The Huntly Press Notes and Comments.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 1, Issue 23, 31 December 1912, Page 2

The Huntly Press Notes and Comments.

As wo goto press tli > Old Yiar, with ils joys and : N w year. 2 s antic T patuills and regrets. | its siicces-es and it- failures, L rapidly approaching its end, leaving us to summarise our ex- | periences, and to balance our j mental, moral, social and physi- ■ cal ledger, s > that in 1913 we | may avoid pitfalls that have •i proved disastrous in the past, o; follow on lines that apparently j will load to future success, to comfort, and to that material prosperity which is the goal of the vast majority. As the new leaf . in the old book is turned, or the ! virgin page of a new volume is i open ul, fresh resolutions are j formed, and the value ot the ex- ; j peri nu- 's of the past is duly c -- ; timat-rd, sjthat with hop? renewal ed and with rejuvenated vigour, j old faults and failings may o? abandoned with the Old Year in fav >ur of those determinations j which, too often, simply go t > c nnplete tlie pavement leading to t!i? place that shall !>_* namejde-. •; for, after all. it is difficult to ! j break new ground, to forsake the | | "I d grooves, and t j begin afre h. Experience is sai l to be the j j grv.it teacher ; but, as the An:-- I tralian poetpu’s it, in summing up ; ] his own life of folly and pleasure, j i of success and bit._• r failure, | mo;-i of us. even with a lifetime's : I teaching for our guidance, j vv./iild, if born again, follow the ! same old cour.-i? that ha- made; u what we nvr. However, with ; tlio N ".v Year, pessimism nuiy be ■ thrown aside, and with anticipation “ to point the view,” we may l cultivate our opportunities, and, ; “still achieving, still pursuing,” ! endeavour to do our best for others as well as for ourselves, 1 so that we m :y, even in the I tinie t degree, le iv/the world a j | little bet;, r than we found it. May the res Jutions that we i Lain ! aid t > that prosperity in tli • N *w Y ear which we all do- | sire ! Such i • our New Year wish ! j for all*our readers. ■ Though the D >minio:i i< at proI financial • S -A t oxperiancinKa stkinckncv I ’-; 1 ': 011 01 h u incial , stringency, tno prospeeds for tli3 New Year appear bright and hopeful. While the - monetary tightness, experienced principally by the Government i and by local bodies, is expected to disappear as the years grow < older, our staple products arc J still in great demand, and ‘ new markets are being ex- 1 ploited- The renewal of the short-dated loans, amounting t > ' some £15,000,000, and the ■' raising of a new loan of ; from £2,000,000 t0£2,500,000, will ' place the finances of’The 1) amnion in a better condition. Woo! ' ' alone i> now at such a high price t that it is worth to New Zeal an I i about £4,000,000 more than in 1908. The butter and che-e-.e output, nn far, is considerably in excess of former years, and a bountiful grain harvest is antic! pat-ed. Thus, a prosperous yea? ( may be expected, and in that s prosperity every New Zealan ler [ rViIJ be a participant, even though c 19J3 ends with the u i!uck> 111 l ll- ! c her, ’ I The hiU'ijessing' of the tides f.n- i HaRNE.-sSIHO l ' le Kenerutioi) THE SUN. Gt T’ ‘Y e energy has become an accom plislied fuel, 1 and the sun power plant recently erected for the purpose of e pumping water for irrigation ill p Egypt.hi.ls fair to prove a lingo q success in countries where water a

