NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

'lhe number ol calves inoculated against blackleg in the North Taranak' district by the Agricultural Department’s inspector of stock (Air T. \A ■ Sutton tins season totals 15,085, including 1775 males and 13,1)10 females. This total, while well above that for average years, which is approximatcß 13.000 to 1.1.00(1, is about 1700 less than last season, which was an exceptionally good one. A .Meriden (Conn.) lactory superintendent’s will was tiled recently, and discovery was made that he had ieli virtually bis entire estate, valued at about 59,000 dollars, to a young man who had helped to support himself by selling newspapers. '.lhe story is tli.it this youth had never failed to give the "lonesome old man” it smile as the hoy passed through the lactory selling pH papers. The eirctimstaiu'e had so impres-ed the .superintendent that he has mad.,' the young man independent through hi:s will. Somebody in Lodnoti the other day raised the question that where do Italian organ-grinder- when they retire niter malting a torlune. A traveller who recently arrived from the Coldiuenl declares that among the Italian mountains he came across a whole ullage of well-to-do Italians, all of whom speak F.ttgli-h with an accent They are retired organ-grinders who, as a result of their ••grindings,’’ are living in luxury in the little colony they have founded. Many of them still possess their organs, and often (lie familiar strains of a once popular English song may he heard in tho quiet village streets. The usefulness on a farm ol a billygoat as a soli' 1 1 varthdog against the germs of foot and mouth disease was referred to at '1 uesdav’s meeting of tlm I’rovineial Executive of ihe farmers’ Union, when a circular was road from the Dominion executive on the subject of disease. -Air A ■ I*. 1 etgtisoti said it appeared from the circular that all reasonable precautions were being taken in connection with the disease. and on bis motion the circular was lorn.illy tv.-eived. -Air A. D. Lae took the opportunity to remark that when he was a boy the disease broke out in the district at Home, but bis father's property and a neighbour s oscitiN'd. Their immunity from Ihe disease was attributed to a billy-goat running with the cows. lVople maintained in three days that if was healthy to have a goat on the place. M>' p, (\ llatumond: “Il the disease breaks out here there will he a run on billy-goats!" (Laughter)- “ Nelson Evening Mail."