General Items.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 234, 10 November 1905, Page 2

General Items.

Among the twelve good men and true cn a recent Supreme Court jarv were : Frederick Pink. George Grey, Edward Brown, George Black, Edmanci White, and Joseph Ths police called it “ the Rainbow Jury.”

Notwiihstau Ing Lind Commit siona and academic debatea in Parliament ’the people may rest aaacrad that ro lougas Mr Seddon can retain office, every impediment possible tq the acquiring of «he freehold will be put in the', way of Hie lessees.--Hami'ton A-gas.

, Al s f vir i ■ love and war, «od nio«t thin'a ore fair in electioneering. There does not, however, appear « o bs anything like fairness in the attempt made in Parliament a few days ago to asperse Tom Burd, the Government R«nd Engineer who has of (lie King Country communiceinna. It happened that Mr Bard, was somewhere iu the neighbourhood of Kawhia when the Liberal candidate vi-iited the I distuct, t.nd that the two travelled over s line of the miry ways of that deleeu j able region iu company for a day or | two . It whh at once coo eluded Hint | the engineer bad been sent by the ; Government to look after Harry i Greenslade, but apart from the fact ' that that y JO ng politician haa the faculty nf looking after himseK, nobody ■ who knows Tom Bard would accuse | him of lending him-elf to any electicuj eeriug dodge. Tbe fact of the j matter is simply thal in the notorious I King Country, as in the Arabian desert, it is much tbe fashion to wait until two or three people gather before a start is made. It is much safer to travel with a bind «.f six or a dozen than aloueor with a single companion. Accidents will happen occasionally. . Aho.it is conceivable that ifa traveller ■ heard that the R >ad Engineer was coming be would waits week for him. And Tom Burd delights to show anybody through the bush, without regaard to“ creed or caste.” He would make no difference between the Kaiser Wilhelm and William Observer.

The biggest pig on raeord, wea one two and a half years old, recently killed at New York, weighing 16091 b alive and 13361 b dress ad. He was oyer nine feet from snout to tail, two and a half fee. across the loins and rump, and had a girth of six feet.

Delightful sample of typogrophicai peculiarities from an account of a count! y wedding: -“She tore orthodox wreath of orange blossoms, and harried a beautiful flower bouquet.’* Sounds fearfully destructive for a bride. Tbe said bride has probably sent the groom round to interview the printer before this. , plough men aud cattleman Irish or French preferred; ne high pdaoated or footballers inclined wanted,** reads an advertisement >a the Southern Daily Echo. Let us haye land for settlement by •II means, bnt there is do reason why old settlers should be interfered with as long as there is laud available which can be acquired with tbe consent of the owner, not to mention the large areare of native land which wi4 shortly be available in various parts of * the province for tbe parpews Napier Herald.

The Baglaa paper is reaporreible for the etatemeut that Mr Frank Weat tho manager of the Kaaroa dairy factory, who has had oxportoaoo at tho Ngaire and Mangorei (Taranaki), eo operative factories thinks tbe batter he ia now turning out, ia of batter quality than the general prod act of the Taranaki factories. It is, he lava freer from the tainted flavour of weeds' owing, he surmises, to the newness and cleanness of local pastures as compared with those io tbe older daryioe dis.riots. s

A rather rough estimate of the cost of cutting noxious weeds on native and Crown lands and nO . oecupied reserves for one season, ia as follows:—Auckland, £131,000Napier, £29,300; Wellington, £18,363’; Marlborough, Nelson, and Wesikndl £33,500; Canterbhry and Kaikoura, £080; Otago, £800: total, £213,645, Mr Seddon, during the debate on the Supplementry Estimates, stated that the Land Tenure Commission would not cost £lO,OOO, of which £BOOO was proposed to be voted on the supple, meutary Estimates, Mr Massey urged it was £13,000 at least. Me Seddon denied this, declaring that £lO,OOO would cover printing and everything. It was worth every penny. Mr Masrey: " Not worth 10,000 larlhlugs."

A use for Hansard has at last been discovered. Tbe Lyttlelon Times soys it makes excellent shaving paper. But why should non-shavers Is taxed to provide free paper for the Knights of iht) razor?

A oanJidaie for ,i Ma/tlaad Consuiueney has publicly decljrsd that he I*ll t standing beoaure-hi iadtd to get an invitation to a gardeneutriy givse, by tbe present memberf H e weijj have stood in any ca«e.-Jtulletin.