Untitled

Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3103, 24 July 1894, Page 2

“ Facts and Figures” and other interesting reading matter will be found on the fourth page to-day. A good baker wants a situation as cook. The New Zealand Times , having come under the Ministerial boycott, is now advertising the Crown lands sales free. We are informed that there is every probability of the Inter-Marine Supply Company erecting a pork factory in Hawke’s Bay at an early date.

The Financial Statement will be brought down to-night. Shall we then know what has become of the £200,000 surplus ? Mr E. M. Smith, the eccentric member for New Plymouth, says that when he gets his ironworks going he will cast a monument of the Minister of Labor.

During the illness of Mrs Putman, matron of the District Hospital, Nurse Emerson of Napier, hat been temporarily appointed to assist Nurse Murphy. We have to acknowledge receipt of a copy of “ Everybody’s Cookery and Household Guide.” It contains a deal of practical and useful culinary information The Examiner takes Rabbit Inspector McPherson’s report from our columns without any acknowledgement. According to the Hon Captain Russel], many promising young settlers with money who had intended taking up land in this colony have been driven away by the land legislation of the present Government. No security of tenure was the complaint. A severe storm was experienced at Woodville on Saturday and a heavy slip took place in the Gorge. It was cleared away on Sunday and the trains ran as usual yesterday.

Pr rnier Dibbs of New South Wales is not afraid to tell an audienco what be thinks uf them. While speaking at Orange recently he was subjected to a deal of interruption, and he told those present that they ‘‘ were a cowardly set of ruffians.” Canada has a homestead law. Farm lots Of 200 acres nre granted to each head of a family, and 100 to each male adult on condition of their building a log house 16ft by 20ft. cultivating fifteen acres in every 100, and residing six months in each year during five years on the property. A remarkable affliction recently befell a shoemaker in Warsaw He became blind in the left eye on a Monday, regained the sight of that eye on Tuesday, and became blind in ti e right eye. This alternation continued for eight months, and ended in incurable insanity. The Yankee who utilised a wart on the back of his neck to button his collar to is not in the race for the boss mean man after all. At a Baered concert given down South by the Blind Students, a gentleman accompanied by three ladies dropped a threeoenny bit in the collection plate on behalf of the lot. Calling to the usher the astonished treasurer said, “ Her*', Charlie, give that man sixpence to get a drink—he needs it,” and evidently he did for betook the “ tanner.”— Truth.

The bush tr«in was delayed 50 minutes yesterday morning through a spring under the tender breaking soon aft°r leaving Ormondville. Christchurch Truth waxes sarcastic at the notion of the Waipawa Fire Brigade sending out a foraging committee to secure supplies for their ball.

The Lithgow aldermen propose to give work to the local unemployed in metalbreaking, and thus allow some who are in arrears in payment of rates to perform work equivalent to the amount doe. John Ross, an old veteran, who was reduced almost to penury by the collapse of banking institutions in New South Wales, was sentenced to seven days’ bard labour at Masterton the other day for being an habitual drunkard. Says Christchurch Truth :—A man named Antonio Zala, who is working on the West Coast, has driven single-handed a tunnel fully 1000 ft. He has struck a 20in reef which is yielding an ounce to the ton extracted by a herdan worked by hand. Well done, Antonio, you deserve your good luck.

A Christchurch paper says :—As showing the proportions to which the plantations in Hagley Park have attained, it may be mentioned that the Christchuroh Domain Board is calling for tenders for the purchase of about 750 oak, ash, sycamore and other trees, now standing in the park, many of which are suitable for tbe requirements of implement makers aod carriage builders. Traffic between Danevirke and Webei is at a standstill owing to slips on the roac at Kaitoke. The County authorities an trying to make arrangements with th< natives to allow a roadway through theii paddock hut up to the present the negotia tions have been futile, for the owners de mand toll from all passengers. By notification in another column r will be seen that the annual Hunt Dinner is to be held in the Empire Hotel Waipawa, on the 9th August. It is to be hoped that a large number of hunting men will attend and help to make the second dinner as great a success as the one last year. The sheep shears, which it is said will

supersede not only tho old fashioned implement, but even the Wolseley machine, are shortly to be placed on the market. It is on somewhat the same principle as the Wolseley machine except that the motive power will bo supplied by a strong spring in the body of the instrument, which will require winding, like a clock, at intervals. At the last Napier Agricultural and Pastoral Show, Nelson Bros offered a special prize for the best pen of sheep suitable for freezing. The pens were Border L- ioesters, Lincoln, cross Lincolns, Shropshire, Lincoln Merino (first cross), and some heavy Merinos. Tbe judges at the show awarded the prize to the Shropshire Down cross, though Mr Nelson con siderod the Leicester-Lincoln cross pen the best. On arrival in London these sheep were submitted to several expert butchers for their opinion. The result is now to hand. Tho butchers were unanimous in confirming Mr Nelson’s opinion, putting the Down cross next to the Lincoln-Merino as second quality, and the Merinos as quite unsuitable to the English market. From Kurow, near Oamaru, comes the report of a red-letter day in tho history of that township. On a recent Sunday tbe side streams of the Waitaki were frozen hard. The oldest settlers in the district have not seen the river frozen hard in their time, and the banks were crowded from morn till eve. There being only one pair of skates in the township, one can imagine how they were rushed by those auxious to try their skill on the ice, and many were the falls of both skaters and sliders. The game infused fresh life aud

