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THE KAIKOURA STAR. KAIKOURA, APRIL 24, 1894.

Kekerangu advises that the Wakatu passed there at 4 o’clock. Beport of River Board meeting on 7th page.

County Council proceedings will be found reported on page 6. Tenders are invited by County’ Council until noon on Saturday for* delivering metal on Davidson's and Cemetery Roads. The force of the heavy’ Nor’-Wester is manifesting itself South. Teh graphic communication south of Cheviot, with Christchurch direct, is interrupted. The County Chairman considers that a weighbridge would be a convenience and an advantage here. Many will concur in this; tbe cost, however, is a stumbling block.

Mr George Lovegrove died a few days ago, near Tiraaru. Deceased was for a number of years manager of the Flaxbourne property. He was an old friend of Mr Gooch’s, and a gentleman much respected by all who knew him.

The Town School Committee elettion proceedings last evening were exceedingly quiet. There was even a little difficulty in getting the required number of householders to accept nomination on the Committee, which may not inaptly be styled the ‘ Hobson’s Choice Committee.’

The Chairman of the County Council remarked at Saturday’s meeting that if landholders disregard the sweet-briar nuisance now, while it is yet of, comparatively, small moment, they’ would have cause to regret their negligence by and bye. They were bound to suffer for their apathy. Eight residents who had promised to supply to tbe Dairy Factory have notified their withdrawal from the engagement. They are mistaken, we hold, in adopting such a course until it is seen whether the action of the Directors in deciding to sink a well on the site chosen (Mis O’Donnell’s property) is, pr is not, warranted by results. should water npt be obtained there in sufficient quantify ami pf gpqd quality then it would be unwise to erect the proposed Factory on the position selected. But until that is demonstrated, ope way er the other, it would be better that judgment should be suspended. That is the course we have decided upon.

Mr Goodall got another consignment—--73 tons—of the famous Brookdale coal by the s.s. Murray yesterday.

The third session of the Mutual Improvement Society is to be opened on the evening of Tuesday, the Ist of May. The proceedings will be of a social character. A musical and literary programme will be presented, and refreshments provided. It is proposed, during the course of the evening, to have a short and sharp debate of twenty minutes on ‘ Smoking : Is it efficacious, or otherwise ?’ There are to be six disputants—three on either side—who will each be allotted three minutes. The object of tne introduction of this item on tbe programme is to give some of those who do not attend tbe meetings of the Society an idea how debates are carried on. It is to be understood that the arguments advanced are not necessarily the opinions of those who take part in the debate, but. that they are put forth simply for the sake of argument. It is to be hoped, in the interests, chiefly, of the younger members of the community who can obtain instructiou and improvement from the proceedings of the Society, that a successful and profitable session will result. It has been clearly shown that the machine possessed by the Kaikoura Threshing Machine Company can, if it is only afforded tbe opportunity, and is under the management of competent bands, do work equal to any other machine of its capacity in the Colony. Indeed there are those here who are prepared to challenge any machine to do better work in any way. When the crop is a poor one, or a dirty one, no machine can do good work at an expeditious rate. But when the conditions are even reasonably good the local machine does excellent work. This week tbe machine has shown what it can produce, having at The Elms put through 1222 bushels in 8 hours 17 minutes. However, it can do even better than that —as a fact, it once, at least, did so at Mr W. Broughan's—and 200 bushels in an hour, can, it is claimed, be put through by it, and in a satisfactory manner. We are informed that The Elms crops are this year (as they have been before) tbe best in the district handled by those in charge of tbe threshing machine. The introduction of payment by results has had the effect of causing a dairyman to pay more attention to the breeding and feeding of his cows than be used to do. The other day, a couple of typical countrymen, who did not look as if they knew decimals from fractions, were discussing, on returning from the butter factory, the returns from their milk. One of them had got an average of 3.5, or as he put it, * three-five,’ and the other 3.7, and they were arguing as to the cause of it. Tbe first one thought the low average was caused by an undue number of newly calved cows, but his companion said this could not have been the reason as ‘ Tom Bland,’ who has also a number of cows just in, had got 3.9, for the month. * Ah, well,’ replied No. 1, philosophically, ‘ he’s got the best cows, that's the long and short of it.’ This conversation, however, clearly indicates that the factory system, with its attendant circumstances of payment by results, is having a directly elevating effect ou both the dairy farmers and the cows.— Taranaki Herald.

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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 732, 24 April 1894, Page 4

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THE KAIKOURA STAR. KAIKOURA, APRIL 24, 1894. Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 732, 24 April 1894, Page 4

THE KAIKOURA STAR. KAIKOURA, APRIL 24, 1894. Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 732, 24 April 1894, Page 4

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