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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10417, 1 April 1910, Page 3

The local Woollen Factory is being seriously hampered by the difficulty in getting sufficient hands i<> do the work, whirl) increases with I lie fust growing popularity of the mill's productions. Mr John Maepherson has written a letter to us approving of our advocacy of a grain shed at: Willowhridgo. but reminding us that a simitar convenience is required at Tot.ara. where, since the subdivision of the estate, production has been greatly increased. M) Maepherson is thanked for drawing our attention to this serious want of a grain sh"d at Totara. and for his helpful recognition of the need of the same convenience at Willowhridgo. I'robablv. as we said in otir article, there are other places in our district when' sheds are required. "\Ye hope that those who require them "ill not allow to pass the opportunity of appealing to Cfcsar in the person of Sir Joseph Ward, now that he is in (he South and will return North in a few days. 11 transpires that the statements concerning the landslide at Tcrapa, telegraphed from Auckland, were unreliable, like much else that comes from -the same sdurce. such as the declarations about Mr Knyvett. The village of Waihi still smiles in its uative beauty, and the Maori lost his life through his own carelessness. The damage caused by the slide was inconsiderable and. there appears to be no danger of a repetition of such an occur iciice. V* T e dare, say that our readers were surprised .at the number of sheep that were placed upon this deck of the. steamer Koi, which cam.- to. grief near the entrance to Nelson harbor during the recent storm. It seems madness that-a vessel of 53 tons, at the mercy | of' such weather as prevails in the Strait, should have a deck cargo of 287 siaeep and lambs. It is stated,that I this is within-the regulation number;

but. if so,, the regulation is as good as nothing. What room could be loft afier accommodating such a crush of those nnitftals on tho dock of a vessel ot 53 tons? Tho account of the mishap toll? .lis that there wore np passengers on board. Thpt was fortunate. But now would passengers have fared In juxtaposition .villi 28/ helpless sheep on •••urli a trip,.or indeed any other? Then- were limes, not king ago, when green hides and other objectionable cargo were put in the. apartments on ;"le:;.iii"is locupird hv second saloon pass; ligoir. and no one dnred to utter a won! of protest. Things are not so bad in our day, hut they are bad enough. Those who strive to make money too frequently have no conscience.-, wivo those which are provided uy the law. If the :tiil horitios are not now cognisant of the fact th.it the steamer was not. .seaworthy with such a lead in . ueh seas as it is liable to en-<-oiiiiter, they are not lit for their positrons.

There was a small increase only in the amount of Customs revenue collect ed at Oamaru during the quarter ended March HI. The total of revenue was i'i'Jil 8s lid as compared with £'2ll*2 9s, collected in the March quarter of 19(19. Of the 1911) total £f>Sl 7s (id was collected in March, whilst £97(1 18s 4d was collected in March 191)9. The chief exports from Oamaru for the period from March ]■', to .March .'II, 1910 i Here as follows : Kronen lamb. Io.KU carcases (I7oficwt>, valued at CB7SI : frozen mutton, '-'Wilt carcases (llOScwt), valued at £I;Vil; tallow. 37 tons, valued at £877: wool. .".71 ,l«1 lbs, valued at L-_'(i.B7".. Tiie Hon. Mr Millar intends to per--imally investigate the Commission svsi.ci) of rcilwav mairigc ineiit in Australia, so that lie may be able, we suppose, to speak authoriiatixelv on the subject in re])ly to Opposition rcjiro-.,eni>ii->ns as to its acKai.iagos. The Railway Commissioners ol Victoria are oo Handy (iiawing attention to the system and to themsel.-es thiough recurring accidents on \;.» lines. After all, it. is better that tin- public should onjo\ a. sense of safetv than that, by economy which mav hi pioductive oi serious'dangers, the raihva\s should be made to pay i: slighth higher percentage of profit. The rainfall registered at Oamaru for the month of March was only (l.ooin. Rain fell on four davs, the maximum fall being O.oOin on the 10th. In the north of Scotland we have been told of late that agriculture will cease to make progress because whisky has increased in price. Some would have us believe that- a diminution in the national thirst would ruin the large farmer. This, of course, is hard to believe.

