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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8477, 30 January 1891, Page 3

There is trouble in the Melbourne Free Public Library as well as in the Auckland Free Public Library in getting the public to understand that the books may nob bo taken away. The Rev. J. Christopher Moore, Presbyterian minister, was recently charged with larceny of a book from the Melbourne Public Library, admitted taking it, but denied any felonious intent, and was discharged. According to a report in the Implement and Machinery Review, complete success has been the result of the application of electricity as a motive power for a farming plant in the Western Pyrenees. M. Cornille Gonzy, who possesses 1500 acres of land, has for a considerable time used the power of a neighbouring stream for electric lighting. It appears that he has lately applied the same power, through a turbine, to the working of a grape-crushing plant, as well as to the irrigation of his vineyards. He has a Gramme dynamo, which receives the current, and by means of a strap works a drum on which is wound a rope, working a lift. The lift is used for raising heavy loads of grapes into the trucks of a small field railway, by which they are conveyed to the crushing vats. The turbine is of 25horse power. The dynamo works pumps for irrigating the vines as well as the crushing apparatus and the lift, and supplies light to ISO lamps. What the farming community can accomplish by organised combination has lately been shown in a somewhat striking manner in the United States, where the Democratic minority in the House of Representatives hag been turned into a large majority through the efforts, principally, of' farmers' associations, with their hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of members. There is no doubt that the eyes of American farmers have been opened to the injury done to them by the policy of bolstering up the manufacturing interests by means of high duties on imports recently brought to a climax by the passing of the monsbrous McKinley tariff. The Farmers' Alliance have elected at least two Governors of States, Mr. Tillman in South Carolina, and Mr. Willetts in Kansas, while in the Northwestern States, where the alliance is very powerful, there has been a general overthrow of the McKinley party. In Ohio Mr. McKinley has himself been defeated. Cadbory's Cocoa. —" A Cocoa of the highest degree of Purity and Nutritive value."— Health. The Medical Annual advises practitioners to remember that when recommending Cocoa as a food and beverage for invalids, tho name Cad bury on »ny pacltefc ®f Cocoa is a guarantee of purity.