LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 August 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Every part of Maiiak.au has now boon searched for the missing: man Peter Smith. There are not the slightest indications of his whereabouts.

Ofcn.cco ijfiiL Wanaganui, in a representative ftiisrby game, played at Dunexlin on Saturday, by eighteen points to twelve. Otago scored six tries to Wan-ganmi's Four. All ten tries were unconverted.

The dontli occurred this morning, at Manakau of'Mr Jolrn Iruin. The deceased, who was highly respected in the district, formerly occupied: a farm in North Ma.uakau, hut reeently had boon living with his sister in Manakaii township. Ho was unmarried, and had hod) ailing some fourteen days.

A dorid story of the very early days %>f .Sydney was told at a, meeting of the Australian Historical Society recently. A marine- approached Governor Kins, and a*ked for a grant of land. "You have boon a marine? 5, asked, Governor King. "Yes, may it plea.so your Rxeollc-upy." "Can yon £0. through vour inaiind exercises?" ""Yes, uuiv it please, ynur FA-eelleivcy. ' '■'Then. stand at . ase." said Governor King. The marine so stood. "Shoulder arms" and "right about face" followed, and finally "quick march." The marine went straight on. down the gravel p.nt'h. Tn at his door again woDt Governor King. ft is not stated, when the marine thought it was no use. waiting for a. further order. But. ho got a bigger irrn.nb in the end. so the- story goes, for Iho Governor's little joke.

A gruesonio story of bow he murdered Ins millioiia.ire employer has 'been, told by a. bcill-boy named Gddol, 17 years of ago. The boy, who is of weak frame and sallow complexion, has l>ooll a. victim 'of the cigarette habit. He has given the police i\ typp~writt-e.il confession, in which he states that the of Mill. Jackson, an aged "Wall street, broker, and a- millionaire, which has been puzzling the detectives, was caused by him. Geidel says that he w.as discharged by Jackson, wlio refused, to pay him tho mnney dine to him. He attempted to chloroform Ihe old man dm lie slept. But Jackson awoke while, the murderer was thrusting tlie chloroformed rag down his throat. The old man struggled, but the 'boy hit him a heavy blow on the head with a. steel ,jemmy. "The chloroform." the confession concludes, "did therest."

Gilbert Perkins and C-Imrles. Franklin, two men who have been running a private detective agency at Erie, lViinsylvaniii, hav-p, just heoii triod in fa at city For linviafc used the. mails in an attempt to levy blackmail. They wrote to the fainilv of a dead millionaire demanding that they should be employed to guard his mausolem. The prisoners declared that they were the victims of n conspiracy by William J. "Rums' detect ivo agency. against which they were working in connection with the defence of the men charged with dynamiting the Los Angeles Times office. Both men were convicted and sentenced-—Per-kins to- five, and Franklin to three. year l ; , impi isrmment.

Replying tu an inquiry <as to the value of silver beet as a forage plant. Dr. Hilgeiidorf. of C'anterl)iiry Agricultural Oollege. says that

they had a small plot of sliver boot anions tho grass plots, .and found

that ib prodiuoed a considlcii'a.ble. amount of feed from December to June. It needs to be fed off as soon as it is grown to ;\ .height of ■abo'iit nine inches, because it grows , much nifl'T rapidly alter feeding off than it does before. Slice]") are particularly fond of it. for they ate it <knvn fust of all Avhcn they had a .•".election of fifty grasses and clovers in plots t<i choose from, and it was the must ci'uscly eaten flown of all the crops. Dr. TFilgomWf thinks it will prove quite- satisfactory fis a siikstitiite for rape, and also particularly for turnips,,.

Slionld persons who commit suicide bo allowed full burial ritevs'r That is the question discussed in a. rcvport which hn< liccn sulimitle.'l to the Cpper House of (.'onvocation of Canterbury by a committee tlnat was specially ap|)ointed to consider the suliject. T.lu> late. Hishop i)l' Oxford, the Right Rev. Dr. Paget, ex-

pressed the view that there should

be a refusal to allow tho body of a suicide t;> enter tho church in the e-aso of «n person who had lived a.

notoriously evil life. Otherwise tho body should bo admitted and an altered form of service used. Convocation finally adopted, a ire-solu-tion authorising clergymen to bring

before their bishops any case in which they thoug'htthat harm would be done by using the full burial service. For cases of that chra-acter it was resolved that a special form of service should be prepared. Tlio annual report of the Xew Zealand, J.Uinner.s Dairy Union, for a copy or which we are indebted to ->.lr l'cter Stewart, of Levin, is oharacteriseu by a note of regret, but -contains also the solatium of a J per cejit. dividend. The full text of the report is a.s follows:—".Shareholders will, doubtless, have gathered from the press reports during the

autumn that tho dairying season of IJJIO-1L has been one of the most disappointing on record both as retho milk .supply and prices in

tiie Homo markets. The union, like all other companies, has been a sufferer in these respects; but notwithstanding the drawbacks our milk .suppliers have received a very satisfactory return for their produea wliC'ii all the circumstances are considered. The season was the more disappointing in that it promised, in the early part, to be n record one; and at the end oil December our company was 55 tons of butter ahead of last year. From January, however, the milk supply dropped so rapidly that we finished up the year n few tons short of 1910. In September last we had the satisfaction of opening up a- creamery in a. new district nea-r Tokomaru, and the supply therefrom is steadily growing. ' The butter manufactured was (58-1 tons ISewt. : and cheese 141 tons (iewt. The debenture account has been reduced by £650, and the company will be, in a position to pay off tho balance of £2500 remaining in this account at the end of the coming season should nothing unforseen arise. In view of tlio drought already alluded to, and the comparatively high advances paid for butter-fat, it was not to be expected that a surplus on the year's working could result, and a. reference to the profit and loss account will show that this ..has proved to be the case. There were, however, .sufficient funds in hand to pay the usual dividend of o per cent., and the directors recommend this course to the shareholders. The directors who retire by rotation aro Messrs J. R. White and David Bnick. both of whom, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election. The retiring, auditor also offers himself for _ reelection. James A. Nash, director, Christian Voss, director. W. E. Bomlall, secretary.

