that the champion will have to show his best pace to hoJd tho title. Whelch is said to be a faster man than when he raced last, and ho has a boat that suits him, while his starts and sprints prove him very speedy.

The wrestling match at Stratford on Tuesday night between A. Bain, Scottish champion, and R. J. Scott, the well-known New Zealand wrestler, was well attended. Bain- went to the mat at 16st 91b, whilst Scott weighed 14st 31b. The conditions that in order to win Scott had to throw Bain three times in one\ hour—a contract which he found beyoiid his capabilities to carry out'. Subsequent to the contest Scott challenged Bain fo a three-style' match, but the latter declined the offer, but expressed himself agreeable to a catch-as-catch-can match, first two out of three pin falls, to win. Nothing definite was arrived at, but probably a match will be arranged.

In the Supreme Court in Wellington: the Chief Justice delivered judgment in the ease hoard on Tuesday respecting trio Post Office Hotel. at Foxton, the parties being—George Alexander Gray, Elizabeth Gray. William Franklin Gray, and Kathleen Emma Dalzell (plaintiffs), and Susan Mary Dawson, Louisa Christina Stansell, and Jessie Martha Parish(defondants). _ Tho claim was for a decree for partition or, in the alternative, for sale of the hotel, of which the parties' were owners as tenants-in-corrunon. Hia Honoi decreed a sale because partition' would, bo an injury to ail parties. The matter would be referred to the Registrar. who would have a reserve price fixed. Consideration of other questions;; would be deferred until after the sale. Mr F. Cook (Marton) appeared for plaintiffs, Mr C. If. Treadwell for. MrsDawson, and Mr F. G. Bolton for the two Other defendants.

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In consequence of the advance in the price of New Zealand butter in London, where it is now quoted at from 120s to 1225, the wholesale selling price in Wellington has gone up one penny per lb, being now Is wholesale and Is 2d retail. A somewhat similar advance occurred in Auckland some two or three weeks since. The two freezing works at • Gisborne are kept very bu6y. A steady stream of fat stock has been pouring into both works, and the conversion of live stock into the frozen article has been proceeding recently at the rate of nearly 5000 mutton carcases per day. New freezing works are being erected at Tokomaru Bay (Gisborne). A tender at £29,000 has been accepted already for installing part of the machinery. A_ Haslam freezing machine will be put in. Three old identities of Ilavelock districtmet iix Blenheim last week, and their reminipcenoes of the early days would have ihMe very interesting reading. They were Mr John Bown, aged 80 (who left on Thursday on a trip to tho Old Country); Mr L. Borck, of Maori Bay, aged 77; and Mr W. Kennington, of Okaramio, aged 74. Fifty-three years ago Messrs Bown and Borck were pit-sawing in the Moutere. The three settlers bear traces of the years of hard work and long hours in the good old days, but physically and mentally they stand as proof of the efficacy of hard and unceasing work as a builder of strong constitutions.—Guardian.