NEWS ITEMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11128, 30 July 1907, Page 1

NEWS ITEMS.

The Dunedin City Council have provided their employes at the Waipori hydro-electric works with a piano. Tlie South Canterbury* Dtiiry Cqmpany liave had a profitable year, and will pay a dividend- of 5 per cent, and a bonus to suppliers. The year's turnover was £27,000. Oats are oats this year, remarks the Gore Standard, and merchants liave considerable difficulty m filling orders. : As much as 3s a bushel is being refused for. seed lines of moderate quality, and sales of small quantities of dressed seed have taken place at 3s 3d. With seed oats at 3s 3d and chaff at £5 a ton it is -not a very suitable year for those -who are starting farming. It is reported from Melbourne that inquiries have been made by people interested m tradfe with Java with the view of establishing, a time-table service between thc Eastern Archipelago and Australian ports. The service will be an en. tirely Dutch one. Nothing, definite has yet been decided, but it is. understood that a representative of the company concerned who visited' tive Commonwealth i"ecently was well satisfied with the pros. pecFs; of the service. A huge number of herrings have been thrown up on tlie beach at Picton, and as they jvere 'becoming a nuisance and menace to health,' they are being taken out), to sea m punts. Mr Bruce, the agricultural expert,, considers the fi_h invaluable as a manure, and expressed great surprise that the "harvest was not being taken advantage of by the gardeners ana farmers m the district. He considered it a great waste to dm np the fish back into the sea, as they made one of the best manures it was^ possible to obtain anywhere. . Towards the close 08 the present year several important additions, will be made to.the present intercolonial service. Tlie Union Company will replace the Warrimoo with the new steamer Marama, a vessel. of about 6000 tons, and the Hud-dart-Parker Company will follow suit witiha mew steatmer of about 5000 tons. This vessel, which is to replace the Wimmera, has beenr- christened Ulimaroa, a name chosen by reasons of associations connected) with both colonies. The Ulimaroa was launched at Dundee on July 11, and will be commanded by Captain Free,. R.N.R., on her voyage to Australia. A fireman on the s.s.' Rotomahana was found carrying asliore tlie other day : a bundle containing two bottles of pickles, three of four pounds of tea, a quantity of butter, and .a quantity of other food, and a couple of glass tumblers. He was charged with have stolen the goods from the ship, and tho steward m giving evidence'for the prosecution, said, there were 15 firemen on the Rotomahana, and lately ithey had been receiving 241bs of tea 'and 1021bs of sugar every week, and were each averaging about 21bs of* butter a day. Oin the other hand, the issue to 11 sailors was Tibs of tea and 271bs of sugar per week. The Southland Daily News says that it is evident that accommodation for visitors to lnvercargill will not suffer tlirough the operation of no-license, as large-addi-tions to several hotels are under way or iri contemplation. Mr I. W. Raymond has invited v tenders for a three-storey addition to tlie Railway hotel, which will include fifteen bedrooms, and- it k understood that he intends to adld twenty rooms to the Carriers' Arms private liotel. - Pro- - prietors of tlie Criterion private hotel have also arranged for extensive additions, which will include about a dozen bedrooms. It is not unlikely also that the purchaser of another hotel will ere long have additions made. . According to latest reports from Pferser: vation Inlet (says the Otago Daily Times) it would appear tliat a substantial revival m the gold mining industry is about to take place m that interesting and .picturesque locality. A quartz reef is to be exploited al Cuttle Cove, for which purpose the steamer Rimu landed a large quantity of machinery at Cromarty last week, and also took some machinery, etc., fot the sluicing claim at Gulch's Head, where some very fine samples of gold are said to bave been obtained: •■ A recent visitor to the locality states that he is' of opinion that mining will probably boom down there shortly. It is understood that a good deal of Australian capital has been put into the new venture, wliich it is hoped will turn out more successful than its predecessors. / ■ The East and West Coast Railway, says the_ Greymouth Star, was part of Sir Julius Vogel's original scheme, and would have been loyally carried out if he could have had his way, so tliat the colony has been unwisely kept out of a great and necessary public work much longer than if railway matters had been more wisely ordered. -But the same short-sighted* policy has kept the colony back by not hastening on the construction cf tlie Great Northern Trunk Railway. Perhaps we will learn to do better m the days to come. • Once tlie Midland Railway is com- ! pleted it camiot fail to exercise a great * stimulating power upon the colony at large, and upon the Middle Island hi par. • ticular. The North Island has at last taken the lead m the race of progress, but it must not be forgotten that illimitable mineral treasure awaitg development m., the deeply serrated alpine chain tnat runs tlirough this island. After another ■ five years, when tlie railway is complete, we shall begin to realise some of the national and local .advantages which this great work will confer, and the benefits will be many. ' . t Sir A. S. Adams, who has been elected president of - tlie New Zealand Alliance j for the sixth term, and who presided at j tho recent conference m Wellington, ! states that while tlie balance-sheet on j April 30th showed a debit of £2250, by tjie generous donations of friends of the party throughout the colony, this amount . was entirely wiped' off, and the supplementary balance-sheet presented to the meeting showed a credit, after clearing the deficiency and providing* fbr all liabilities. This gratifying result evidently acted as a spur W the generosity oil the delegates present, for at the conclusion of the conference it was resolved to give tlie secretary (the Rev. ,F. W. Isitt) an extended holiday, and. all the .expenses of the same were collected m the room and presented to the rev. gentleman. Mr Adams says it was-- the most remarkable gathering yet held under the auspices of ! the Alliance. The demand for the .bare majority was again agreed to, and also the demand fou a colonial vote m addition to the local option, vote. Strong resolutions were passed dealing with the brewers' depots at Matattra and Invercargill, and the working of tlie locker system m no-license districts. Reports were received (from tlie representatives of the party m Grey Lynn. Ashburton, Mataura, 1 and' lnvercargill, showing that the new conditions under no-license are answering tlie expectations of the party and proving a great success. "From the general tone of the recent annual meeting," says Mr Adams, 'it was clear that the party are as hopeful as ever, and we look forward to great things at tlie next poll. It would seem that the abolition of the sheep tax, if it be approved by Parliament (says the Hawera Star), "will add to the number of sheep m New Zealand— or at any rate to the statistical number. A speaker m Parliament the other day declared apparently with knowledge, if with some exaggeration, of the facts, that the flocks of the colony are returned at millions less than they ought to be. One cause is that tlie returns are not made until the end of April, by wliich time thousands of lambs which have never been returned have found their way to the freezing works ; and another is that thousands about to be sent to the works are not returned because farmers' consciences are very easy as to giving returns of slieep of wliich they are m doubt. "I know," he said, "that at the end of ! April there are thousands of lambs nearly ready for the works. If a fanner has la number of fat lambs which he knows ! will be going to the works m the next • fortnight it does not cost him any great ' pang of conscience to omit them from the : returns. He is probably not going to ? pay 2s a hundred on sheep that will disappear m a week." The speaker gave mii stances of large mobs of travelling sheep ! not being included, and added that anotJ her reason for "leakage" was that a man ; had to return "sheep owned by him and grazing on his property" whereas m fact i there are thousands of sheep belonging ' to an owner grazing on land not his own, Awhile on the other hand men have sheep grazing on property not owned by them. If you should contract a cold get rid of j it as quickly as possible, for every cold S weakens the lungs, lowers the vitality, : and paves *tyie way for more serious dis- ; eases. 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