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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 374, 9 July 1903, Page 4

The season for shooting native and im- ; ported game closed on the 30th June. The Court site at Olyde on Saturday, and at Alexandra on Monday and Tuesday. The police gaoler at Clyde has been; gazetted as the probation officer for the 1 district, ' I The Clyde Collieries Company has raised the price of coal at the pit's mouth to 13b per ton. Mr G L Cuthbebtson, Vincent County engineer, was married last week' to Miss Macdonald, of Invercargill. Miss Thompson, of Invercargill, has been appointed nurse at the Dunaian Hospital, vice Miss Carmichael (resigned). Mr J J O'Kanb, surgeon dentist, will visit Ophir on Saturday next, 11th inst., and may be consulted at Dr M-Ilroy'a surgery. Mr J H Stephens; well known throughout the Colonies as the Singing Evangelist, will conduct a mission in Alexandra next week, commencing on Sunday. By advertisement in this issue, the ;:sVincent County Council invite tenders for repairs to the Clyde town water race, and also for gravelling 25 chains of road at Dry Gully. An old Maori chief, Take Take, whose tattooed face has been photographed probably more than any other native in New Zealand fot illustrated papers, is dead, aged 83 years. At the Land Board meeting last week, Robert Gunion wrote on. behalf of the Alexandra Poultry Company, increasing the area on Run No. 221 a, applied for by the Company.—Held over pending survey on the run. The Mataura Ensign says:—lt is reported | that the prohibition party is preparing a j petition to the Minister of Justice asking i that changes be made in the police administration in certain parts of the Mataura electorate. . Fob the information of the present and rising generations, we might mention that ' the first sod of the Otago Central Railway : was turned at Wingatui. by the late Hon. Vincent Pyke, on June 7th, 1879. Captain Roderique, of Riverton, has (says the Western Star) discovered an extensive tin lode in Stewart Island. Some time ago, he sent 1 a sample to Professor Black, Dunedin, but that gentleman has sent no reply as yet. Sir Hiram Maxim, without whose guns no army of to-day: could hope for success, started life with less than the proverbial half-crown in his pocket. When he went out into the world he owned exactly Is, and he earned his first week's wage as a decorative painter.

During a discussion on licensing laws in the Supreme Court the Chief Justice said: "Another extraordinary thing is that if a man makes a false representation and gets liquor he is liable to a fine of £5. If he makes a false representation and does not get the liquor he is fined £lO. Mr D D Hyde, poultry expert, during a spaech » the annual dincei of the Christ church P P & C. Olnb, said he would like to utter a warning to breeders of the Minorca and Langshan. He said : "The Minorcas will go the way of the Spanish; they are being bred with tar to much«head gear' they will soon develop into delicate and weak constitutioned birds. Langshans were too long on the leg—they would develop leg weakness." The speaker said he knew there would be plenty to combat his statementshe deemed it his duty, however, to give the warning. Lodd Hugh Cecil, who has taken such a prominent place in the discussion of the Education Act, and who in his aloofness, is like his father, is an out-and-out Tory Churchman, and, though excessively nervous does not show any reluctance in letting people know that he has a mind of his own. In one of his earliest speeches, at a diocesan conference, in the course of a discussion on the retirement of an elderly clergyman from their benefices, the youthful Cecil trenchantly declared that it was " better that the parson should be in the workhouse than his parishioners in hell!"' Dr Martin Ekenberg, of Sweden, has, with the aid of an exsiccator, succeeded in tiansforming skimmed milk into an absolute powder, when the powder is dissolved in a proper quantity of water, it gives a solution with the same taste, smell and' other qualities as common; milk/ The milk flour is easily transported, and will keep a long time. The yearly- output, of milk from the dairies of Sweden amounts to 158,520,000 gallons. It is estimated that this will yield a quantity of milk abur of the same market value as the total,-export; of butter. The price of a large ,e'ksieca|or, capable of putting through 62C. gallons'of skim milk in ten hours, is about

The Government, poultry ex|ert states (says the Lyttleton Times) tb»t New Zealand could have found a good market in South Atricaduring the past year and a-half fowls and ducks; Unfortunately the supply in the colon/ was limited, and only 100,000 head were sent to s>getwrji and Durban. That, however, is a great improvement on the figures for the previous year—3B,ooo. Mr Hyde reports (says the Wellington Post) that a great deafcof* capital is being invested in the poultry industry by southern people. One man in thfc Canterbury district has already, spent £3OOO in establishing a poultry farm on up-to-date linss, and is satisfied that „the concern will

?5? J )ttbl,c are warned that jobon for rabbits has been laid on the Earnsoleiwb Run, including the land in the neighborhood of the Alexandra bridge. Tft 3, h Tf F er « us ' J J »ams a y and J 0 Arbuckle (of Lawrence) are definite!* announced as candidates for £ 2552 &| on the Education Board. « i3£S? L i N o' re P r « Bent of the well-« known firm of Brown Ewing and Co., Is at present m Alexandra with a splendid assortment of samples. Mr Lane will be in town till the end of the week. For the last fortnight or so the weather n has been remarkably fine and mild with an almost entire absence of front at nirht and it almost sterns as if Winter bad giTen i"-SS*'« S , pn "-'. ™ th ° nt even aatrnggle. The oldest residents m the district say that they have never before experienced such mild weather at this time of the yean On Monday evening last, the Alexandra Orchestral Society paid a visit to Mrs t J O'Kane (the society's late pianiste), at her residence, Tarbert Street, Alexandra. After a few selections were played by the society and a couple of songs given by Mr A Q Murphy, Mr JD Thomson on babalf of-tfae society, presented Mrs O'Kane with a silver gong and stand, with lady's and .gent's brushes attached. Mr Thomson in makinir the presentation, referred to Mr* O'Kane as a capable and hardworking member of the society, and he said that the soatoty's success was. to a very great extent, due to bof assistance. MrOKane, in responding on behalf of Mrs O'Kane, saidthat he tbouirfit ' the present a ve.y beautiful one. and that both Mrs 0 Kane and he would treasure P as long as they were spared, also that thev - would always keep a warn corner in hearts for the society which tbcjy both admired, and would do all in their power to further its interests. Mr J B Cairns and « rA^A^ Bri ? aco (conductor) also spoke of Mrs 0 Kane s sterling qualities, and of the good work performed by her when an active member of the A.O.S. The gong was inscribed as follows:—"To Mrs J J O'Kane. on the occasion of her marriage, from tb* Alexandra Orchestral Society, •Alexandra July 6th 1903.' ; .£!%rti "" S.