He kissed her with might and with main, She pleaded, "Don't do it again— For T have- a cold, and I've often been told That people with colds should .refrain. 1 * He chortled in frolicsome vein, "Those blessed old microbes asain! A remedy snre's Wood's Great Peppermint Oure," Sp he ki«eed her and missod the last -tram. . ■'>-£?"

Mr A. V. Bernard, wlio judged tilio elocutionary competitions at J£iinereton North, lww kmdly consented to adjudicate at tho Levin bpnng Fair and Bulb Show

J'hc Iforowlienua members of t/lre combined football team to play lara-. nnki at Palmerston Nortli on \\cdnesday, will travel 'by tlio evening train on Tuesday night. We aro requested by Mr La the son to say that Mr Byron Brown and ..liss Brown aro not taking part - 'i tlu> elocutionary contests at the Presbyterian Carnival on AVcclnos<by. As i\ professional, lie understands that Miss Brown is competing: at the forthcoming competition at Xapier.

In furtherance of Mr Robertson's candidature for the. Oiaki seat, a inoetin- was held at Tokomaru on Saturday evening. There was a. large attendance, presided over by Mr J. Liggins. Mr Eohertson spoke for aboutr'an hour and had a. very attentive! hearing. Be doalt with the political situation from the Labour point of view and at tlie close a large number of questions weiro. put and answered to illo .apparent satisfaction of the audience. A vote of confidence in the candidate was unanimously carried- Manawatu Times. Tn an address at Now Plymouth on prevention of disea.se, Mr 0. J. P.oakos, Chief Government Veterinarian, said: "If farmers were to keep their young stock healthy and prevent disease, they had to bo fed under as oloanly conditions as possible. This was a noint which was ve-rv badly neglected. It was very seldom t'liat the utensils in which the food was sowed were cleaned out, and the .sour feed ologg<wl about and fouled the next feed poured into them. Most of these calves hceamo dairy cows, hut their constitutions .had Vo,r weakened, the return from these cows would. bi> much smaller than it would othenvi.se have been: ..α-nd. further, whnt was the young stock from these animals sznmt to be like? Tf all the presentdav cows in Taranaki had boom properl v reared, not only would there be le?,s disease, hut a great inoroaso in the total milk supply."" 'Me San Francisco Call luis been working; out the cost of a modern naval battle. Tt estimates 'that asea 'battle would, cost in ammunition .alono at legist £1,200,000 an liour. A single shot from a Min. gun, such as the new American battleships Xew York and Texas and the- future Dreadnoughts will use. costs £120, and that two or three of those shots may be fired every minute; that the shots from the" 12in. gun cost -GB-I each : fl.nd that those from the lesser guns, while less expensive, are fired with much greater rapidity. A typical fleet would number from twelve to twenty battleships, with n second lino of older Jv r-oniplomoiit of armoured ci'iiisoi's. and the usual number i (>■" toi'podo-hoat destroyers And tovS podo-I)f>ats. Tn a five-hours' 011I gageinent each fleet would u.se from I throe million to four million pounds I worth of ammunition, or a total, nerhrvps. of thirty-five millions. This, of course, does not take into account the cost of the <lama,<re inflicted on the fleets. A modern 1 Dreadnought, with nil its fittiiifs. s costs between C1.H00.000 nnd £2.000.000. and half-a-dozen well-plac-ed sliots might sink it. A dearth of guinea-pigs is announced at the Pasteur Institute j which has had to rely principally on I its own supply from its own guineaj pig farm at G.anjhes. Something j like HOOD guinea-pigs are kept on j the ground permanently for breeiling j purposes. They are kept in pairs, and so rapid is the reproduction that it only takes 21 days for each pair u> have young ones, and the process goes on nearly all the year round. Many of the yon 11 g ones dio off hefore they are ovo.ri weaned, as itboy are very delicate, and sometimes they are carelessly trampled on. or even devoured by the old ones. Tho best ones are selected and cooped up separately as soon as they are weaned. Then. Accordingly as they are required, they are sent to the laboratory on the spot, or to Paris. The fact that with such a prolfiic production to rely upon the institute is still short of "subjects," shows what a domain! there is for these n.ninials. One of the reasons for this large consumption is also the fact that mice and rats have been almost entirely ahand'oned for experimental purposes. Tho institute disburses annually a. si;m of .€IO.OOO on guinea-pigs.

Doesn't your orchard noo:] spraying? Von can obtain "Vacuum Red Oil." which is the most effective post killer, in 1 gallon ov 1 gallon (ins ,I'i'om C S. Koodwell's Pharmacy. Ono gallon of oil makes 20 gallons of spraying emulsion.—Ad vt