LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 August 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Front seats at the prizo-winii'ers , concert may bo reserved on application to Messrs A. J , ), Haswell or D. W. Matheson.

The body of a. native has been found in the bus bin the Port Awanui district. It is l«>Mpvod to bo that of Ta.ng-ae-re, a Maori who wandered from his homo three months ago when ill.—Association.

Mr 10. W. .1. Smith, jeweller, of Queen street, Levin, is i)i his window the shield which is to bo held by the winners of tho senior competition in the [Torowhenua Rugby Union.

Cootos, the Otaki half-caste. has been found guilty of robbery. His second trial on the chargo was conchuled at Wellington on .Saturday. Several previous convictions exist against Cootes. Re has been .sent to prison for twelve months for his latest offence.

Mr Frank Mason, tho well-known daffod.il grower, has consented to judge- the exhibits at the bulb show of the Levin Horticultural Society, io lie hold in the Coniury Hall on Wednesday of next A meeting of the Society's executive is to he held to-morrow evening, in the Council Chambers, to make final arrangements for the show.

"Closes! ]irosos!! Moeosll!" called the Oourt orderly, hut Moses failed to appear. Then ,a few minutes later came the"'call: "l.\iul!" t'hrioG. Thero was aaain no appearance. The individuals possessing these scriptural names wero Maoris W'liO'in storelvoejiers were suinp; for unpaid dohts.— Rotorua Timos.

Rvcn L'hicago niKler a. liont wavo is not (lie hottest place on earth. That distinrtion (says the "''Chronicle") oolongs to Bahrein Tsland. In the I'onsian Gulf, where, even at the ''coolest" season, l.he therrnoinotor seldom s inks far hclow lOOtlep;., n.iiid at, ordiiKiry times tops UOdog.

Letter cards impressed with penny stamps of \ r . dosiyu -are mnv hvhvjs, placed on sale at: post offices, price Id each. White inn twin I lias l>ooll substituted lor the blue material formerly used, ami an alteration luts licpii iirado in tlio perforation with 111i> object of facilitating the op-tMiiii.tx of th-o earcis.

The record of the Balclutha I'oliee Court in respect ol drink oases ilvas been marvellous in recent years. The last arrest for drunkenness which was cau-ed in Balciutha, which is a no-license niva, took place nearly live years ago. The police district to which this refers contains .about (!()()() people. During .ihe last tiliiree years there have been seven a nests for drunkenness at Balclutha. hut these were all men going to the co-operative works from Dunedin. and who were arrested at the station. Thrse arrests had nothing to do with Clutha. --■ Exchange

The nptv '''time-sfatinp; clock." invented, in Germany, announces tlio. hours nmi rjn;iri ci's in "an voice." Its whet's actuate a stout holf, u'.L'icli runs over :\. toll coniHH-kHI willi n stumdino; lmx. I'pmi this bolt, or ratlifM- film, tile hour:-:, Avliicli have hron rp-c-oi-dcyl l)y a ])l)o----notrmpli. nro iinpirs>o-l ]>y aalvani-s-tir.ioti on a i-!)]ipor plain. Tlio nifclinnisiii whirh moves tf:n lumhlk is cinnnpotcrl wi(!i (lie speakino- ( ],,. ri'.y. and this with a Vhich tfip -oiiiid anl prnjocts H outwirtl Hiroii'Ji n firir'ly->vra.lo{l oppiiincf attache! h> Iho imri-o\\- side of t!v dock. .\( niolit a ioncli fH i n loror reduces the dnck to silenco.

During consideration of some applicsition.s for cJiarila'ile aid at the Hawera Hospital Hoard, the chairman (Mr J!. Jf. Nolan; remarked that ail cases should, receive very careful r-onsidoratiou. H o believ'd in giving charity whore it wa.s needed, but he knew of a number of people receiving aid who were living in luxury at the espouse ~f the Hoard. Only the accessaries o> living .should lie Minniied. If the Hoard Qto n.ll<v\i» cnaritable ,-iid for p(. U ])lo to live iii luxury, it would only bo rearing iip a lot of loafers. Mr Xolan mentioned one ease whore a woman had bought no less than l»2lb of butter in one month. "That is more than any of us here with our families _ won id use." commented the chairman. Members were in gen oral agreement that if people were granted more than th. , of life, and were allowed to live in luxury, t-hey would not attempt to do anything for themselves. The Hoard dealt with a number of cases •on their merits, and in some cases made i eductions where it wa.s thought the recipients receiving more than what they reouired. Tn one particular deserving "ca.se a relief of lo.s p-er week was"granted -Star.

