LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 January 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

« —■ —- The Bishop of Manchester has appointed Bisihop Neligan, late Bishop of Auckland, to he Bishop Missioner of the diocese. The Guardian. (London) states that the Rev. W. J. Simian, curate of Christ Church, Stafford, will shortly leave for New Zealand, where a sphere of work will be found for him by the Bisihop of Waipu. Qu Monday, 16th, (says the Herald) the Ballance Dairy Company will distribute over £7000 amongst the company's suppliers for milk supplied during December. Payment will bo made at the rate of lOd per pound of bu'tter-fat. The total paysheet of the company for December, which includes wages, accounts and payments for butter-fat, amounts to approximately £8000. Special charity stamps have been issued in Belgium. They will be sold at double the price of ordinary postage stamps. The revenue derived will be paid to the National League for the aid of consumptives, and the idea has been brought to fruition to celebrate the recovery of tho Queen from an attack of typhoid fever. A Canadian correspondent of a contemporary states thalt a great gas well, over a thousand feet deep, and. yielding three million cubic feet per day. ihas been successfully tapped in the Hargrave property, in the city of Medicine Hat, Alberta. Trains running in the vicinity have been using natural gas as an illuminant for some time. The extraordinarily favourable weather for dairymen which has prevailed in this county for the last four months is resulting in' much greater turnovers than usual at the butter factories. Shannon Co-op-era tivo Dairy Company paid onfti C3OO more to suppliers during last December, than in the corresponding month of 1909. A novel idea for cheap grazing has anparentlv occurred to a resident in Mount Albeit (Auckland) district. At a meeting of the board last Monday night a letter was read from a ratepayer complaining regarding stray horses having been on his properltv. The writer stated that he was unable to iturn them out, as with the horses was nn attendant in the shape of a bulldog, which animal would not even leifc him go on his own section. No further developments have /taken place with regard to the formation of a company to begin sluicing operations on a large scale in the Wakamarina (says the Guardian) but it is practically ceritain that a test of a well known claim will shortly bo made. Overtures are being made for the purchase of a sluicing plant in Who south, and if this is arranged for there ought to lie a boom in mining in the Wak., for there is nothing more certain Ithan that gold in payable quantities exists in that locality. The Chinese Consul-General, Mr Yung Liang Hwan<; that in response to his recent appeal on behalf of famino-sftricken inhabitantsin the Chinese .provinces of Anhui and Northern Kiangsu, contributions have come to hand from Auckland, Canterbury and Foxton, as well as from residents of Wellington. Mr Hwang thanks contributors _£or the response made to his appeal, and states that he will he extremely grateful for any further subscripions forwarded not later than Friday, January 20, on which date !this lists Avill be closed. Conditions in the distressed provinces, Mr Hwang reierates, are extremely bad. Many surf bathers hold "Hie belief that sharks will not enlter the breakers near the beach. The theory has been exploded at Sydney by a recent occurrence. Several men and women were shooting itho breakers when a huge grey nurse shark appeared in the green curling breakers just as three men were on the pojnt_of coining into the wave. There was an ins'tant cry of "Sharks!" and every bather rushed out of the surf. A large crowd of spectators were on ■the beach, and marvelled at the shark's daring. Several schools of .salmon wero previously seen, and it is surmised that the monster was alter the fish.

Eloquent .proof of the usefulness of ;i, bridge across the "Wair.ni river, at .'the lieu wick fords, is provided in the tally of traffic across the fords and around tihe Tut Marina track during Itlie two months ended 31st December (says the_ Pelorus Gruardian). The total number of people who crossed the fords was 3/20, and 1300 were diverted to the Tut Marina track—chiefly owing to the river being in flood. The vehicular traffic was very large. The tallytakers were Mr Massett (fords) and Mr TO. Leonard (trade), and they fulfilled tibeir very difficult task in a most praiseworthy manner. The I'oyal Commission in connection with the construction of a bridge across 'the river will sit in Blenheim on 23rd •January. It is proposed to levy a rate on local bodies in this district to help pay the cost of construction and interest, but this proposal will be opposed at the sitting of Ithe Royal Commission. Farmers (states the Feilding -Star) say that workmen are very scarce at the present time, and those who have been engaged in harvesting operations have been unusually worried owing to the difficulty of obtaining and retaining men. ' Dairymen, too, arc in many ease.? heing ham pered by the scarcity of labourers, and this accounts partly for the fact (that parents have been found guilty of keeping their children from sohooi. L<oad contractors anticipate trouble in carrying out their works owin< T to the same cause, and building contractors have for some timo been much concerned about the scarcity o! [tradesmen. As ' showing how easily work may be obtained by those. willing to take it, it may be •stated Jt-lia fc two English immigrants recently arrived in Feilding arid set out in the morning to find work. Before noon each was located in a. permanenifs job, at his own respective occupation, one being a wheelwright and tlio other an engineer. A very powerful telescope lias been made bv Air F. J. Liley, of Waimea road. The instrument, which is mounted on ..a revolving pedestal, is Tft lOin in length, and the speculum which was made from a piece of glass one inch in diameter, occupied Mr Liley 132 hours, but since then he has made two others of the same size in much less (time. Instead of the usual brass or iron barrel, the case is made of wood, and. square, Avhich Mr Liley claims has advantages m that it prevents swealting. and mist on the speculum, and avoids "air curls.For two hours on Saturday evening a representative of this paper (Nelson Colonist) observed the- various heavenly. bodies through the telescope, and although the weather conditions were not absolutely perfect, splendid views were obtained of the moon, the planet Saturn (with dts rings), the Belt of Orion, and various other stars. is Mr Liley's intention to open the telescope to tihe public, clue notice :>f which wil lbe given by advertise- j merit in these columns, !

