TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10965, 7 May 1907, Page 3

TOWN EDITION

No .time 'trill be lost by the lately-elect-•ied -Borough Council in taking up the 'drainage question. Tli© subject comes up at this evening's 'meeting, when ■ Messrs Hay and Reynolds' -reports will be laid on the table. Our Tokomaru Bay correspondent writes: We are haying very bad weather al/ along the coast. Rain has been con-, tinuous for some time, and consequently the roads are in a dreadful state. . Fot r ", tunately feed is still plentiful, but the outlook here at present points to a long, hard winter'. ' • '. WiLiam, James Lyon's, one of the two men arrested last evening for theft of money, was charged tliis morning with; an additional offence, of damaging u pail in. , the lock-up, valued at 10s 6d. Accused pleaded griilty, and explained he was drurik. ... '.;. Detective Mtiddern stated the* accused coptinued in a\ violent mood a!.l night. He had to, be constantly attended to, and 'eventually his boots had to be removed. A fine of £1 and 2s costs was imposed, accused also being ordered to pay damages, 10s 6d, in default toat davs' ' imprisonment. An application fortinrte to find tlie -money was refused. Mr Cuddie, dairy commissiorier, says that 50 per cent, of the dairy factory managers' troubles were due to the neglect of cooling. Tlie system of the* roration of milk he considered should never have been recommended. It very seldom did riiuch good. H© thought they should abandon the system of seration in favor of the better system of cooling. With the advent .of the milking machine, too, the difficult ties of the managers would be increased, unless those machines were kept in a thoroughly sanitary and clean condition. Those machines would bo introduced by 'hundreds; and it concerned every mil k. supnlier in New Zealand as to' what condition they were going to be kept in. Five seamen belonging to the steamer Arawa were charged at Port Clialmers with having refused to obey lawful commands after the ship had come alongside the wharf. Evidence given by the captain, chief officer, arid purser snowed that the trouble arose through the food f or breakfast bemg: insufficient and badly cooked, mainly oWmgi to the inexperience of a cook who had recently been engaged;The t chief officer and' purser admitted the justice of the complaint when appealed to, and had ordered a fresh meal to be prepared. The/men, still dissatisfied, had been taken before the captain, who had advised them to avert trouble by turning to. after they had had a good- dinrier, to make up. for trie indifferent breakfast. /This had failed to have the desired effect, and the accused were arrested and fined. On Tuesday, 23rd ulk/ Mr H. Robinison, a_Moe (Vic.) farmer, was unable to ! account for the sudden disappearance of one of his dairy cows. The animal, Which had been milked the previous evening, ,tvas enclosed in a securely-fenced paddock. A search w»s made, but no trace of the cow could be found until nearly mid-day on The following Tlnnsday,, two and a half days after her- disappearance. She was found concealed about' 20ft inside a hollow log. Trie animal, it is thought, entered tlie log for shelter from the pelting rain, 'She was on her knees, the cavity in tvhich she was discovered being -only spacious enough to permit of her remain, ing Mn a ' lying-down position/In order to extricate -the beast a large hole was hewn. The coW. on being released rushed madly about the paddock,- until she reached the remainder of the dairy herd/The coV had broken off both htoi'ns while confined in tlie log. ■'.'""' ' An amusing little incident in connection witli- the Governor's recent tour of-Cen-tral Otago 'i s going th? rounds of the back, blocks. ''Wlieri' hjs'E^ellcncy 'arrived at a hamlet in 'the Tl^iefi Gorge we.l-kriowri to travellers by tlii. fragrance of the cup of lea which is dispensed on the arrival of trains, he was most cordially greeted by a tvell-kriown, local celebrity, who subr sequently proceeded with due formality to present* the residents who were in attendance from far and near. In the excitement of the moment his memory was quite unequal tb nememJb. ring all the names, and most- of those who were not within the scope of his immediate acquaintance were dubbed Murphy (for the purpose of this paragraph). Some were Murphys and some were not, but tliat made no difference. The train was delayed, and. concluding his oration, th© spokesman said: lie had indeed been pleased to note that there brad been a recent addition to liis Excellency's family. "Still," was- the good-humored rejoinder, "we are not so numerous as the Murphys yet." Concemirig the federation of . New Zealand and Fiji (says the Dunedin Star), a stuvy is current in the Islands wliich lias, so far, never been published in this colony. Some years ago, 'when federation wa6 tallied, of, it'-. Was necessary to defer tb the native sentiment to a greater, extent than --riiight bs commonly supposed." The natives have the habit, of judging other* nations by the size of 'their cliiefs, and before they would say "Yes" or "Nay" on the federation question they wished to know what sort of chiefs reigned in New Zealand. In the fulness of time a steamer cam© to Suva, expectant crowds of grinning savages gathered on the quay, the gan. way was put over the side, and down it strode the portentous personality of Richard John Scddon. The effect was magnetic. Here was a chief, a proper sort of chief, beside whom even their own rokos and bulis looked diminutive. They reared "Vinaka ! vinaka !" (good, good) for some time, and the Premier, who always knew the catchword with natives, called back "Sambulo vinaka I" in then* own resonant style. That little incident had such effect that if the result laid been left to the natives to decide there and then New Zealand and Fiji would have been one country to-day. The Premier left, however, and later oil there c.ame the-Mnpourikirto* discharge a shipment of everyday politicians. This killed everything; ""These your chiefs?" they asked again, hardly believing their eyes, j .Some of the whites endeavored to explain that they wero only some of the talking I men, but it was no use. The obviousness of New Zealand no longer existed, and with it the dream of federation passed away,