Milking machine experiments in 15 el gin in ihave been held recontlv. j With n view to determining whether ] milking by tlio machine w;i.s more I thorough than by liaiifl, trials were carried out in which f,;ur cons wore milked by hand for ton days. a,nd bv machine for |,ho suecediiig sixteen days. In p'k-'i case i Iris r> niilkin<i,s wore nnde by day, air] the amount of milk loft in the- ir ; :>t determined inimediintely after milking by moans of a supplementary milking. With two cows the machine gave bettor results, and with the oilier two cows hand milking was more thorough. The results, on the whole, however, were in favour of the machine, whether the absolute amount of Tiilk left in the ii.'der be con.siderod, or the ratio of this amount to the. ;-:nount actually obtained. The milk left in the udder per cow per day, after mechanical milking, was 0.50 pint, as compared with 6.5T) pint after hand milking. A longer time was taken to empty the uddor by maeihine than by hand, a fact which might have had. some influence on the vield. Though the n.mmint of milk obtained from the first morning'* milk CO. 1/5 a.m.) was in the c.nse of -both methods almost j double vhat o'Vninrd nt citi'ier of ithe_ two subsequent milkings, it was not icon Hint [her? wa.s no npprocinhlc differ;-!)-" in tli" amount loft unmilked at tl;e thnv milking*. To ascertain the influent of the machine on the total milk product-ion, the four cows woiv milk' 1 solely by machine, for Pom,- and a hair montills The c.ws which wr>iv> milked by machine gave a higher vield bv a'boufc 21b. W. M. Clark has pleasure in informing t'hr* ladies of Levin that he is !K>w linking the fir=t show of new season's millinery. Kindly .accept this aniT"" - "!p"ment -as a p A rsoml invitation fr>r von to pay a visit to tin's important display, which is now being held in our millinery .showroom.— Ailvt. Better fa' - thnn cold or silver Tn a, bimr- of dreadful pain : Ts the cure that's always handy And which proves so great « ntoin. If you feel that you arc feverish. If your com? l ' is harsh and hollow; Tfc is best to heed the warning, i And Woods' Peppermint Cure to> swallow

Newcastle Assizes, Lily HHPferburf, a young servant, was Bfuittcd of charges of setting fire if the stables of Sir Arthur Middleton, at Belsay Niorthumherland, and sending a threatening lotter to Sir Arthur, it was suggested that the girl sought to throw on a young man nnmed Ellison, whom -she considered had insulted her.

The Racing Commission's report does not go in the direction of decreasing gambling, as the Hiouso desired, but in the direction of decreasing iborse-racing. 'For instance, there is ,i club in North Canterbury which holds a one-day meeting every year, and gambles to the extent of not moire than .GoOO. 'Hint club is wiped out, but in Christchu.reh the Commission leave a day upon which tho gambling amounts to C2O,(XM). —Mr Forbes (Hiirunui).

Comments the LytteHon Times: — Earnest men and women are wearying of tiie old party distinctions 'and pretences and of the delay and destruction of their ideals 'by it-he fallibility of their representatives. Mr fsitt's sneer ss was not due so mudh to Ihe "mana" of his predecessor or to his own outstanding ability or to Kin , mistakes of his opponents as it was to a widespread feeling that politics must be moved from tho old beaten tracks, and that Parliament must be niado an assembly for the expression of the will of the people and not maintained merely as a place for the glorification of the politicians. These are the plain lessons of the election, written large in Mr Tsitt's majority', and the leader that takes them to heart first and gives them effect is the loader that will triumph on the next appeal to Iho constituencies.

Tn a report to Washington the Vnitod States Consul at Sherbrooike, Canada, says:—"The chief mineralogist of the Canadian Geological •Survey lor the past few months has been "studying tho olivinebearing rocks of Canada, which often contain asbestos, chiomite, platinum, and, in some cases, diamonds. Some of his examinations wore into ohromite ore from tho Montreal pit, near Black Lake. Until last year this mine was worked for ehromite. ami he lias established beyond all doubt that this ore contains an uppreciahle proportion of diamonds in small crystals. Tho discovery may prove of economic value. The- diamonds are too small to be of use as genis, their size being microscopic, hut there are so many of them that it is a question whether or not it would pay to separate them as a. by-pro-duet in the concentration of ehromite and sell them as diamond dust, which is much used in the cutting and polishing: of diamonds and other gems. ,.

Sir Alexander Hosie's report on the progress which China has ir.-nU in suppressing the cultivation of t .<> poppy appears in the form of a I'.ir eign Office White Paper, p ii>!.si!i. .i at the end of Juno. ''.e r<•, ■rt applies to the five provinces rf >'■■■.<.•.- si, iShaiisi, Kan.su, Yiinna.ii, and .Si'.ecliuaii, and confirms the belief that tho poppy will have entirely disappeared from Chinese soil within two years. Sir Alexander, who is intimately acquainted with those, provinces, reports a reduction of 7n per cent, in Yunnan, of 30 per cent, in Slipnsi, and of something under 2n per cent, in Ivansu. Of Szecihuan he writes: "As the result of my personal investigation, extending over thirty-four days' travel overland, and of the testimony of others, I am satisfied that poppy cultivation has . . . been suppressed in Szechu-an." The great importance, of the suppression of the poppy in Szechirnn lies in the fact that itTused to pmduce nearly half the opium grown in China, whilo Yunnan, ranked next in point of quantity, and first throughout the Empire in point of the quality of its opium.

Why endure chapped hands and rough skin? when a few .applications of " Ronzoma Cream" will work wonders in a very short time. Obtainable, from C. S. Keedwell's Pharmacy in Is fid jars.—Aclvt.