NEWS ITEMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13090, 2 June 1913, Page 9

NEWS ITEMS.

The work of planting' fruit trees is • being pushed on m Central Otago. Re- j cently 45,000 trees reached Dunedin ! from Melbourne, and were all despatch- ' ed to the Central. j The Dairyman says that owing to a ( big drop m the price of cheese several [ of the larger dairy companies are turn- ] ing their attention to butter-making again, and already m South Taranaki the Jolls, Hawera, Meremere, River- j dale, and Normanby factories are manu- ! facturing butter instead of cheese, duplicate plants enabling these companies to I do so. j A bill has been introduced m the \ British House of Commons having for its object ?the prohibition of. the practice of docking horses. The bill provides that any. person who shall perform, or cause to be performed, the operation knoivn as docking upon any horse shall be liable to a fin© not exceeding £25, or m tlie alternative to a' period of imprisonment for one month. -• j The Marlborough ( .Express states that the eastern slope of ' Motuiroa Island, Queen Charlotte Sound, has been recommended and approved as a scenic reserve, alid, a- survey .party pr deeded to the locality last week for* the purpose of marking out the boundaries of the reservation for proclamation. This portion of th© island is covered with bush consisting of the smaller class of native vegetation, the variegated foliage of which presents an attractive sight as viewed from the steamer route which it overlooks. A serious accident occurred' recently at Castlemain© (Victoria) to MrCharles Frisco, of the Uncle Tom's Cabin Dramatic Company. The lady playing the part of Cassie, when firing a re- j volver at Legree, m some unaccountable manner discharged the contents m Mr Frisco's face. He was badly peppered all over the face with the powder, but fortunately his eyes escaped : injury. Al- i though m great pain Mr Frisco went through his part to the end of the 1 play, and he repeated the performance ' next evening. * j

. A short time ago' it was stated that the Nippon Yusen Kaisha.'; Company intended to extend its present JapaneseAustralian steamship ' service to New Zealand, but as no official confirmation of the statement could be obtained the Department of Agriculture, "Industries and Commerce communicated directly with the head office of the 'company m Japan. A reply has now been received to the effect that the company is not atj present m a position to consider the extension :of its Australian' Service to the dominion, or the -inauguration of a direct service. Some of the discourteous people who are always, late fpr public performances were given a lesson at a concert by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra the other, day. The conductor had ' been annoyed j by people moving noisily to their seats while the orchestra was playing the first number, ' and : he arranged to begin' his programme with Mendelssohn's "Scot- ' tish Symphony.-' As there are none of the usual pauses between the movements < of this work, the people who were out- ■ " side when the doors closed had to re- , main there for about 35 minutes. When they crowded m they found that they had missed one of 'the important features of the concert. ' •■ " '• ' - ■ In the course of a lecture at Ballarat (Victoria), Bishop' Green emphasised the need of people using their powers of observation, and illustrated' the point by relating a story concerning a man who had 'be'en'on an extended tour 61' the Old' Country. When the gentleman returned the bishop asked him how he had been impressed by the trip. The' traveller had gone to England by one : line of steamers and had returned by another, and replied tliat one line gave - better meals, but that on the other they were served more quickly. This was the impression of a man who had spent hundreds of pounds on his trip, and who apparently had failed to take advantage of his opportunities for obi servation.' A Wellington correspondent wires : — Within 1 the' last few days speculators' agents ha,ve been vigorously at work m ' the North Island with a view 'to secur- ■« ing.;, an astonishingly large consignment"" of frozei^ meat for- American agents. • So > far as the speculators' tarms have ;', been put to growers and meat works it.;; appears that 'this; meat (if shipped) is to !l be consigned to ,'"&, Pacific port." * Tha ;; object' of the^enterprise is known to re- « late to Ihe chances of a Avar between " America and Japan, and the "Pacific port" m question is undoubtedly Pago . Pago. In commercial ' circles m Wei--: Ungion it is belteved that • the Ameri- ' can Government -are' behind the movement, and it is also believed-^that the same call for 'me-it- is at present being made m Australia.. • •■- . : •*- jAt the Isle qf Wight • County Court, . Ryde, m April last, Sidney P. Lessley, butcher, Shanklin, was summoned for a breach of the Merchandise Marks Act, for selling River Plate mutton ; as New Zealand. Mr H. C. Cameron (Produce 1 Commissioner for the Dominion) r stated that on March 11. he entered the defendant's shop and ' aske<! the manager if he sold New Zealand' , mutton. Ho said ]\2 d'di' whereupon witness asked for a loin, which was cut from a carcase Tsaid to be from New Zealand, and the 'Invoice was marked . . accordingly. A week or so later witness saw tlie defendant, who then admitted ; that the meat supplied was front ' the River Plate. Defendant's manager admitted that although the* *"carcase^ was labelled "new season's mutton/*" "he said it was New Zealand. The- > chairman of the Bench said;- that the? magistrates considered tlie case a serious one, and fined J the defendant, £3 and 26s costs. i Tho city, of \Winni*seg (Canada)! recently offered prizes for a design for a new Town Hall*, '".and' that of Messrs Clemesha and Porthall, , architects, of Regina, .has. been awarded,' t^ie first place with Woodman and. Carey ? ' of "Winnipeg, second.' "' The : ad judication was made by Mr A. Leonard *Stokt"s, president of the British Institute* of Architects, each plan being' ' by- 'a - hnnibei* only, the'key to ; the number' heing kept by true Mayor of -"Winnipeg. The cost to erect the Town" Hall, as designed, by the fii*s*t Ck 'prize architects'/ Will ' be £600,000: ; The buildihg*"is ; "fo be five stories m height;'" 'ft'nd' is a lofty and coinrnanding strjicture. . A stree-t 60ft \vide and oXWt'W, height 1 7*37' to run through Ihe centee bf'the building". It , . has been ' istiggestW by' local drchiliects j tliat 'the 'fairest mariner "of adjudication .;.. m reSpect to' archite'fcturi'l designs Is. to send thbm 11 away to '"a competent -"aiithor- . itv *m 'Englind' 1 or' ; on the Continent, ; without' aity guide" to'- wlio drew' 1 the plaiis, as was done in' the case'o'f v, Winni- \ peg. ■ "' ■'-"* ■■" ■ .' •- •' ■"'■ i Intimation was received .... some . time ago frqni the r British' Ijairy^ 'farmers' j Association ihay.^it was"! willing ,to jin- I jjtide m jhe scjljedule of jits' daify show ' of .1913 a. speijial,, . .class t fo'r. '..colphial * clieesc, provided hot less than 12 en- j tries would be forthcoming. The Agricultural. Department made .inquiries, J and no fewer thiari. 18 "factories indicated ; tliat they woqld be pleased •to make an |- erttry. ; li. liasj beeai with- the r exhibitihg companies, that the, cheese;; will ho collected during the month of j' June, and shipped m one consignment r to the High Commissioner of . New Zea-' *. land iii London/ who' will 'make all • necessary' arrangements ' fbr the cool stor- *, age of t\ve exhibits oijL their arrival, and ' will also see that the' '•staging-- and- show- ; ing of the cheese m the Royal Agricul- . tnral Hall, London, are carried out m \ the best possible manner.*. Tliis will bet the ;. first "occasion •;(s'ay^ihe f !'Pbst) ' on r r which a conipeii'tive exhibitidri of New Zealand cheese has been made at 'the ' great ' dairy' i3how" of London: The dis- 1 play should' act as a splendid ad-vfti'tise'- \ ment for New Zealand Cheddar chefese. 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