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Taranaki Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 14343, 22 October 1910, Page 2

Tho Garrison Band will parade (weather permitting) this evening commencing at the Post Office at 7.30. Referring to bees, tho annual report of tho Agricultural Department states that the environment of the apiary at AVcrcroa Experimental Farm is unsuitable, and tho apiary is to bo removed. Messrs. Ainbury Bros., yesterday afternoon entertained tho members of their staff to afternoon tea to mark tho completion of twenty years’ business in New Plymouth.

Tho New Plymouth Harbour Board yesterday accepted tho tender of tho Westport Coal Company for coal supplies, and Sir. J. IV. West for cab biro. The tenders for ironmongery have not been finally dealt with. Christchurch Technical College is opening hlassc-s in machine shearing AVith shearers ready to strike at a moment’s notice such classes will give farmers’ sons and others a chance of becoming capable of replacing tho unwilling workers. Mr. Hughes, senior, of Waimate Plains, put up what is believed to bo a record on Monday by selling somo Shorthorn bullocks (fat) at tho ago of one year and nine months for £9 per head. Tho stock was reared on skim milk.

Motuara Island, at the entrance to Queen Charlotte Sound, has been found unsuitable as a depot for the Government’s Angora goat herd, which has been removed to Bickorstaffo. Tho goats are proving uesful in the destruction of certain noxious weeds and bushes, and there is a great demand for them. AA'hat are claimed to bo the finest superphosphate works in the world have been erected at West Guilford, AVcstcrn Australia. They cost £IOO,000 and are designed for the manufacture 'of superphosphate, sulphuric, nitric, and muriatic acids. The plant is capable of producing 20,000 tons of superphosphates per annum. Something in tho nature of a record was registered by 23 cows milked by Air. Hugh M'Coll, jun., of Seaward Downs, last season. It is stated that tho herd produced milk that gave a return from each of no less than £l6 16s. This, the Southland News says, is probably a return unequalled in Southland, and it would bo interesting to know whether it has, ever been excelled in Taranaki or other leading dairying districts of Now Zealand,

Adelaide, already tho best paved city in Australia, is now making its footpaths out of the contents of its rnbhish-boxes and ash-barrols. It has got past tho stage at which it hurls the city refuse into a furnace and just burns the stuff; it has got past tho stage even at which, the steam produced is converted into electric current. At its new works the current is achieved all right, but in addition the clinker from the furnaces is made into footpath slabs, and another fragment of the energy is used up in working a disinfector.

A reason why British exports do not sell so well as foreign goods is pointed out in a British Consular report on Gorman Togoland, AVcst Africa. "British exporters,” states the report, v“6ften make the mistake of sending out manufactured products of too good a quality, German manufacturers can produce an article almost identical in iappearance and cheaper in price, although not so good nor so lasting as tho British sample. The Native buyer will . nearl yalways select the cheaper article, seldom appreciating the difference in quality.” Messrs. John Caldwell, Johnston AVylie, and Abram Compton, three Edendalo farmers, have returned from a trip to Britain. As to farm methods, Mr. Caldwell informed the AA'yndham Herald that tho farmers in each of the three countries were far behind Now Zealand. As to the cheese market, Horae merchants were not able to forecast tho market, but Air. Caldwell could easily see that Now Zealand cheese was hold in the greatest appreciation. New Zealand butter, too, has obtained a high reputation. No better butter goes into tho Home market, and it has a ready sale at the present time. Air. Caldwell could see great possibilities for New Zealand in tho supply of pork for the British market. Pork was selling at 67s 6d per cwt. “AVe must freeze our pork and send it Home,” he declared.

