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Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1928, Page 2

Notice of an impounded cow appears in this issue. Special ten per cent off all shirts. W. H. Stop forth.—Advt. The half-yearly meeting of the executive of the Country Racing ('lull’s Association will lie held at Wellington on 24th mst. .Mails which left Wellington on tlx util December via San Francisco arrivci in London on titli January.

-M. Houston and 0. will sell 50 cases of tomatoes to-morrow afternoon at 2.30.

During the past few weeks, savs the Christchurch “Press,” there have been persistent rumours /in Teinuka that Air T. I). Burnett, M.P., the present member for the Temuka electorate, will not contest (lie seat at the next Genoral Flection and that the Hon. Mr Xoswnrtliy will stand in the Bctorm interest. The reports having been brought under the notice of Mr Burnett he lias made the following public statement.: “1 emphatically deny that I am about to retire from politics. It is my definite intention to contest the Temuka seat at the next (Icuiein’ F, led ion.”

The Bailway Department lias issued a handy booklet containing information regarding the location of suitable pieknicking sites bandy to the railway line. The West Coast section <overs the territory between the railway terminus at Boss and up as far north as Pic-ton. The location of each site is given with the number which can lie aoeommdated and the nature ;f the sports obtainable on the grounds nearby. A table of distances fro 1 i one point to any other is also given, with the railway fares for both dll! l"cn and adults.

Information has Been received by the Department of Agriculture that further outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in live stock have occurred in Britain, and accordingly the Department is not sparing any efforts to prevent its introduction into New Zealand. The officers of the Department have kept a close watch on the position for some time past, and the regulations framed last year have been, and will continue to be, strictly enforced. The outbreaks in Britain are regarded as very serious. The position there is being watched closely by the High Commissioner’s Office, which is constantly informing the Department of Agriculture oil the matter. The Di-rector-General of Agriculture (Dr O. J. Reakes), who is now in England, has cabled to the Department as ro'i lows:—“Several further outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease. Position serious. See that straw packing regulations are strictly enforced.”

Reports from South Westland indi.cate that feed, being very plentiful this season the stock are doing excellently. Some prime bullocks will continue to come out of the district for some time, the supply being good. Fat lambs are also in excellent order and numerically the increase is also substantial. Settlers engaged in dairying are finding a large increase in the milk supply, ensuring greater production in the matter of cheese and butter. The settlers generally have the promise of a very good season in the South. Shearing also has been very successful this season, the weather being all that could be desired for the purpose. Those engaged cropping have had a good harvest, assuring increased supplies of winter feed. The prospects for the year are therefore encouraging to those on the land.

See Addisons windows for hats at greatly reduced prices.—Advt. Tenders are invited for painting Koiterangi Hall, labour only, closing on Monday night. Fuller particulars from Mr AA T . A. Jamieson, Koiterangi. The Municipal Band will render a programme on Cass Square to-night, commencing at 7.45. Suitable music will be rendered to enable anyone wishing to dance on the green to do so.

The New River Co.’s electrical gold dredge at Dunganville, which has been laid up for repairs during the holidays, is expected to resume operations within the next few days. Reliable suit cases and travelling bags to be cleared at ridiculous prices. tV. H. Stopforth.—Advt,

Hall' a ton of dynamite, or even two hundredweight, would cud Auckland’s present water shortage. This is the assertion of a German geologist, at present visiting Auckland, who has seen dynamite used to produce rain many times in Germany. “It would cost £3OO or £IOO to do it, but apparently it would be worth it.” he remarked. “You pack the .dynamite, and send it up in a balloon with a time fuse. In half an hour it will go up anything from 11.000 to 20.000 feet. It would be a particularly good place to try it over the AA’aitakercs. The force of an explosion will probably have an oiled 20 miles cither way, but it never does any damage, the force going upwards. Coder present cloudy conditions. I should think two hundredweight of explosives would give enough rain to fill Hie dams.” lleversible wool rugs, bedroom mats, axminister carpet squares, etc., to be cleared at cost price. \Y. Tf. Stopforth.- Advt.

The I! ouso ol T/ords is wanted to j correct and delay; to revise' the mistakes of haste and to postpone the designs of unscrupulous partisans until such time as public opinion can be tested by extra-forancous discussion. The men who are most likely to do this kind of work well are not eager, busy and ambitious politicians, bid men who, as Lord Salisbury onoo said of the peers in the House _ of Lords, “approach politics in a spirit of good-humoured indifference.” Three fourths of the peers are not politicians at all, hut plain country gentlemen, with energy of their class. It is true that these three-fourths are Conservatives. in in the sense of being opposed to a Socialist Government. But then it is also true that three-fourths of the males in Britain who are over 30. and who are possessed of property, inherited or acquired, in money or hums, are likewise opposed to a Socialist Government, not as Conservative paitisans, hut as men who have something to he confiscated. The nearest approach to a non- partisan chamber in the whole world is certainly the House of Lords, because its members have nothing to fear or to gain, or to hope from politics as a profession.—A.A.B. in The British Review.”

There’s no sticky mess when yo polish with liquid “Tan-01.” Unsur passed for furniture, floors, linoleums and all leather goods. Easy to apply Economical. All grocers.—A R.