Numbers of men are being placed in employment, through the medium of the British Government's Labor Fxehanges. Three little girls at Llandovery recently were summoned lor playing in the street, and before Ibo magistrates they said Ihal they bail no other place to play in. Mr Joseph K. Thomas, Seattle. Washington, saw an account of the case in one of the maiiv Welsh papers that find their way to the Fnited States, and he forthwith u folio the toun clerk of Llandovery, )::<. native town, enclosing CIHII a: a t:>i" leils of a fund for purchasiii". a ii-'Tch-tion ground for I he children. Tin' annual meeting ol the North Otago Ladies' Hockey Club was held last, evening in Itartriim's Itooins, there being a large at tendance of members. The President. (Mr 11. Milligan) wa-- in Ihu chair. The annual report as published by us was adopted, and satisfaction expressed at the successful season just, elided. The following officers were dlllv elected, vi/,.: Patroness, Mrs F. Millier; president-, Mr IL Milligan ; vicepresidents. Mcsdnmcs M'Calluni. Jenkins. Douglas, James Sinclair, James Heid. ami Miss Ferguson, Messrs C W. Cooke. 11. Thomas. Straehau. Wvlie, 1-1. M'Donahl. and J. M. Blown ; captain. MissD. Moss (re-eleele.l); dcplltyeapliiin. Miss N. Falconer; secretary, .Miss (.'. Mlvlh (re-elected); committee— Misses Main, Moss, lieid. A. Hohcrlsnn, and I) Winslc.v. Alter discussing arrangements for the coming season, voles of ("hanks were passed to lasf year's officers, and die-meeting terminated.

Seven applications were received at. the Crown Lauds Office for section It'Ja. and USa, Kauroo Settlement. Their combined area is '.VA7T acres, and the rental is CI')!) 1 'is per half-year. Two of the applications were received too late to participate in the ballot on Tuesday, which resulted in favor of Mr Jaiues Miller, of Mabeno. Mr IL 11. Idiodes, Chairman of the Waimate County Council, writes as follows: I have been informed .several times that traction-engine owners in South Canterbury cannot haul grain in Waimate County, because according to a county by-law they are not allowed to haul two trucks, each containing not more than two tons, or four tons in all. I may say that I have been told this, not only by ratepayers of tho county, but also by one if not two trac-tion-engine owners. I am told that they have been so advised by their solicitors. I am not a solicitor, but. only an ordinary farmer, and so 1 do not pretend to know what meaning the by-law made with a view to regulating tractionengine traffic may convey to the solicitor employed by the traction-engine owners. But iis Chairman of the Waimate County Council, I should like to inform the ratepayers of this county that the Council's intention and desire was to allow traction-engines to haul on the county roads two trucks, each bearing a load up to five tons, or ten tons iir all. Anil as chairman of the Council 1 can assure traction-engine owners that so long as they do not put- more than five tons of grain on each of their two trucks, they need not have any fear of being molested by the Waimate County Council. As many people have wondered just what Lord Kitchener thought of tho New Zealand Volunteer Force as material for building up an army, a statement made, by his Excellency the. (Jover-i-.or at Port Chalmers is interesting, .says the Otago Daily Times. "1 had the privilege of spending a. week in the company of Lord Kitchener," said Lord J'lunkct, "and he told me many things which I would like to tell you, but which I may not repeat. But one thing I will say. Lord Kitchener regarded the troops he saw ill different places in this country as being material for absolutely magnilicent soldiers. In sonic respect.s he thought them almost perfectly adapted to the purpose ill view. He said that if these men were trained as they ought to be trained, under his or some similar .scheme, 'New Zealand would then have a force that, might cope with a highly trained and disciplined lore" that, might, be sent against, the Dominion from any part, of the world. Is not any sell'-sacrilicc worth wliil" if il. justifies an opinion like that:-'"

