WHEN THE RUB COMES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2169, 27 August 1907, Page 2

WHEN THE RUB COMES.

The proof of the pudding is not always in the eating, hut in the digesting. In this respect. Puddings and Miilkiing Machines are very much alike. It is easy to consume a pudding, or instal a milking machine, hut the rub comes when you have to digest the pudding or continue to use the milking machine, if it proves unsatisfactory. There need not he any hes Ration about purchasing the “L.K.G.” Milking Machine, as dozens of practical men have given it the highest praise after using it continuously for three, four, and five years.—MacEwans, Ltd,, Font Street, Auckland.

With a merely elementary knowledge of the positions of the son, moon, and .stare at given times, d with a pocket compass (writes (•.'.!• oral Drayson, H. A., in the Captain), it becomes almost an impossibility to got lost anywhere.

Once or twice lately (says tlio Taranaki News) local tradespeqiilo. have heen surprised to find that in a court of law their hooks arc usless as evidence unless the man who made the entries is produced to swear to the items. A local firm of butchers sued a local resident for £3 2s lid, for meat sold and delivered about a year ago. The defendant disputed several of the items, and the plaintiff’s manager when put in the box said that the mail who sold the meat from the cant and also the clerk who had made the entries from the cartman’s book could not be brougbit to give evidence. The magistrate said that in that case there was not an atom of evidence that the goods bad ben sold or delivered, and he thought the plaintiff should accept a, nonsuit. This course was adopted.

An amusing scene occurred last Thursday on one of the Ponsonby tram care, (says the Auckland Star). It was at the loot of Wellesley street, and several ladies got in after the seating accommodation was fully occupied. The car did not move, and presently one lady said: “I wonder what they are waiting for?” whereupon, a gentleman replied, “For you ladies to get out.” “Oil, I won’t block the car,” said one lady, and promptly got out, followed by others. However, 0110 of the ladies decided to remain. The conductor civillly asked her to leave the ear, whereupon she replied in a very decided voice: “I am in a hurry, and I shall not get out.” to a second request she said: “It is absurd to say that I am blocking the car.” The conductor said: “Will you please give me your name and address?” “I shall do no such thing,” the lady calmly replied. As there was no constable in sight, the conductor said: “We will go on, then, and I will get your name and address shortly.” He was reaching out to ring the bell, when the lady suddenly changed her mind and said: “I will get out, but I will expose you.” The incident thus ended.

The name “Ulimaroa” selected for the new Huddard-Parkor steamer now being bulit for the New Zealand-Aus-tral ia passenger service, has associations connected with both countries. According to the H-awkeswortli edition of Captain Cook’s First voyage, the famous navigator recorded :- — “December 9th, 1769, Doubtless Bay, New Zealand —While we lay becalmed, several canoes came off to us, but the people having heard our —■ms, it was not without great difficulty that they were persuaded to come under our stern. After having bought some of their.clothes as well as their fish, we began to make inquiries concerning tlieiir country, and learn, by the help of Tupia, that, at a place called Moore-Whennua, the land took a sharp turn towards the southwards, and from thence extends no more to the west. Find'ug these people so intelligent, we inquired if they knew any country besides their own. They answered that their ancestors told them that to-the north-west by north or north-north-west there was a country of great extent called Ulimaroa, to which some people had sailed in a very large canoe, and that only part of them returned, and reported that after a passage of a month they had seen a country where the people eat hogs.” It is presumed that the country so indicated was Australia.