General News.

Waikato Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1440, 28 April 1914, Page 6

General News.

Niuct.rn - tuberculosis cows hi a 'held of 15 is a startling percentage. Ijlt was found in the herd of the man i-supplying the Christchurch (With milk, and the cows were killed. The inoculation of -.calves in the Hawera district has been completed, and approximately 18,000 have passed through toe stock inspector’s hands, about 1,000 more than for the corresponding, season last year. The bank-note scare has somewhat worn off, but few will know the total amount that has been lost through the acceptance of the forged ‘‘ tenners.” Several banks were victims before the Symonds St. Bank agent discovered the fraud and one bank is ; said to have'had twelve of the for- , geries accepted, but- they are quiet about giving details,, A host of our friends the publicans have fallen in heavily as well. When it is remembered-that in an ordinary column there ..are, 10,000 pieces of type, that there are seven wrong positions each letter, may;; be put in, and there are 70,000 chances to make errors, besides millions- of chances of transpositions, you will mot be too critical. In tbe sentence : To be or not to be,” by transposition alone it is possible to make 2,759,022 errors. So you -■ see theperils that bos;t a printer.' Nelson, Moate and Co., have been advised that they have, received first and special prizes for blended teas, against all competitors, at the Auckland Exhibition ; also first and special prizes for their collection of Ceylon, Idiau, and China teas, and first prizes for their Nelmoa coffee and cocoa respectively. ' So far back as 1882, at the New, Zealand International Exhibition, .this .firin was awarded tbe only gold and first silver medals for blended teas, in competition with Australasia. The house of Nelson, Moate is now in the 35t?h year of its existence, its headquarters in Wellington, and there are branches in Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin, Hobart, and Colombo.. .Mr H. Nelson, the founder, still takes the leading part in its management. “There are still a number of people who view with a certain amount of concern,” says the Ashburton Guardian, “the fact that there three women to every man in the world, and if the epidemic of births of baby girls which "it was said was raging in Ashburton recently had kept on much longer these fears probably would li-y'e become greater, and, as lar as the Ashburton County is concerned, the comparative figures would have shown a greater disparity between males and females. It is reported that at one nursing home a Dw days ago' there had been a succession of twenty-two baby girls boiv. Quite-recently, however, two baby buys broke the spell.”'

‘, The average life of the common vegetable seeds, as given in Vilmprin's tables, is as follows : -Beaus, 8 years; beet, 6; borecch or kale, 5; broccoli, o ; cabbage, ,9; carrot, 4to 5 ; ,cauliflower, o ; celery, 8; cress, :5 ; watercress, 5 cucumber, 10; egg'plant, 6; endive, 10 ; s kohl rabi; 5 ; leek, 3; lettuce, 5, maize, 2; marjoram, .(sweet), 3; musk melon. 5; , mustard, (salad), 9; nasturtium, 5 ; onion, '2 ; parsnip, 2 ; parsley, 3 ; peas, 3 ; -peanut, 1 ; pumpkin, 4 to 5 ; radish, 5 ; rhubarb, 3 ; .salsify, 2; sea-kale, I; soy bean

A Mastertbn motorist, who has' just returned Irom a trip to Hawke’s Bay. relates a story ol what he describes as a record mean action. A motorist who was making for Napier had the misfortune to have a disablement to bis car, which he could not repair. ’ He accordingly left his car oh the roadside and took the train to the nearest town.' On his return,.an hour or. so later, with the necessary part he was surprised and disgusted to find that during his absence the sneak thief had been busy, •Everything that could be conveniently 'removed, including the whole of the outfit,'was missing, and the unfortunate traveller had to seek further help, arriving at his destination several hours late. “Oh, Selina! your cough sounds most dreadful, You’ll have to take something, I’m sure; Get your mother to send to the chemist’s For Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Mamma gives it to me and to Tilly . When wa have a cough or a Add No It’s the nicest and best ever sold.” HACKING COUGH. “ For about two years my son Eric had a nasty hacking cough,” savs MiAlbert W. Coleman, “ Caramba,” Mon. -curti reet, Dulwich Hill, N.S.W. “ Then I gave him Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and after a few doses noticed he had greatly improved. Befoie we had <nven him the whole bottle his cou<*h had completely disappeared. He Ta now strong and well and gaining weight daily.” ° Ths famous - lloslvn Writing Padobtainable from all sta,tinners and stores keepers, at 61 and 1/- ejch. I '