COUNTRY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9432, 12 February 1894, Page 6

COUNTRY NEWS.

[from our OWN cobrkspondintb am t « ', ; ***$*>% Saturday ME. J. C. Fibth s : pumice factory at J,., riri promises to be a big thing for him« i« and for Waikato too. As' aninroUtorth prepared pumice is far and away super ♦! charcoal— cheaper, and lighter, nabsolutely free from the danger of B JI UI taneous combustion, and the-many sum»„ ° tires which have lately damaged the car ° arid threatened the safety of vessels carrX!** cool compartment* insulated with char for purposes of keeping down the temn. ture of meat and other produce, points 1 too conclusively to the dangers arising h* l the use of charcoal as an insulator p 1 this purpose alone there will he a 1 and increasing demand for Mr p, r ar s e new insulator, but this is far from n" In the construction of dairies it i s r »• indispensihie, and it is cheap enough to into use for packing between the weath™ 16 boards and lining of every wooden hon ensuring coolness in summer and heat ■'' winter, and to some extent, where ho 10 . catch tire, lessening the spread and r! an USea thereof. Mr. Firth's staff is at work IS* and day, and so large are the orders aIS received for,the material produced that win his present plant I should not like to sav h lengthy a time I am told must elapse oefrT he could complete them. Mr. Firth h however, completed the purchase of ii ], * s ' quartz-roasting plant at Vvaihi, the retnov i of which to Rangiriri will be effected abont the middle of next week, and for the setti of which Mr. Collins, whose fire-bricks a" S second to none in the colony, has received" large order. * MOBEINSVILLE, Saturday The Gordon Special Settlement has mad another and a partially successful attemtt to obtain a subsidy from the Piako Countv Council for the repairs of the Lichfield—T Aroha Road within the settlement. Th* Council, at a former meeting, refused to com ply with the request that they should expend £140 on this road, providing the settlers subscribed half the money. A similar armli cation has led to a lengthy discussion in which Messrs. Gavin and Gage-Brdw, warmly supported it. Mr. Harrison asserted that if figures were gone into it would 1* shown that the district had had too larse share of the common funds expended unnn it. at least £2 10s for every £ they now proposed to contribute from thirds. It Wa . ultimately agreed that the Council should contribute 10s to the £1 of the settlers now and another 10s in the spring, and that it would expend a sum of £105 now, and £35 j n the spring, if the settlers would at once hand over their £70. Q . Tk Awamuttj, Saturday. Time was when the Waipa race meeting was an event in Waikato. Taking place as it did in the autumn, at a time when harvesting was all over, and possessed as the club is of one of the finest natural racecourses to be found in the country, close to the town of Te Awamutu, the Waipa race meeting was exceedingly popular. Since Mr. Roche left the district, some three years ago, the club has ceased to hold its meetings, and several of i its members were agitating the possibility ol holding an Easter meeting. The last one held was in 1891, and there is a credit balance from that meeting of between £8 and £9. ! ISIo doub,t, at the meeting to be held for the purpose at Lewis' Hotel, some arrangement j will be made for carrying out the proposal.