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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2955, 29 November 1900, Page 3

Another fine day. The Clerk of the Weather is in. a better humour. Captain Edwin forecasts ; —North to west and south-west wind; glass fall, tides good, indications for rain. A North Island contemporary advocates New Zealanders going in for fruit-growing for export. Wq do not even supply our own needs in this line. We send away £IBO,OOO a year for fruit, and there is no season why horticulture should not be as great an industry as dairy-farming, sheepfarming, or even, mining. We have only to take the example of California, which it does from its mines; more, indeed, and wins as much gold from its orchards as in and through these orchards gives employment to a vast population. Now, New Zealand is quite as well adapted for the fruit-growing industry as the Pacific Slope, which ten years ago shipped away 50,000,0001bs of canned fruit, 40,000,000 lbs- of dried fruit, nearly 30,000,0001bs of raisins, and nearly 90,000,0001bs of fresh fruit, and from which England, alone every year imports over a million barrels of apples, New Zealand being also a very large customer for dried and canned fruits. An Epidemic of Whooping Cough.—Last winter during an epidemic of whooping cough my children contracted the disease, having severe coughing spells. We had used Chamberlain’s Gough. Remedy very successfully for croup, and naturally turned to it at that time, and found it relieved the cough and effected a complete cure.—John E.Clifford, Proprietor Norwood House. Norwood, N.Y. This remedy is for sale by Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association (Ld ) The “ Tuapeka Times ” says that the waggoners’ boom in dredge material is approaching the end. It has lasted a long time, especially when it is remembered what ,a large number of teams were on the road. Every man, or syndicate of two or three men, who could put a. team between a- pair of shafts took advantage of the heavy demands on transport and consequent big freights, and i na little time ,the demand, heavy as it was, was fairly met The almost'entire disappearance* of the immense accumulation) of material for dredge building purposes from the railway station is an indication that the waggoners ’boom is fizzling out, though no -h»ubt there must be still a lot of emplov ment ahead in the carting of immens' -supplies of coal which the dredging fleet, when at its full strength along the reaches of the Molynux rive rand adjacent flats, will require. And ' there is evidently money in coal carting. We are aware of 380 and £IOO a month having been cleared, sifter meeting all expenses, by the owners -> fcoal-carting teams, and other sums equal in proportion to the number of horses engaged at the work. And such work must last as long as gold dredging lasts on the river.

When the Wanganui Borough Council proceeded to elect their representatives :>n the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board tire other evening, Councillor Armstrong brought up the question of electing lady representatives, pointing out that they were better fitted than men for the position. Councillor Bassett said he agreed with the idea of women being on Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards. A large number of the patients at hospitals were girls and women; the institutions were managed by ladies; and he thought they had a right to be represented on hospital Boards, as they had qualifications not possessed by men for that sort of work. He was not authorised to nominate anyone, but he i-onk the responsibility of nominating Mrs Williamson. She took a practical interest in the welfare of the poor, and therof was no one who would attend more conscientiously to the duties. Mrs Williamson was unanimously elected as one of the representatives.

In a letter to the “ Rangitikei Advocate,” Mr J. G. Wilson, of Bulls, gives some information relating to a trial shipment of 200 sacks of wheat which he sent Home by the Waiwera. He says:- —“It was not ■i, first-class sample,—the grubs were so bad in the paddock and it ripened so unevenly that the sample was not so full as it should have been: otherwise it was good wheat. The following were the expenses : Cost, f.0.b., 5.15 d ; freight to London, 10.42 d; other expenses in London, 3d ; total, 18.57 d, practically. Is contract,'3os per 4961b5, top quotation at date of sale, 31s for New Zealand klieat: net return per bushel, 2s Or,cl. Although at the moment of shipping it was worth 2s 2d delivered at the mill, it was not at that price when I engaged space. But it. is satisfactory so far that it shows that wheat grown in this district fetches as (.rood a price as that, from other districts of New ZeZala.ncl, although we have always been told there is no use in sending it to London. London quotations of 30s therefore means net in this district 2s, and by watching prices in London it is easy to gauge whether it Is better to sell or to ship.”