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Waikato Times, Volume XLI, Issue 3344, 2 December 1893, Page 10

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, The ; Late Election.-The'bis: election,, with I its: worry, aiidu everlasting!i political sdiscussions, ifpover, f and, settlers ( will • once . more be at liberty to attend to their, shear-,, ing, ploughing; etc. That\tha result; of ohi Waipa election is regarded here as satisfactory goes' Some surprise has, .been expressed at - Mr, Lang heavy majority; ;but! there ■ is] np /occasion for it, Throughout the late contest, the Liberals in Waipa,displayed'a waiitof judgment, which would ' almcist be exdusable in so many children. The 'average' wittier takes a.good deal'of stirring up. Like the British" lion,, . he: requires.vigorous ' progging' before he moves atall ;■ but the attempt of a few ex treme Liberals,, directed bya : select coterie 'at Hiiiniitou, to force'a Queen street agitator upon Waipa electors . thoroughly roused '■ thehi, and the lesson read by Waipa.settlers .; and land owners to the' Liberals arid SingleTaxers is one whiclv the dullest, ofithem ' should be,able to understand.. . , , v , Mosquitoes. —From politics t ( ) mosquitoes seems rather a sudden drop, but it is no stretch of facts to'say that the latter have;; . for-thb' J pasfc week-'or two, occupied nearly, as much attention as the former. Never, even,after the customary test ofrthe "oldest inhabitant," have,..tl)e-e pests been:so numerous,' br so savage. ; Night and day they ho'wl round Whi pa homestead 9, and in the matter of causing sleepless-nights,* they can give, a sick child agood many .points.' No, doubt the wet, milfl, winter, followed ;by a damp and muggy spring, with.a marked absence of high winds is the cause of their, wonderful increase. I Sheep Worrying.-I regret to report that the sheep-worrying nuisance has again appeared, Mr Moffat of the Cherry; GJrove farm, having had his flock worried by : dqgs ' on Monday night, six sheep being killed out-right.' It is only'a' few months ago' that • ■ Mr-Bruce lost hetxvilys in this' wa3V a'fine flock of hoggpts being almost Exterminated; and, so far as I know, fchao ; gentleman;never succeeded in either identifying the flogs ;or. getting finy.redresi--.. The general opinion; is; that far too iriubh latitude.is'slitnyri by the local •'bodies towards -the ;i Mao'ns : and their 'numberless ■ curs., ; The :latteiv iare seldom, ,cr e.ver, registered,, and -eyeiiiif the dogs are i>y. any chance,caught amongjthe s'iCep,' no.owner can. be'found, and all that-, e in'be' done is to destroy them.' 1 The 'Waipa. andiKagliin'- Gouhty Councils' should' insist upon 'all-dogs,.-whether owned by {Europeans, or Maoris, 1 being .registered ; at ; a.small; fee. This would make o\vners jjiorn,careful, and; might be the' means' of' lesssniiig the ever-, recurring annoyance and loss through sheeporrying. v '- v: 1 V 'jj Milk - Suppliers.— A few weeks f back!l mentioned that some dissatisfaction existed among milk suppliers in respect to the testing of milk. Since then this feeling has • been intensified.' It appears that instead; of the old'system of'testing the milk (by the Babcnck tester) as it came fresh from. the . supplier, and-which gave satisfactory, returns, small quantities of enclv, day's; milk aw now taken until a week has passed potash being added to keep the milk, from decomposing. At the : end of the week, a portion of this.reserved milk is put,through theßabcock tester, it being claimed, ■ tliat by,this;plan a fairer teat of : the week's milk can be obtained, than by .taking,_a test now and then. 1 The rVsults for suppliers, however, hove been all' ;the testsgoing down considerably; in some instances, : little or no butter! fat. could . be obtained .at one,time,;and. very! good results, at;.another. - This uncertainty, 'and; general. decli.no Jn tests, has caused anything but' confidence; in the minds of the suppliers, and the feeling isnriol confined to om" factory. ■ I am • inforijied.that the matter :is being-brought . under,the .notice of .Messrs s -Reynolds ;& Go.