Dick Arnst, the world's champion sculler announces in the Sydney Referee that he and his sawing niaito Jack Donnelly, are willing to take on any two men in New South Wales for the double-handed sawing; championship of the Stalte. In to-day's issuo tenders are called for the privileges in connection with the different stalls at the Horowhenua A. and P. Association's Show on 18feh February. Large entries have been received for (the show, so there should, be keen competition for the privileges. , The New Zealand i. Liiity Poultry Club has decided to hold a. seventh egg-laving competitin for fowls, and a second duck competition, to ex'tend over a period of twelve months, from April next. The egg yield in the present competition (says 'the Christchirreh Press) has been exceptionally great, the leading pen of six pullets having laid 1101 eggs in the iirst eight moniths, audi a dozen '■oitfher pens of birds have each recorded over .1000 eggs. Entries for the district cycle >a e promoted by Z\lr ,T. Phillips are coming to hand from centres afar from Levin. Foxton and Shannon already are represented in tho list. It is anticipated that over forty competitors will face the .starter. The date of tho contest is Wednesday, February Bth, and. ifcho start will he from the Byko Corner, Levin, at 2.30 p.m. Mr P. S. Horn, of the

London studio, has intimated his intention to present half a dozen cabinet photographs to tlie winner of tho race. There is a very fine exhibition of valuable trophies on view in Messrs Hitehings. Hankins and Co.'s window at AVer.iron. These have been won by Mr R. G. Makin's well-known fox terriers which ihnvo been successful in securing 29 first prizes ibis season. Included in tho trophies are two very handsome shields, two massive silver cm.ps, salad bowl, medals, etc., etc. As Mr .Makin only exhibited two dogs, his record is one ito be! proud of. "He called me a 'she)for,' " .said a. witness at the Magistrate's Court, Christ-church. "A what; 1 ' enquired Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., who was on the Bench. Mr Hunter (who appeared for com pin in a i it) : "The word is not in the Oxford- dictionary your "Worship; it is a slang term for a man who gives information to tho police." Tho witness I hen went on to sitatethat the defendant had also called him a "swotzer. Exactly what a "swotzer" was no one else in Court- seemed to know, but the evidence certainly went to show itihat it was not meant for a term of endearment. Mr Chew Chong, of Now Plymouth, was presented on Saturday with an illuminated address by prominent member.s of North Tarnnaki. in appreeiatoin of his services to his adopted country. "Your having," states the address, "on your arrival from China in tho early sixties, entered into the oxp-ort trade of fungus was the means of saving many a- family from want and penury in the oarlv days of settlement in the district by causing a circulation in our midst over half a million of foreign money, and this the outcome of legitimate trade and not from loan. Then later you entered the- butter business, being almost a pioneer in factory manufacture, you led the way into what has bceomo the mainstay of the district, and helped to develop an export wln'-h materially assists in the prosperity of the dominion.' ' What does a General Election

