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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 4418, 16 October 1902, Page 2

Rabbit Inspectors’ reports, our Tikokino correspondent’s letter and stock quotations appear on the first page. The reading matter on the fourth page consists of a report of the Waipawa school committee and Interprovincial News.

The Waipawa portion of the ’Frisco mail waß delivered this morning. The annual ball of tho Waipawa Rifles takes place to-night. A total of twenty-three cases of soarlet fever and six of measles was reported in Nehon and district during September. Mr James Oairns, until recently constable in charge at Waipawa, has been appointed assistant town clerk of Masterton.

It is rumoured that there is a possibility of Mr F. G. Cowper, of Danevirke, contesting the Waipawa seat at the general eleotion.

During the past three months in Wellington there have been 13 petitions in divorce, equal to one each week. In the 10 cases tried 10 decrees nisi were made.

A leading Home paper prediots that before long ail the leading oycle manufacturers will be building motor cycleß, and that the present styles of bioycles will be as obsolete as roloeipedes.

The Oook Memorial Committee have received the following sums from schools in this district: —Waipawa £1 15s 7d, Kaikora 9s 6d, Waipukurau 10s, Ashley Clinton 10s, Patangata 2s 7d, Matamau 6s 3d.

The Agricultural Department has informed the Auckland Farmers’ Union that it is considering the question of erecting a sterilizing plant at Auckland for treating imported bone, and thus minimising the risk from anthrax. The ostrich farming industry in Auckland is being greatly developed. It is proposed to largely inorease the dock, and the prospects of the industry may be gauged by the fact that the present supply of feathers is equal to only about one third of the Auckland demand, to say nothing of the southern markets. The sale of butter-fat to the Wellington Fresh Food and Ice Company from the Levin State Farm last year realised about £BOO. The tender of Messrs J. E. Nathan and Co. has been accepted for the butter-fat from the farm for the next twelve months. The price is an advance on that obtained last year. The number of cows now being milked is about 70, but it will shortly be increased to 130 or 140. The trees planted on the farm last season are doing splendidly. A government parade of the Waipawa Rifles was held on Tuesday evening. There was a really good muster of 43 of all ranks, under Captain Collett and Lieutenant McGreevy. The company was sized and put into sections, and went through some useful drill under the officers and non-coms. After parade the company was marched to the hall, where a meeting was held and final arrangements made for the ball. It is Captain Collett’s intention to hold a non-coms, class every Tuesday evening, also a class for signalling. A team was picked to represent the corps in the shoot against the Napier Rifles, on Show Day, and will appear in Saturday’s paper.

In connection with the effort to establish a regular trade between New Zealand and South Africa, the following item of news, oabled by Reuter to the Cape Times, under date London, 24th August, is worthy of attention : —“ The steamer Haversham Grange has sailed from Buenos Ayres, in the Argentine Republic for Capetown with an immense cargo of live stock, frozen meat, a thousand horses, three hundred mules, and three hundred and fifty tons of blitter. The whole of the cargo is valued at £300,000 sterling.” Apparently this competition is one of the factors which induced the contractors for out new servioe to stipulate for the right to withdraw if consignments were found not to reach expectations.