NEWS AND NOTES.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 4, 5 June 1914, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The annual conference of the National Association of Beekeeper.-: ;>f New Zealand will be it eld in Wellington on the 17th, 18th, and I‘Jili hist.

A South Taranaki fanner who sold his farm of 200 acres the other day, gave ' the purchaser C 760 cask to "cry oil'" the deal.

An interesting golf match played on the Miramar links at Wellington at last wce.k.-einl, over hole.-., w,a*s one between M. W. Horton and It. '.L. '!), Kidslon (club champion) and' two professionals—W. B. Simps.n andi Douglas (open champion of Ne.v Zealand), resulting in a victory for the. two last named—s up and l > jday. Judging by a remark made in Sydney to> a pressman recently, Dick Anns I. the sculler, is willing to make, another nialeli with William Webb, of Wanganui. J. Hannon is a.I present in New Zealand endeavouring Io arrange a match with Webb for the. championship of New Zealand, but whether il will take place is not known at present. Word has been received in Carterton of the. death of a we m-k IIO.W u chief, Mat in a Kuta, of Te Ore Ora pa. Matina was .supposed to hav • been nearly 100 years old. He w;m Ihe last of the line. He was chief of the Hamua branch of the great Ngotakakahungnnu, and was one of Hie few remaining representatives of the ancient Maori rangitiras.

"What is the best way of hidim; an car mark?" was a. question pin lO' a "sheep expert" in the hearing of a sheep-stealing ease before tin Supremo Court at Christchurch. Tin witness made a rather obvious re ply, "Take the car oil,’’ and fa.jrh convulsed the Court with ids na ivc remedy.

James Murphy was charged at the Waimate Court on Monday, before Mr 11. Nieol, J.P., with overstepping' the murk of sobriety, and was muled ed iu a fine of ss. When arrestedlie had C 22 in Ids possession. It is said that the operations oi a. Dunedin gentleman on what may bci termed the football betting bourse arc lining viewed by the officials of the Otago llughy Union with cold disfavour, says the Otago Dally Times. The gentleman referred |,i is enabled with losing Csl) on - ,

match played on Saturday week and with winning , £IOO on a luxate 1 1 decided last Saturday. The dairying season just dosing has proved a record one I'nr tli<' North, writes the Auckland Herald' cojTOspondent, all the factories re porting largely increased production of huttcr. Tile- Hikurangi fadon expects to better its' best year h> 50 tons. This company was much affected hy the strike, a. highly-pro li'table American deal for a- large, proportion of its output being called oJT when the, strike broke out. There is great jubilation among dairymen. A tribute to the good work of New Zealand’s Weather Bureau wa paid by the. captain of the steam-or Sahara, which arrived at Newcastle from Puget Sound Slope- 1 on Both May. He reported tiia shortly after passing New Caledonia he received a wireless message from Mr Bates warning him that a .southeasterly gale was approaching-. No: many hours had passed before tinSahara ran right into the gale, and she was forced to make her way through the strong winds and rough seas until the 2-lth. These facts were mentioned to Mr Pemberton (Acting Dominion Meteorologist). Ho said it was usual to send out forecasts each day from the Wellington, Awarua and Awa.nui stations. It was pleasing to note that they were of some use. The message received by the Sahara was probably sent, from Awanui (Auckland). The London Times of 15th April publishes an article from its Washington correspondent, indicating that the Prohibition issue in America is likely to rearrange the parties at present dominant. This, satisfactory results gained hy the great railway companies, the abolition of the barrack canteen, and the suspension of the serving of grog in the navy, led to further reforms. Congress abolished the sale of wines and spirits in the restaurants of the Capitol and imposed a particularly stringent Sundayi-closing law on Washington. Simultaneously 'with the demand for the alteration of the Constitution to. forbid the manufacture and traiikin intoxicating liquor as a beverage comes the prohibitory order of the Secretary of the Navy, depriving the officers of their liquor on board ship and in the navy yards. These masters must inevitably lead to a reorganisation of parties. Mr G. Ifoghcn, Inspector-General of Schools, will shortly retire from (he service on supera.nima.tion. Mr Hloghcn has occupied his present position for the past fifteen years, and was previously for eighteen years in the service- of various education boards. At the time of his appointment he was headmaster of the Timaru High School. On Wednesday evening the Tinian; Borough Council met, when they were addressed at some length by Mr C. E. Bremner. engineer to the Waimate County Council, who gave them a fund of useful information concerning stone crushing plant. Mr Bremner has recently inspected such plants at work in the South, and also in the North Island, and he gave the Council the benefit of his observations. He replied to a large numboq of question?, and at the! conclusion of his remarks was accorded a hearty vote of thanks, and assured that the information he had given would be of great service to 'the Council in getting sipne from thou now quarry and putting it on the roads. A) vote of thanks was alsopassed to the Waimate County Council for allowing Mr Bremner to come, to Timaru, to yivo the Timaru Bor'ough. Council tills information. That tightness across the Chest, that thick troublesome phlegm, that running of tha pose, may be relieved and removed by 'NAZOL.” It has cured thousands. 60 doses, Is 6d. tise with Nazol Inhaler.