Tin- question has been raised n.s to I lie amount of wages paid in Japan to laclory hands and others, and m this council ion .some figures from a recently issued census of wiip's earned in Osaka, the chief manufacturing centre of that country, should be ot interest. In the census the wages arc expressed in yen and sen, which lor practical purposes may be represented—the former as worth 2s and the latter as equivalent to one laithiiig. Impressed in British currency, the daily wages of tin: employees named are as follow: —Spectacle; and precious stone-workers, Is; masons, 2s Hid-; firework-makers, 2s sd; shipbuilders, 3s (I.Jfl ; carpenters, 2s Od, and tbejr assistants, Js> lO.Jd. Female workers receive from 20 to 30 per cent, less than men. the highest daily wage for women being paid to hat and soapmakers. Is .M. and artificial flowermakers, Is SM. Among male operators, low-paid kinds are "foreign" um-brella-makers. Bijd ; soap-makers and bamboo oipe-makers, 3 T d ; and printers, 4Jd. The lowest wages for women are 3Jd for weavers and tortoiseshellworkers, and 2?, d for umbrella-sewers. Among workers who are paid by the month, sake brewers receive 14s and food, watgh menders 3()s and food, and saddle and harness-makers 42s and food. Domestic service is very badly paid ; ordinary men-servants 'get . lis per month on the average, female domestics from 7s to 10s per month, exclusive of food. Too much blood in the brain —that's what makes your head ache. Stearins' Headache Cure regulates the circulation—estops the pain —cures headache quickly. Is a box. 19 Mr S. J. Davys, Dentist, will visit Kutow on next,, 7th April, and may be consulted at Spiers' .Hotel. 640

We have received from-the publishers, Messrs C. Mitcliell and Co., Ltd., London., the sixtv-fifth annual issue of Newspaper Press Directory and Advertisers' Guide"—the 1910 issue. This Directory is the standard work of reference amongst advertisers and pressmen in Great Britain. The Directory's survey of the newspaper world of to-day is" as interesting as it is informing. It docs not content itself with lists alone, but goes behind the scenes, as it were, and has much to say about newspaper people and newspaper prospects in all parts of the Empire. It contains well-written and injforming articles on "The First Imperial Press Conference," from the pen of the secretary, Mr Harry E. Brittain; obituaries of prominent newspaper men who died during 1909; and an important annual article by Hugh Fraser, LCD., recounting under the title of 'VThe Legal Year in Relation to the Press," the various cases in winch points of "newspaper law have been decided in the Courts within the same period. The Colonial and Foreign section of the Directory is-of unusual fullness, not only as regards its excellent newspaper gazetteer matter, but m providing a series of articles on the trade conditions and prospects of the various overseas possessions. A meeting of Justices of the Peace called for tffis morning for the purpose of revising the district jury roll was attended by two justices—Messrsß; Milligan and G. Brownlee Together they read through the list of some 600 odd names and struck out such as were not eligible to be summoned to serve as "these twelve good men and true.

' In the South Canterbury district, cs'pecially around St. Andrews, there is an abundance of grass; in fact the plenitude of feed has been, to one farmer at least, a source of some inconvenience. The grass had grown luxuriously in a 30-acre paddock which he had determined to lay down in crop, and which was waiting for the plough-; It was almost a sin, he thought, to turn over such a field. A drover with a flock of 2000 sheep was in the locality and the farmer almost implored him to turn the flock on to his land. The drover "generously" heeded and cot four days' feed for his kind action. Such grazing in time of need would have been worth quite an ap-

preciable amount. Mr Charles Frohman's novel scheme to establish an ocean-going theatre, according to the New York correspondent of the Daily Express, has been unexpectedly frustrated by—seasickness. Mr Frohman announced some time ago that he believed the time was ripe for adding a theatre to the attractions ot the modern Transatlantic liners, and oy way of testing public opinion, he proposed to give a performance oi -Mr It.. J. Lake's new play,. 'The Climax,'' on the Mauretania, with Miss Mane Doro in the principal part. Miss Doro and the members of the supporting company were greatly enthusiastic regarding the scheme when they embarked with Air Frohman on the Mauretania. New York theatrical critics waited expectantly to hear the result of the first mid-ocea"n performance. On February 12th Mr Frohman sent tins wireless message from the Mauretania to Mr Alfred fiayman. the New York manager. —"Star is ill; also passengers. JMrst performance in London." Mr T E. Tonevcliffe, who has returned to Gisborne from an overland journey through Poverty Bay and the Bay of Plenty, relates a sensational experience in the Waioeka \ alley. Shortly before he got there a large landslip took place on the Opotiki sic e of Mi D Graham's station. It totally wrecked a settler's woolshed, whith contained a quantity of wool; it severed the bathroom from the house, and twisted the latter from the house. The settler heard the rumbling noise, and with uis wife rushed to get the two children, who were in the bathroom. They had hardlv got outside when the sliding earth" with large tree stumps, struck the bathroom and turned the house round, i

