Untitled

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 4802, 22 April 1905, Page 2

Commercial news appears on the first page. Ah extract frotn the Tablet concerning Father Hays will be found on the fourth page. It is stated that a considerale amount of illegal shooting is taking -place in the Ashurst, Woodville and, Kumeroa dis-, tricts.

Very few volunteers left Waipawa by the special train on Thursday night, to attend the Easter encampment near Greytown.

The Rey. Mr Frost preachejl to a Jatge congregation in the Methodist Church, last night, when he delivered an able sermon on “ St. Paul’s Conception of the Purpose of Christ’s Death.” Messrs Percy Wright and Co., drapers, Waipawa, announce that from May Ist to July 31st their business hours will be from 8 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., Wednesdays and Saturdays as usual. The Tyser liner Marere passed several icebergs on run from London to Melbourne, one of them being only about three days’ steam from Port Phillip Hejids. It is doubtful if ice’ has ever been seen nearer Port Phillip Heads.

A Lincoln sheep brought into Taihape the other day had been running wild for the past three years. It was estimated that the slieep was carrying about 401 b bf wool. The sheep was in splendid condition, notwithstanding this great growth of wool.

As showing what a hold Californian thistle has got on some, parts of the country, we WesUtn Star have heard of a 2()0 acre section, a lease in perDetuity, which has been abandoned by the tenant, that cost, £6O to. clear last year. The “weedhold” aspect of the land question is one that will have to be settled Or it will settle the settler.

Particulars, the sacred.conoert to be helid in St Patrick’s Church, to-morrow evening, appear in our advertising columns. It will be noticed that the progffflnme is w very attractive ope and that some nfasical gems will be rendered. Mrs Harris will sing <( Angels Ever Bright and Fair” (Handel), and her son, the gifted Violinist, will Play a solo. These items should be wprth going a long way to hear; A very learned aspirant for the Burgh Council of Inverness carefully read his speech, and sat down greatly satisfied, for his effort yras eloquent and erudite — so he thought. “ Would Mr Gallie, who gave us such an exhibition of learning and eloquence, tell us his attitude towards the decalogue. said one in the audience. Mr Gallie learnedly stood up, full five feet niue inches, assumed a most i solemn air, and to the audience breath-

jjill declared: “L would be/in f'fcSftpr o't, if it tis-na too expensi** ” •RowfaX)f laughter audianoe. j j down, sit down,** said Sir Henry ; Mo4Jjd)rew, “the decalogue; means: the ' aikouaiti of the Daily Times writes as follows : A useful experiment with lime has just been completed in the public school ijra£pr v'ftljS supervision of the mhßtek Vfcf. Stewart.) Two beds were sown at the end of last November with _red .clqyjat.jead, one of the beds fieing limed, and other conditions being alike/ 1 : The*; elpyeP ’ ! . qqt five months after the seed Was sown, the result being on. th<Mralimed bed at the Tate ot three fans per acre qf dried, do Vet, /apd' Op the limed bed ‘three fads fifteen hundredweight—a fourth more. ohildren were very much Krteresfad hi the experiment, and no doubt will see fae advantage of iudh treatment when they start farming oa their own account. ; f Speaking at Shannon last Wednesday evening Dr Chappie, a director of the Makerua Estate Co., said it might be news that about six months ago a coni l signment of half a ton of New Zealand flax was sent, Ifaipe to England by the company with which he was associated in order to have it experimented on, with the new patented oxi-chloride process for making paper. The first experiments were so successful than an enthusiastic report was sent out to New Zealand. Since then there had been silence,; but by a circuitous oourße it had dome tp be known that the paper produced was of such a nature that the vyhole thing had; been kept quiet, and, moreover, an effer had gone Horae from NeW Zealand to purchase the whole of the patent right of the process for New Zealand.