vigour into some of the elders, and the Scotch phrases incidental to the game soon began to trip, haltingly at firet, from t'leir tongues. Thus the writer of “ farm notes ” in the Ilawcra Star : —lt was with surprise that I received news from Mr Wells that a margarine manufactory existed in New Zealand. He informed me that there was one on the other coast, hut that it was private, no visitor being allowed to witness the process of making butter without cream. What we want with a margarine factory is difficult to tell. It surely cannot be that the article is intended for local consumption, and if it be for export then tho Now Zealand butter has another competitor in the field. Mr John Duthie M.H.R. has not a very high opinion of Waipukurau as a healthy locality, judging by his utterances in tho House. Speaking on the Abbatoirs and Slaughterhouses Bills, said that on a recent visit to Hawke’s Bay he was at Waipukurau, and be was very glad indeed to get away from the place. The companies there were allowed to deposit the offal on an adjoining paddock, and they did not even bury it. The consequence was that in calm weather there was a great stench, and, no doubt, disease was thus caused in the neighborhood. Evidently the County Council had not tbe courage to enforce the law against the local companies By an alteration in Part 11. of the regulations for the whole of the Government railways it is provided that where milk is sent by rail to dairy factories, and the consignors of tho milk have their skim milk sent back to them, the skim milk will be conveyed free of charge in the cans returning from the factory By an alteration in Part 111. it is provided that when a truck is only partially occupied by a consignment of live stock, the Com missioners have a right to fill it up to its full carrying oapacity with other stock Where a truck is specially required by sender the truck rate will be charged. As showing how profitable a business dairying is under the management of a man who knows his busiriHßs, we extract the following from the Canterbury Times' Ashburton correspondent :—“ About 20 years ago a man went down the South Western railway, about one hundred miles, and commenced to milk a few cows for tbe London ronrket; the business increased upon his hands at such a rate that he soon bought milk of liis neighbouring farmers, and presently disposed of all his own cows, becoming a dealer only. In less than ten years he sold tbe goodwill ot the concern fnr £IO,OOO, and the buyer has now turned it into a limited company, with a capital of three times that amount This is not a solitary case, and milk is now being taken for London up to a distance of 250 miles The oth- r large towns are doing the same, and dairymen are netting something like 7d per gallon for their milk at tho nearest station, and consequently the output of b'nglish butter and cheese is decreasing. Add to this the fact that we can supply grass butter in tbe English winter, and our great advantages are immediately apparent.” The ball committee met last night to pass accounts, &c. The receipts were— Sale of tickets and cash taken at door, £2B Is 0d ; cash donations and to collect, £5 16-* 6d ; total, £33 17s 6d. Expenditure—Music. £6 ; printing, £3 ; hall, £3 ; A. Breuer, £1 7s ; Union Brewery, 15s ; 11. Baker, 12s 64 ; Rollo and Co., 3s 3d ; A. Scrimgeonr, 12s ; S. Cracknell, 5s ; petty cash, 12s ; total, £l6 6< 9d ; leaving a profit of £l7 10s 9d. Votes of thanks were passed to all the ladies of the town for their valuable contributions to the supper tab’e ; to Mrs Scrimgeour for the loan of the necessary table gear and for laying the table ; to Mesdames Cracknell and Watts, and Messrs Pizzy and Watts for assisting during the evening. This concluded the business.

The following will represent Waip aw in a football match with Waipuku»- au be played on Scrimgeour’s paddock morrow afternoon Full back, J. Mill er three-quarters, E. Ratbbone, Irvine, auH Reed ; halves, Sturm and Peters ; f O , wards, Collett, Hopkins, Garrett, Brow o McSherry, M. Sebley, Stone, Beaumont and H. Sebley. Emergencies, Wall ao ’ Kroupa, and Newman. The kick off tak ’ place at 2.30 p.m.

So after all cays Truth tbe colony ku to face a falling revenue. We have th t Hon. R J. Seddon’s word for it, and ob such a subject it may be accepted. Bohow about tbe prosperity which Minister; and their servile Press have been talkio. so noisily about. Are facts getting toe strong for them ? Revenue falling, prU of produce falling, value of land falli nt volume of business falling, this sound; unpleasant. Debts increasing, borrowing increasing, number of unemployed increa* ing, demands on charitable institution increasing, calls on private benevolence increasing at express speed, this, aided to the other sounds most unpleasant still Truly a picture to call up stern thought! anent the “Great Liberal Party ” Govern, naent,

r There has been an exceptional amount of sickness in the district during the puj five or six months and constquently th e district hospital has been overcrowded f ot some time. The nursing staff has bee! overworked and it has become apparent that an additional nurse is required. do not know if the hospital authority intend to make another appointment, but they should consider the matter without much delay. It is poor economy to save a few pounds a year when a person’s lif t may be eudangerod by want of prop®, attention, and it also is decidedly unfair to work the willing horse to death. If is true, as we have good reason to believe that the matron and nurse have to work 15 and 16 hours a day, it is about time they had another assistant. There are now 31 patients in the hospital, and o 0 unprejudiced person can say that two nurses and a matron would be too big t staff to attend to such a number of persons.