Interesting experiments with the j wireless apparatus were made by the operator on the steamer Makura, or •'the Union Company's line, on the voyage across the Pacific from \ ancouvor to Sydney. The mailbjat was m communication with the mainland for two weeks 'after leaving Vancouver, and it was remarked 011 board that liatl Snva a lid Brisbane possessed wireless stations the ship would have been 111 touch with Canada or Australia all the way across the Pacific. Passengers by the Makura had their mommy newspaper—the. "Makura W :reless . Tll- -' —each day for a fortnight afte. leaving Y'aneouver. It contained 1 budget of tho very latest jjews iroin the United States, coverm" the actual non's contained in tho short newspaper*. All the messages were received by "wireless," and the results of the races ashore were oven included, whilst negotiations for tiie .JettnesJohnson fight figured on tho sheet When the Makura was a long w.i\ this side of Honolulu she spoke the big Pacific liner Korea, bound for Sa u Francisco. The two vessels were steaming in opposite directions, but- mossagis were exchanged over a distance of -111 miles by wireless, the Makil raJ'"'. l "® being 1624 miles this side, of Honolulu. She actually spoke to theCapc I lattery station, too, when 1800 miles off. When the details of Commander Peary's successful dash to the Aorth Pola were published, some comment w as made that Captain Bartlett tlio English captain of the Roosevelt, was no allowed to accompany Peary beyond the 87th parallel. Captain Bartlett has now made a signal statement 111 A ash s Magazine to clear away any misconception that mav exist. He points out that the expedition was jinrolv nn American one. 111 tho final dash imir supporting parties were necessary, and it was distinctly understood at the outset that each one of the leaders of these supporting parties should turn back at a certain point. Each party, consisting of 0110 white man and tour lv>quimaux, did the work for which it was best fitted. For all to go 011 was impossible for several reasons, such as the - additional loss of dogs, consumption ot food, and possible exhaustion of the individual members. I was much pleased when Commander Pearv selected mo lor the fourth or last supporting party and I started out knowing that when 1 got beyond the 87th parallel I should lead ~ hack that supporting party. I hat X should he given this honor was very gratifying to me, and I never for a moment had any idea of going "on to the Pole. All honor should be given Commander Peary for liis almost super- : human endurance of 23 years ot 61 stent effort, and I for one am fully - satisfied if I aided such a man in any ' degree to accon\plisli this task. " Mr Roosevelt is evidently to be boomed for another term of office by Bis Republican admirers, and it is clear "that at present his popularity re- - mains as great as ever. The Chicago •Tribune has taken a poll of every.lmL ; portanfc paper west of the Alleghames, "with results that are remarkably interesting. Of the replies 1360 are for Mr Roosevelt as President in 1912: Mr Taft is supported by 1083; Senator La Folette, of Wisconsin, 197; William J.. Bryan, 40; while 335" votes are scattiered in small sections over a number of less-known men. There is a big mtw jority of States for Mr Roosevelt comprised in these figures. ' -Coughing during the parade services is the subject-of a notice which has been issued to tli© "soldiers .of tho ooiwicti garrison- The Brigadier-General emphasises the inconvenience caused to others by "noisv, incessant coughing, "aid points out that a great many peo-ple-wish to hear the service and the sermon,. and cannot do so unless the coukhing is checked. The troops are reminded that 1 is not good manneis to he a nuisance to others, and fuid it imperative to cough are asked to do so as quietly as possibly. Those with bad colds necessitating incessant • coughing are advised to report them- •' sick. # ' "-Putnam's Sf&gazine for February contains the first of n series of "Talks with Tennyson." by Elizabeth Rachel Chipman. The writer made the quaintance of the poet in October, 1889, when he was in his eighty-first year- -She spent an afternoon at Ald- .. worth, the summer home i of his later years. Tennyson remarked that lie no Joager cared* for Farringford, because '"they leave me no peace there. They crowd and stare as if I was a wild beast. Here, at Aldworth, there was a Sriraghty little American woman who " forced her way in, determined to see me. I; hid- myself for an hour and-a li'klfj" till I thought she was gone. Thai I went out into the garden and'said,

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