is badly needed and where fuel is expensive. Tii9 designer of the sun-eng ic claims that .when it is in fail working order as a commercial proposition he will be able to compete with coal at ton shillings a ton. The feature of the engine is the steam generator which, by the disposition of sheets of glass mirrors, collect tho maximum heat from the sun, and retains the maximum- by the use of a dull black paint that does not reflect more than six per cent of the h >at rays. . rhe mi cone i rate th ■ heat of the > the >f id■ v ; water in tanks coated with black paint. The avatar becomes heated, and gives off the steam which posses to the engine and causes the wheels to revolve. Of course, the plant can only be utilised in tropical countries. The -old’ ideas and th - old customs, as far, at NEW IDEA ! east - stheyrofei WEDDINi*. F marriages, have t>o strong a hold on the fav ? to ivlii-? before the moral n >velties which of lat? are being “dished up” with such frequent iteration. To some there is a faein ation in anything that is new. and a novel morality, or a new philosophy, like a a up-to-date article of wearing apparal, whether it be a crinoline or a harem skirt, catches on aud win- favour in certain circles favour, however, that is as fleeting as L is evanescent. r ■ . is c'leiate-t of n >veiitLs, a:i 1 hails as so many new ideas do, from the S at?.-. Two graduates from Leland Stanford Junior University were .married >:i Saturday, S?p -,nb?r M at L>: Angelos, un ! .• the “a?.v i le i*h which has animated s > many young people of late. ! : iv ity is a coeducitioni! estah!: : ; i:n v £. an 1 the two fell in I>. with each other while pursuing their studies. 7vlr thiarles Wadiburne, ' years of age, while his bride. Miss Julia Chandler, is only , twenty-on?. The young couple, i whose parents are among the ! wealthiest and most influential ! people in California, wished “ to j join tludr lives together” with no j ceremony of any sort, but were ; persuade {to go through some j form in order to secure their i admission to society, which | otherwise would ostracise them j Consequently, before a civil j authority the two young people I igr ■ to tako e tch ot \ “partners”, a-id signed a con- | tract declaring that their uni >a j would he terminablo at th? | ' free to love elsewhere, and that I they would be mutually respon- I sible for the upbringing of any j ‘their i Twing t > tho prominence of the ! fa lilies I : : i - na iagehas sau ! ?msid-?; able interest in Cali- j fornia. , ! Jii'-t as all that glitters is not 1 U U ' !l W all t *:»*! .. suimnier- is not sax. i Wood. a L ’ 1 ;.' ;l Ura PyC/innimting on the I >n the fact tli.it prices of silk | Ire s stuffs have fallen considerably of lat?, wonders how ! n.my women who dress i.i these j dieapcr materials know that ! hey are mi T? from wo id pulp, j md have not even the m >st j emote cenneclion with the ! iik-w orm. It i- the old ; tory of d? nan l and supply. : :he demand for silk materials I ias grown en >nnously of recent \ ear.-. As this draper puts it, J there w? - a time when a woman j ot a black silk dress and wore it ; or years, and only people of ! .lean* possessed this one silk j ress,” but now, especially in 1 i ummer, “almost every woman j hat comes along”, is wearing I ilk, Man, i. -. have sw -! ! de demand by wanting silk j ' ocks au l au iersvear. Th 1 1 esult i.- that the silk-worm has J 1 ot been able to sippl y th' I 1 mount silk re a a re 1, an i 1 duiteration and subst : l ut> m e: :e ' eon resorted t). T!ie-m hive ; ! een employed so carefully that ( ic draper quot? 1 ; e a ' ?rts that there is no -o h •' ling as pure siik in the | 1 iisrket, and says 'that til ■ 1 ie quality of silk in a garment | ■' ui be determined only fey i_V lemical analysii. Manufu - : *' irers in England and on the j 1 ontiriont have been experi- i t en ting with w md pulp fibre as i \ substitute for the product of f ie silk-worm for the past three j r ears, hut it was only lately that ley finally mice??.led in over- ( miing all th? draw-backs to its y '6. There are new half a dozen r g firms engaged in the 0 anufacfciuo of all kin Is of p ilk” goo I - from wood pulp p ire, including laces, trimmings , id stocking s. “When you meet j beautiful woman now a days. | ii lvo is l> • tut I fully g iwiic I with : liinmoring silks, it will require ! jj . serious stretc'i of im.igina-j r( )n to think of her bring encased j }, wood.” j c — N