TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10140, 29 August 1904, Page 3

TOWN EDITION

The schooner Aotea is ;tt, Waipiro. whi--.iv tli.- ««. is too rough to permit lar to wc-rk cargo

It lias bevm, decided lo vaect a. .stow and landing stage at Tokomaru, at a cost of £1000.

Tlu> following pajcemjers arrived by tlie, Herald from Coast and Auckland this afternoon: .Mr and Mrs DeLautow ; Mess-re Poole, Evans, New ing, and Ngapo and child.

A South Canterbury farmer has threshed three bags of red 1 clover to the acre. These returns, with clover at £6 10s «'i bag or more, make the crop one of themost payable a farmer can grow.

In the Gazette, a Mr Yousuf Abosainra, of Auckland, aunouuces : "That by me, Amy Abosamra, my wife, my present an<li future-born children the "Christian name of David and the surname of Silk will be- assumed, taken and adopted m lieu of the name of Yousuf 'Abosamra."

Never since the opening of the dairy industry m Taranaki have butter buyers been s o numerous as at the present time. Representatives from the wholesale houses are at present doing their utmost to secure the season's output from the various factories.

In a. letter to the Hawera Star, giving some impression of a voyage to 'Frisco, the writer remarks : "Letjme say here that everyone that- I have met, Americans ns well as Englishmen, have nothing but praise for New Zealand generally, and all her works and 'Dick' Seddon m particular."

During an address to farmers at A.shburton. Mr Gih-u-th, Chief Government Veterinarian, kid special stress on the urgent necessity of burying or burning carcases of diseased stock. He contended that the practice of allowing carcases of dead animals to rot on (he surface was the primary cause of the alarming spread of many diseases among both stock and human beings, inasmuch as surface water was contaminated and the disease thus spread abroad.

A survey party brought down to Wanganui from the back blocks last week an old gentleman named It. Testall, 80 years of age, and took him to the hospital for medlical treatment. It seems extraordinary that this is the first time Mr Tcstall has visited Wanganui during 52 years, although he has oeen within 20 or 30 miles of the town. He went on a holiday visit to Kawan m 1852, and has remained ' there ever since. He was born m Bedford. England, had a brother, a doctor, and another m Australia. He is married to a Maori woman.