A tearful comedy was enacted at tho Carterton railway station recently, when “Love’s young dream” was rudely shattered by the advent of tho girl’s father. Two local people had decided to elope, and quietly went down to the 4.10 "express.” Someone, however, got wind of the affair, and telegraphed to tho girl’s father, who lives m Alastorton. Ho boarded the train at Masforton, and when it stopped at Carterton ho stepped out as the flying couple stopped in. They met at the door, and an argument waxed warm and furious, tho irate pater eventually taking Ilia recalcitrant daughter into tho goods train standing on the side track, and escorting her homo to Alnstcrton. Tho wonld-he bridegroom occupied a scat in the same train, but not in tho same carriage.

Mr. Barnes, of Now York, appearing at the* Tivoli Theatre, Sydney, likes Sydney. In a high-pitch, nasal tone, he relieved himsell ol the following the other night:—“All tho guys on tho boat wore raving about Sydney Harbour. Say, it certainly is immense. There is no four Hushing about that. It is tho reap dope—makes all tho other harbours look liako 30 cents. And talk about Sydney. AVoll, kid, it certainly looks good to mo. 1 thought I’aris was the limit, but this Sydney bunch can go some, and then seine. This is what 1 call a pretty warm berry, or, to put it in another way, it’s all to the mustard. And you’ve certainly got sumo .'■.well-docking dames, and they sure look tho candy in their glad rags. AVell, I nearly put my lamps out piking them off. It will certainly he lough when I’ve got to leave, this hunch and hike it back to New York. But if some fresh stiff scraps Australia to me, I’ll tell him whore to got: off at.” It is understood that Air. Barnes means that he likes the place. Surf bathers will find the Melbourne's stock replete with all the right kind of apparel at satisfying price,. Navy costumes Is Gd and Is 9d, trunks 6d and fkl, navy or red athletes fid each, ladies’ bathing caps Is, large coloured and white towels Is each.*

The services in Queen Street Church to-morrow will bo conducted by the Bov. John Nixon. Morning at 11, evening at 7. All seats free. —Advt. Members of tho Equitable Building Society of Now Plymouth (First and Second Groups) are notified that subscriptions will be due and payable on Monday, October 24, at tho Secretary’s Office, Currie Street, from 9 a.m. to 12.30, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. 0645

The Borough Inspector Jias received instructions from the council to take proceedings against nil persons who allow their chimneys to take fire. The Oakum Dairy Company pays out on the 26th inst, £556 Ifiis lei for September milk as against £477 2s 9d for the corresponding month of last year. A meeting of ladies, convened hy the president ot tho Beautifying Association, will ho held in the Town Hall on Tuesday next, at 3.30 p.m., for tho purpose of making arrangements for afternoon tea on November 10, at “Aoloa,” on tho occasion of tho opening of the grounds to the public. Tho gross proceeds from the New Plymouth Fire Brigade’s recent ball in the Theatre Royal amounted to £B4 & 3d. The expenses totalled £l9 6s 9d, leaving a not balance of £65 Is 6d. This is a record return for these functions, and the brigade, rightly considering that much of the success of the ball was duo to tho hard work done hy Mrs. Dockrill and her committee of ladies, is very grateful to them for their willing services.

From a visitor to tho town, a gentleman able to speak with some authority on the matter, interesting information was given to a Timaru Herald reporter on Monday in regard to proposed alterations in tho through express service. In January next, he said, the Railway Department would endeavour to have the train journey between Invercargill and Christchurch covered in twelve hours, tho express arriving in tho latter city at 8 o’clock each evening. This would mean that tho second express would pass through Timaru at 5 p.m., and in order to facilitate these arrangements the two Yankee locomotives formerly used on the Mauawatu line would bo brought down for yiso on the Christehurch-Timani section. Tho principal reason for these alterations will he the instituting of an every-day service between Invercargill and Auckland instead "of three times a week, as at nresent, which would seem to be possible, because tho Union Company intended adding to their service a 20knot boat. For tennis blouses and all outdoor wear nothing is quite equal if you want cream to “Khantoria” cloth, and at White’s it is stocked in a number of qualities from Is lid to 2s 6d per yard.*