Jealousy of New Zealand.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 199, 29 August 1901, Page 1

Jealousy of New Zealand.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, Aug. 28. The Daily Telegraph says that suspicion that New Zealand’s desire to obtain control of some islands had at tho back of it a movement to set up a second Federation in the Pacific has been partially justified by the New Zealand announcement of the special Customs tariff for the Cook group. It urges that it should bo the vigilant aim of the Commonwealth to prevent any federation between New Zealand and the Islands as seems contemplated, especially in regard to Fiji, in which the Commonwealth has immediate trade interests. New Zealand’s expansion in tho manner threatened would be harmful not only to the Commonwealth but to the proposed second federation. The time may come when some island communities may desire to bo entitled to govern themselves in the widest colonial sense, for it does not follow that they are going to he annexed to Australia in this respact.

Tho Woodville works of the North Island Co-operative Bacon Company are said to be the most complete of their kind in Australasia. The plant is capable of dealing with 50,000 pigs a week, and at the present time five men got through the work of killing and dressing 200 pigs a day. It is satisfactory to know that, although farmers are not yet educated to the proper feeding of a baconer, stock is being bred on the right lines. According oMr C. Anderson, chairman of direct ors of the company, and a noted authority on pig breeding, the colony is better off for pure bred pigs than for any other class of stock. New Zealand pig breeders, he says, ha ve|some of the finest stock in Australasia, and as fine as could be had anywhere. Mr Anderson lays down tho following principles from which the development of a baconer should be formed: As the baconer is meant to develop flesh—purely flesh—he should have an abundance of food and pure air, and there is no better time than the suckling period of a pig’s life to develop the flesh-forming characteristics. Let tho suckling have as much food as he can eat, with exercise and fresh air, and

ho will be lit for the market in six months. If, however, there is a period of three months in his young life when he is turned out, that three months is practically lost, and, instead of being fit for killing in six months, it will be nine months before he is fit to bo turned into bacon. If he has a five months’ rest, it will be a year before he is fit for the curing-room. If Jjjie baconer is not matured sufficiently l-y six months he is too big for the market, being too heavy and coarse, he is also too big in the bone and consequently gives great waste in curing. These facts regarding the baconer are being but slowly realised by breeders, but as the bacon industry grows and flourishes, they must come to be recognised, A correspondent sends the following items from Wanganui, under Friday’s date :—Mr G. Stent, an early settler, aged 87, died to-day. Deceased formerly possessed considerable means, and was a noted breeder of pure bred stock. He leaves a widow and grown-up family. Another death, which has occasioned much sympathy, is that of Miss Ethel Ada Smidt, youngest daughter of Mrs J. J. Smidt, Guyton street. Deceased, who was only 141 years of age, was a general favorite. It is understood that the committee of the Borough Council will recommend the site on Cook’s Gardens for tbo ob

servatory to be erected by the newlyformed Astronomical Society. Fully DIOO will be cleared by the fancy dress and poster ball held in aid of the funds of the Victoria Memorial Ward. Mr A. E. Bullock, well-known in football and cricket circles, left yesterday for New Plymouth, where he has secured a Government appointment, Oh ! what would Tommy Atkins do If we had not pulled him through; The colonies have done their best, And showed great courage in the test. We all reiiuire a little aid, And danger makes us oft afraid ; A cough won’t make your health secure, So buy some Woods’s Great Peppermint Cure,