Miscellaneous Items

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 8, 3 July 1890, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items

■ :-*-• ■■ . ; — r mAt a certain town iv the South Island there are three churches, the miaister, of each rejoicing in tbe name ot Wright. ' One lives in the upper part of the towu, one id the lower, and the third at (he mills, so that the people hare dabbed their appointed guides as " TJprighV' *' Downright,'* and;"* Millright." An eminent lawyer jnr .Melbourne was laid low with influenza, and a distinguished doctor prescribed for him a mustard poultice covering most of his trunk. Next* day, while the blister was spill smarting, instead ot the doctor coming, came a telephonic message — "Dr is 80 sorry, bat he has got the influenza him•solf; what is he to do P" (meaning no doubt, would he send another doctor; *• Is he at the telephone ?" growled the patient. " Yes." "I'll tell him what; to -do," and he. hobbled over to. the instr,u« ment, and shouted through it : " Put a mustard poultice all orer your blessed carcase; it will become your figure better 4han mine." But it was the doctor's wife who was at the other end. The injury done to a country by dishonest traders is often referred to, bat it is seldom so clearly demonstrated as it ■has been in the case of American dairy "produce. Commencing about 100 years •ago, the export trade in dairy produce increased, with only, occasional fluctuations, until, in 1884 the quantity of cheese amounted to 147,995,0001 b., va'ued at 16,380,660d01. The export trade in butter also increased to a value of nearly The export of butter has now fallen off so that it is not valned at more than 2.p00,000d01., but there is an absolute loss of 3.000,000c1d1., in addition $0 the damage' done to honest makers. The export of cheese has fallen off aince 1881, and in 1889 touched 84,----990,0001 b. This is stated in official reports to equal 8,000.u00d0l annually. "The Washington Department of Agriculture .publishes! a letter from the American at Liverpool, in which the export* *tion of what is called "fillie cheese" «nd fraudulent manufactures is pointed out as the cause, and tbe department endorses the conclusion. This is & waramg valuable to us in opening up -an export trade.