MANGAIA NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13202, 13 June 1906, Page 7

MANGAIA NEWS.

PETITION AGAINST THE RESIDENT [FROM OUR own CORRESPONDENT,] The long-proipiied visit of the Resident Commissioner occurred on the 6th inst., when the Government auxiliary schooner, Countess of Ranfurly, under the temporary chargc of Captain Engelkie. of Barotonga, arrived from the latter place with LieutenantColonel Gudgeon, C.M.G., Messrs. H. M. Connal, Government engineer and surveyor, S. Savage, Government secretary and interpreter and Dr. Pom arc, of the New Zealand Department of Public Health, medical officer for the natives. On the following day (Monday) Chief Judge Gudgeon opened the sitting of the High Court of the Cook Islands in the spacious Government cargo shed at Oheroa, to inquire into the grounds of the petition sent in by the opposition section of the. natives here, applying for the removal of the chief magistrate and resident agent, Major Large, without stating any reason for the step. On investigation the charges urged in support of tho petition were found to be of a trivial nature. Several of - them bad been disposed of at the last sitting of the High Court here in April, 1905, hut were trumped up again. One was in connection with the election of the Island Council, over which there was much bitterness. It was shown that the election had been conducted entirely in accordance with the notifications and regulations under the Act, and that the resident agent's action had been approved by the Government. The- dissentients had only themselves to blame for ignoring the regulations and refusing to nominate their candidates. But Ngaiama—John Ariki's brother sounded the keynote of this party's opposition when he admitted, in his evidence, that the main tiling they had against tin/' resident agent was that lie had been appointed president, of the Island Council, in place of John Ariki, who previously held that, position. Notwithstanding the failure of their petitions before 1 the Court, the hostile party opposed to the Island Council and the resident agent, again assembled at their usual meeting place, and before the Resident Commissioner and his party urged that the resident- agent should be removed, as he had caused a split, in the communitv and he would not attend their meetings. The resident agent addressed them, and held out the olive branch,, which after some delay they took, and came forward and a general all round handshaking took place in token of reconciliation with the resident agent.

A pood whitewash for dairies can be made as follows:—Dissolve two pounds of ordinary glue in, seven pints of water, and when all is dissolved add six ounces of bichromate of potassium dissolved in a pint of hot water, says a. contemporary. Stir the mixture up well, and then add sufficient whiting to make it 1151 to the usual consistency,_ and apply with a brush in the ordinary manner as quickly as possible. This dries in a very short time, and, by the action of light, becomes converted into .1 perfectly-insoluble waterproof substance, which, does not wash off even with hot water, and at the same time does not give rise to mould growth, as whitewash made up with size often does. It may be coloured to any desired shade by the use of a trace of any aniline dye or powdered colouring matter, and, once applied, will last, for years, while by the addition of a small proportion of calcic sulphite its antiseptic power is much increased. Many farmers'act unwisely in disposing of their aged bulls just, at the time when the owners arc able to form an accurate opinion of their values as sires. It .is an old »nd wise, saying, " Judge a bull by the heifers he produces."