TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11372, 3 September 1908, Page 6

TOWN EDITION

A mail for Southern ports, per s.s. Fanny, closes to-morrow, at 2 p.m. At the District. Court sitting at Masterton, a dentist was allowed exemption under the Dental Act of last year. The Gisborne Rifles will have a fulldress inspection at the drillshed to-mor-row night. The City Band have kindly consented to parade -with the corps and join them in a march. ilr G. R. Croll, manager and chief engineer of the Waitara freezing works, has removed to Hastings, and is to act as general manager and consulting engineer for the linn of Thos. Borthwick and Sons. ■ The Agricultural Department is arranging, through the Taranaki A. and P. Association, in conjunction; with one or two farmers', to make some experiments in the ploughing-in of green manures on some of the lighter and poorer soils in Taranaki. Three Maoris, who had been, out fishing on Sunday, experienced a capsize •while coming through the surf (says the Opunake Times). One of them got under the boat, and it was only by the efforts of the other two in lifting, the boat that he was enabled to escape. The Wairarapa Times 6atirically states : The Upper House has been troubled with the problem of "How- to prevent being buried alive." The remedy is in- the hands of Legislative Councillors — they have only to resign their appointments. ''I admire the caution of this witness, especially for a person in his position, said Judge Haselden at the District Court, Masterton, when a bank manager was giving his evidence in a very circumspect way. "I shouldn't like to have to ask him for an overdraft," replied Mr Herdman, who was conducting crossexamination of the Avitne6s. A rather amusing little comedy was enacted on a recent Sunday in a Chinese vegetable garden at Masterton, where ten Celestials were occupied in digging. Two railway employes (says the Wairarapa Daily Times) approached, the fence, and one of them pulled out. his book and pretended to write. First one and then another of the Chinamen looked up, and, sticking his spade in the ground, scraped his boots, shouldered his spade, and the whole lot filed off to their whaire. In an article on "Agriculture at Home and Abroad," which appeared in the London Standard recently, the writer says : ''Th-e exports (of shorthorns) show that the foreign and colonial purchasers of the chief British breed of cattle— as shorthorns must nowadays be considered — hare included in tlie past twelve months Argentine, Australia, Canada, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Natal, British East Africa, Germany, and. France. The neglect of short horns by the United States,, New Zealand, Holland, and Denmark is curious, but the splendid demand for. Argentina deserves to be called th""e event of the society's year." The Medical Press and Circular of July 24th says openly what has long been tacitly accepted as the truth about Mr Joseph Chamberlain's state of health. "We are reluctantly forced to the conclusion," says the journal in. question, "that the veteran statesman is very unlikely ever again, to lead his followers in the Parliamentary arena, or to meet his adversaries in equal combat on the platform. Tenderly cared' for . and living under assigned conditions, there is every reason to 'hope that Mr Chamberlain may be spared to us for many years to $ome. but we . apprehend, speaking physiologically, that as a politician his active days are over." Mr Chamberlain's mental breakdown dates' from his visit to South Africa after the war, and friends from Birmingham who met j him on arrival at Southampton were struck by his changed appearance. *Devotedly cared for by his wife, and guarded against knowledge of his condition, the former champion of many causes is, perhaps, for the first time, since ,his youth, dwelling in an atmosphere ..of serenity. * • Mr C. Lewis, gave notice in the House (says the Press) of two questions that will make nastoralists throughout the country smile: — (1) To ask the Minister of Labor whether he will endeavor to in-* duce his colleague, the Minister for Public Works, to provide for co-operative laborers and men employed upon the railways as the same standard of accommodation as the Shearers' Accommodation Bill seeks to provide for shearers, or, in the alternative, will he amend the said Bill in the direction of establishing the same standard of accommodation for shearers as a Liberal Government provides for its employes ? (2) To ask the Minister of Labor whether he will arrange with the Public Health Department and the Government Printing Office for the immediate supply of 4302 medicine chests, and an equal number of books on first aid, so that owners of a thousand sheep, or over, may be in a position to eomplv with the provisions of the Shearers' Accommodation Bill? (Note: The matter is of some urgency, as shearing will commence in October*) Tiie Wangauui Herald tells tliis story : A bailiff — a well-known, celebrity — had been put on to the dairy farm of a witness at the Supreme Court, and' had laid claim to the milking conveniences, and to the horse, trap and harness used to •convey the milk to the factory, some two miles distant. His stay on the. farm extended over some ten days, and in order not to be over harsh to the dairyman, he consented to allow the trap, etc., to be used\ daily to take the milk to the factory',--' ■ stipulating, however, that he (the bailinff) mu6t accompany the- trap and driver each morning. The driver was a little chap of but 5£ summers, a- son of witness. "Is it not a fret," asked counsel, "that the boy endeavored, on one occasion, to wake off with the trap and cans?" "He did on one occasion return from the factory without the bailiff," was the reply, "but did so because he got tired! of waiting for him to return." "Rather a smart boy," suggested counsel. "Yes," replied the proud father, "he is a good boy; I could do with a few more like him." A 15-year-old girl, Miss Margaret Kuler, is to be made an honorary member of the New York Fire Brigade in recognition of her unexampled heroism during a recent fire in the east side of the city, which rendered 15 families homeless. While the panic-stricken people were struggling madly to escapo, the men trampling on the women, the girl mounted one of the iron staircases attached to the outside of the house, forced a way into a smoke-filled room, took a baby from its mother's arms, and carried it to safety. Then -she returned 1 . tot>k the woman's second child, assisted the fainting mother to her feet, and guided both to the fresh air. For a third time the girl ventured into the suffocating room. "I bent low, as the firemen do." she said afterwards, ''and heard a woman's voice. She was helpless, and had a baby and an older child. 1 took the baby and pulled the mother with me." Next the girl mounted to the fourth floor, and rescued another woman and her baby. She went back yet «mce more, and "led an eight-year-old buy to safety, after which the' firemen arrived and relieved her of her task.