NEWS & NOTES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 306, 1 December 1906, Page 1

NEWS & NOTES.

The Chinamen are ; adegts^tea adulteration... ' Iron filings are , .scattered over the leaves while:, they ,an jreen, arid as the leaves curr up; and dry they cover the filings f™W[PB h %.,l , The marigold is .a. Httie weat*er prophet, lor if the day -is going %o be fine it opens about 3-o clock in the morning ; but if Wet weather is in store, the marigold -, does not opei at all. The richest milk, is that which corr.es near the -Setose, of the milking. A test" •: lias- beeu discloseJ that the lirst half-pint of milk at a ruilking contains only 1.07 per cent, of cream, whilst the last haltpint contains 10..36 per cent. Dr Morrison; the '.'Times''^ Pekin correspondent; , ;clescrittes : .the. pew - antiiopiritrr Edict,^.as. satisfaijuiry as * u .jpir(flimin&ry ittdasure,' thotJKh- iroi hhtike edicts issued in the past, He .s not much more^hopefuL-.iitf would appear, than when. he gave m his book, "An > Australian in fauna, ,:'»■«•' ittrst impression of the. truffle. "he, :w/6te, .''are still issue^" against .the .; use of dpfuini. Tftiey are - drawn.' up, hy:,Cßrlneso philanthropists; over a quiet pipe 3f ; opium, .sigri'iPv; by opium^smoKirig officiate- wh'dse revenues are .de? rived from the PPPPy. n'r>d p.fjstod near fields of poppy, by the' opiumIrr.oking magistrates ™ho own them."A cigar.; has- cost a Scottish manufacturing firm £5000. On the 21st - Sept&wber .the motor-car vorks of Messrs E. and J. Grant, at Catheart, nsar Glasgow, wore destroyed by fire. Mr A. Grant, a member of,, the firm, lit a cigar, and' the match, ignited some; petrol «*T>ii-I t_ -Aj»* explosion ft>llowo<J. x»ti<l Mr Groht was bldwn through the window into the- street, but; escap- ; <i injury. A. lady antl two chiM•en who had been at -bis side wefe uninjured. Several mir>tor-cai?s ana' •:ycles were" destroj-ed. ~ - Mr Hoosevolt's son, Thecdoro, has just itueh the hero of an incjdenjt which is not; wii-hout its *Van:«irig oide. Some " Harvard, students .vere skylarking 6n Boston . Com.uin, and id tho course of their gambols they- managed to hurt a constable- who tried to- rotfeffcri with them. On the appearance of the patrol,' tEcy fied. but -*iiaS police arrested young Mr lioasflvcft ' aua three others and- toiok them 'to tine police station. Wheri . brought iieforo .he magistrate Theodore^ explained - chat he had not ■'. altemp.ted-^'toj • es:ape, because he was merely an ~lnnocent by-stander, and, • in :" :f{act, would be only 'too-^flad to'itestifji ig'ajnst tlie policeman's asskilahts. The magistrate, who" appeared to je m/uch moved by the gravity of his* situation, observed, ".Your father's s.on woulri'-'not tell a lie, you may -go -.tnto' 1 . ' *„ .-'-■- r "A Colonial Gitl. v In the-. Nortii Island"- .has sent !to 'the* '•'Queen" a .-ery readable letter on'- "Thie Ileal Station life in ;Kew Zealand.'' : it is* air'eply' to a' -f braver article that had Beon published hy the .■'.-. sanve journal, "which, .in! .the; opinion 6t tjhef present writer. : 'misrepresented lie station life 1 ju general. . She says that the fdruuiiri. . jxitiic, 'who sigped '•E.A.8.;"-; ' seenss to nave drawn iiis # conclusions from perhaps . only-".- 1 : one' r,unv'in""Oteg6, ,and 4re ifprJajf s.ihdt .iNbs^Zfijaseiti& is ojs large r as" the 'British Isles,- and therefore possesses many "cflmartes. She upholds the Housewife- and the colonial, girl ,<rho is T'eady'-for any emergency in the' household/ and in the saddle, and ~ she claims ' that the country, girl never' need -be dull if she takes any interest in the management of things indoors and out of doors. "I think that. % yoioe the feelinpr -of many- colonial -women that though our lives are at times dull, yet they are .happy, and we hope, not idle or profitless. ■. . In our country '. .life. there seems more happy marriages- and less idle gossip and scandal 'than in soma other places," if one can-:jutlgo by what one reads. 'The proof of the ttuddiug is . in the "gating, but 'E.A.B. ' . can have held only a cur.sory glance." . The annual meetings of.,share? holders of the Union .Steam Ship Company of New Zealand was hold at Durredin on "Monday. direc- , tors' report and toalance-jgheej;. were adopted, and a dividend of ' 4 • peacent. for the ,hair-year— making, with the interim dividend paid id May last, a dividend of 8 per cant _for tho year— was' declared, also a bonus of 2 per cent, from the ' insurance fund. Special interest attached to the meeting from tbo fact that tho Hon. G: M'Lean. who has occupied the position of chairman of directors from a Lvery- .parly, -. period of the "company's existence, retired from, the bdard.in accordance with the notice', which he gavo at the last a.noual meeting,,, -thati it was not ."his \ iitentipn'So>^ soeki 1 re-election at the explry'of -'-his* term, w-hich fell out this 'year, and,,) also in v^ew of a projected^yiitit of- himself and ' 'fam'ily-.fo Britain. Mr .Mjl'is^^'the'irla^agiihgf director, tooß'Tthe ot speaking *in ; apjjreeiittive 'bvrms of tho vnluablia-.Vsbrvioes Mr McLoan had, rehderedu^td; thef.J?ompany during *ihe long lime-he had occupied _a seat upon th^^.^b;c^pd,' i ar^iQs' l . 'announced to. the ' shareMotSeray tKit at the 'la?* •■ meetljig,';pi 'iiifi Aboard the foilowfog'^r^Slut'iflnP-n'ad lieen passed :— ''ln'Jv^w of Mr M'Lean having intimated that,, "ho would not seek ro-electioh "a."} "tt director, the board . resolves., to* »*ke .-' 'this opportunity to plq.ce^on record' its sense of. the "value 'of the ■ servic-^ , randerod'by '.'him tqTthte-. company, . as • a director smce' it4 'Mnitiat'ibni '-tq-''.. cognising ,'.-'. that • the practical interest ta|lflqp ; by f 'hSm,/'in 'ats^ . i aflaira ■ has been of inatejriai" assistanrio i-i its progreesr , aojd'. ~7 development, while hiS, r aSSociaitt6h"- with thj other menibers'; of "the present and previous-WardS'-has/^bocn of- tho most .pleasant and, helpful character^' 'Captaift'GaJr>er6h,''mar'ine superfhtendent of -the Union Company (who. J*as; 'jiist returned to tbo colony 01161?"%.:' residenca of soruo yearp at- Home;- n here' he 'has been supervising-, the 'designing ' and -'con>stnic'tion of the .company's stoamersj;^ was elected a member of • tho board 'in successiohT to Mr M'Leani The- auditors (Messirs Walter Hislop and G; M.~MacLeah) were're- , elected. " '-,; -~'-'tj