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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 5704, 25 April 1911, Page 2

During the month of March the estates > f forty-three deceased persons were plaoed under the charge of the Public, Trustee.

The chairman of one of the largest dairy factories in Taranaki said be believed that 25 per cent, of the milk handled at the faotory was water. Raurimu (Main Trunk Line) is to the front as regards fashion. At a reoent tennis social the dresses worn inoluded

a pink k hobble skirt and a white muslin harem skirt. Artisans and labourers to tho number of 6440 were employed under the Public Works Department duriog the month of February. Of this number 3601 were engaged on railway work, and 2830 on roads.

Hop-picking in the Nelson district is nearing completion, and the orop has been much better than was anticipated Prioes have been very good—from Is to Is 2d per lb—and it is stated growers will receive handsome returns. Plentiful orders have beon received at the Groyrnouth sawmills from Australia, for both red and white pine, and as a result tho sawmilling industry thero is in a very flourishing condition, and is likoly to ooutiuue so for some consider able period. During the Faster feried, in Dunedin, over 220 marriage licenses were issued from tho office of tho local Registrar, tho number being probably a record for Dunedin. For the Faster period of last year the number of marriago licenses issued was 189 There are some white Blavos in the South as wall bh in the North Island. A Southland paper states that a farmer’s wife in a rural district, not far from Invercargill, had hand-milked twenty eight cows, night and morning, throughout the preseut season. Splendid indications of petroleum have b'-en found on a farm on Frankley-rrad, Now Plymouth. The farm manager noticed a smell rf petroleum when removing posts, and upon a pit being sunk a considerable quantity of patroleutn was noticed on top of the water in it, and a strong smell ol petroleum was given iff Turnip areas are bringing big prices down South, realising as high uh £lO per aore. One man on the land, who farms just under oue hundred acres, estimates his revenue for the year, for cows aud turnips, at fully £IOOO. He must be a first-class farmer, practical, industrious, and progressive, and his land must be all right. A resident of Nelson makes tho proposal that the Land Tax Department be abolished, thus saving from £30,000 to £40,000 per annum, and that the valuation t o made by lcoal bodies, by whom the tax should be levied, and to whom it should bo paid. Some might levy Bomo some Id, according to their requirements ; all subsidies to be abolished.

Mr Kensington, Under-Secretary for Lands, accompanied by Mr MartinSmith, Orowu Lands Ranger, visited the Lindsay protective works on Saturday and met a Dumber of the settlers there. Mr Kensington expressed pleasure at the buoiosß i f the scheme, which had been skilfully and economically executed. We hear that in all probability a further grant will be made to extend the work, in order to meet the wishes of tho settlors interested.

Whether it is easy to procure liquor at Gore (says the local paper) in a matter that is often debated. On Thursday morning, however, a penitent-looking individual who had spent the previous evening under lock and key, wbb fin.id 5s for being drunk. Wheu discharged from custody at 11 am he was sober, and had £l3 odd iu his possession. At 3.30 p.m ho was lying helplessly drunk in front of tho oourthome with £9 fis 8d in his pockets.

Canada is a progressive country in the m\tter of legislation. Thero is now a Bill before tho Canadian Parliament whioh will make it an offence for any person to give the employee of another person a tip, or for any such employee to accept a tip. The punishment proposed for a breach of the suggested law is a fine of forty pounds sterling (200 dollars), and iu default of payment of such fine a maximum imprisonment for two years.

A Masterton lady, who has a small stream running through her property, Btatos that she lout uo fewer thau 17 duokliogs this last season through the voraoity of eels. Almost every loss was direotly traced to this oause. The unforiuuate bird would be seized either by a foot or a beak and dragged under the water. Numbers of the unfortunate victims whioh managed to reach land again would be minus either a foot or a portion of the beak.

Starting from tho bottom rung of the ladder, in fact almost penniless after two months’ search for employment, a Gisborne boy entered extensive shipbuilding yards iu San Franoi*oo. He was told to pick up bolts and scrap iron. It was tho bottom rung—but it was given as a test. Ho had uo other work to do, and he did it. To day this Gisbornite has earned the well-earned distinction of being the treasurer and secretary of that big institution, with but oue man ahead of him—the president.

Now and again, in fact, pretty frequently, one meets with weather and pocket-worn bank notes, dilapidated with age, and filthy with much handling, vary different in feel and appearance from the crisp, clean, sanitary Bank of England notes that never go out in circulation again after once returning to the bank. A bank offioial at Ohriatohuroh informed a reporter that a bank-note should last six months iu general circulation, but hundreds of them do not last a month, being torn, mutilated, and defaced in vurious ways. Tho bank official assured the reporter that in tis bank alone they had to withhold as many as three thousand notes from circulation every six weeks or an average of about five hundred a week, cancel them, have them taken off the register and destroyed. In his opinion the wilful dofaoing of bank notes is beoorae a eerious matter, and, further, it is an offence under the Banking Act, rendering the perpetrator liable to a severe penalty.