cost? The answer is given in a Blue Book issued by the Hume. Office, so far as tlio nefcua.l outlay of candidates and Mir expenses of returning officers arc concerned. The figures officially given are lor thr. election of last January, and shou-t-hat, apart- from the expenses of unopposed candidates. the rust was £1.29(5,382 9s lOd, or only .C12.2M less than the maximum amount allowed by the Corrupt Practices Act of 1883. The average cost, per vote polled in the different kingdoms in January is worked out as follow: Kngland and AVa.les, 3s lOd; Scotland. '.Is od; Ireland, 2s lid. Kor the whole of the. United. Kingdom the average cost per vote polled is given a.s 3s lid. There were 1311 candidates for the 070 scats, and <1.607 391 electors went to the poll. In all hooks henceforth 1o he used in tho public schools of Xow York there is to he inserted a little circular, telling pupils how to care for their eyes. "Your eves are worth more_ to .you Ithan any hook, ' the warning runs. "Your safety and your success in life depends on vour

c.ves. Therefore! take en re of them. Always hold your bead up when you read. Hold your honk "I I im lic-; from your face. Ho sure that the light is clear and good. Never road with Ithe. sun on th" hook. Never face iiho light in readinsc. L-et the light come from behind or over vonr left shoulder. "Rest your eyes by looking away from the hook every fo\y moments; cleanse yonr eves night and morning with pure water." A Xew York paper remarks that such ad rice is good for grown-ups as well as children. One of the most exciting experience related l>v the crew of the fishing .schooner Golden "West, which came into S:.;i Dieg.; iVoi i l.ow r California, waters, says ihafc it wa.s only bv a miracle that the schooner was not .sent to the bottom of the ocean by a school of 7o whalc.s. Wihen ahouL 20 miles below San Diego (the look-out of the Golden West called Captain l\!assa's attention to an unusual commotion in the sea dead ahead. Later large columns of water were skyward, and 011 coming close to ithe spot a- big school of whales was found, disporting in the water. Captain Massa .headed the Golden \. "st toward the shore to avoid collision. Several times ithe whales came .so close to the schooner that when thev spouted the water fell on (he decks. nir.r:: 11:::r, six hours the whales remained .to the .schooner, and Captain Massa had difficulty in making the entrance to the harbour.

As the hairdresser rode down Oxford street yesterday, on a lady's bicycle, the tailor and tlio luVyclo maker advanced towards 'him from opposite sides of the road. He thought they would stop before reaching him ; but they didn't, and when bo tried 'to avoid a collision by back-ped,idling he found he was on a free-wheel bicycle whieiit had no break. A spill resulted ; and as lie brushed the dust off himself the cycle maker, with mixed feelings, tried to console him by saying thalt the bicycle was uninjured. "Yes." answered the upset one, ruefully, "but what about- my bruised, leg and (torn trousers?" The third'party to the mishap, being a tailor, found himself in the same sad case a.s Dicken's undertaker ,"j\Tr Jorum," nsed to be when lie beaut of serious sickness in anyone's family. He could not express open sympathy, lest he should be suspeelted of secretly exulting over prospective business.

BILIOUS ATTACKS CURISD. Sufferers from bilious nitrides should read tins remarkable letter from Mr Donald Contts, of Condah. Vic. f 'l have been a continuous sufferer from headache and bilious vomiting attacks for 25 years. During that time I have been treated bv doctors, besides using nil sort 1 ? of medicines that proved useless. Being almost afraid I ooulrl never bo cured, I tried Chamberlain's Tablets, and can assure you that they have completely cured me, and I feel like a new man. I can conscientiously recommend them to all who suffer from stomach and Jiver trouble^."

A pretty" wedding took plaoo at the Catholic church, Weraroa, today, when Mr If. J. Glacka: the well-known jeweller of Oxford street, Lcrin, was united in the holy bowls of matrimony to Miss. Clara Williams, sister of Mrs J. Kearsley. lui© brido was charmingly attired in .a dress of .silk ottoman trimmed with silk lace insertion, and carried _ a lovely 'bouquet. The bridesmaids were Miss Flo Williams-, who. was prettily attired in silk voile with lace insertion, aiul Miss Doris Williams, who wore a dress of ere mo voile wiitlh silk insertion in lace. Mr .1. T. Glackin, who had come up from tlie South island, officiated as best man. and the bride was given away by Mr .T. Kearsley. Tho Rev. Fathor' Cornet said Nuptial Mass, and Mr J. Kearsley played "The Wedding March." At itilio conclusion of the wedding ceremony the newly married couple received tho hearty congratulations of their num. eroms friends, and subsequently a reception was held at the residence of Mr J. Kearsley, in street, when tho toast of tho bride and •bridegroom was duly honoured. Later in the day Mr sndi Mrs Glaekin. tlie laittcr of whom wore a dainltv navybluo costume with pale pink hat, left for tho North by tho Napier express foi* ftiho honeymoon,