LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 3 January 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A number of the settlers in Te Pua, being unable to attend the Regatta, owing to the milking, decided to hold a picnic at the Sand HiUs, on Monday, a very enjoyable time being spent.

Tendeis for the purchase and removal of tbe old sawmill on the Kaipara Dairy property, Helens ville South, will be received by Mr J. C. Biuimer up till January 19 th.

Notice is given of an extraordinary Goneral Meeting of the A. and P. Association to be held on Monday, January 8 th, to confirm, a lesolutibn enabling the Association to raise money by mortgage tv pui chase the Show grounds. j

A notice of interest to ratepayers who have not yet paid their rates g.ppears in our columns.

Faulkner, the well-known South African cricketer, broke his leg while playing Association football in Norfolk. ' > ' ■

Statistical returns show that there are 242,611 acres under oats in New South Wales. The yield is estimated at 1,715,000 bushels of oats and 180,----000 tons of hay.

The foundation-stone of the Waipu Coronation Hall was laid on Monday by Mr A.-G-. Mackenzie, County chairman and a banquet was given by the Library Committee in the evening.

Ladies be considerate and tactful, yet firm, with any refactory draper who may try to substitute any other make for the famous WARNER'S Rustproof Corsets.

The Whakapirau Dairy Factory's boiler gave in last week, and the factory has had to close down for several weeks, until a new boiler is secured. The cream is going to the Maungaturoto Facto'-y in the meantime. This will be a big loss to the factory, coming right in the busy time.

We have had several inquiries from business people visiting HelensvUle during the past few days, as to the possibility of securing suitable buildings to open up business,

Is pig breeding profitable in this district? Mr W. H. Bradly this morning brought in a pig bred on his farm, Te Pua, weighing 4401bs dead weight, which was sold at 3|dper lb., bringing in £5 19s 2d. Pigs of this size are few. certainly, but their is no doubt that pig breeding pays.

On New Year's Eve business was brisk. The holidays passed off very quietly, the only event of any interest locally being the Annual Regatta on New Year's Day. A number of residents spent the holidays Jon the Murawai Beach. Yesterday was very quiet. During the holidays the accommodation at the HelensviUe Hot Springs was taxed to the utmost, and it is quite apparent that in the future enlargements will have to be made to the boardmghouses in. the vicinity.

The Kaipara Dairy Factory Co. Ltd., is at present running at its heights for the present season, turning1 out about 250 boxes of butter weekly which is over 70 boxes more than, was anticipated for the year. The grading all through has been about 93, which is above the average, and the surplus butter has been sold at Is O^dper lb. This price has only been paid once before in Auckland this season, and that was for 200 boxes fr<nn the Cambridge Factory. We congratulate the Kaipara Factory on the excellent output. It is more than probable that the fac* torywill have to be enlarged during the coming slack season to cope with next year's expected output.

At a special meeting of the Otama> tea County Council Held in the Council Chambers, Paparoa, on Monday, 18th inst,, the Chairman, Mr Jackman, and individual Councillors, congratulated Cr. J. GL Coates upon his return to Parliament. Mr Coatee, M.P., in responding, thanked the chairman and members for their expressions, and added that the weffare and require-, ments of local bodies generally would receive his very best attention and support. Ho also hoped that the Council would, not lose sight of the importance of sending a representative to the annual Counties' Conference at Wellington. Also he considered it essential that similar conferences should be inaugurated between county engineers to exchange ideas and keep in the front rank of progress.

Consideration of the question ol closing Mountain. Roarl^near Mr Judson's property, on the Waitakerei Banges, has been deferred for three months by the Waitemata County Council. The question was to have been submitted, to meetings of ratepayers on December 7th, but as that was election day, and an agitation had been raised against the closing of tho road on the grounds that it gave access to one of the ranges, it was decided to leave the matter in abeyance until March next A member of the Waitemata County Council informen a "Star" representative that the Council was quitp unbiassed in the matter. Representation had been made to the. effect that the road served no good purpose, sine« it was too precipitous to be used for vehicular traffic, and furthermore that the City Council was no", desirous of keeping it open in view of proximity to the water supply. The matter, however, is to be submitted to further meeting of ratepayers in March

Much has 1 been made of the fact that the violent fluctuations in the British butter market, of recent years, have been all against a steady expanding demand for butter, and, on the other hand, an increasing call for margarine. Now we are informed that the increasing wages being secured by the Home artisans is having the opposite effect. The better class of artisans it is said, do not like substitutes, and the recent rise in wages has led to the competition of margarine being not nearly so marked as it formerly was. This is good news, as it indicates that with the general tendency toward a higher standard of living the vrorld over, the demand for butter will ex* pand and an increase in production will be absorbed.

Tonking's Linseed Emulsion.— The only oertain cure. From all chemists and stores, ls 6d, 2s 6d, 4s 6d.

Eoslyn suits are built with a thorough knowledge of the science of correct suit-building.

For coughs and colds take Tonking'a lanseed Emulsion, easily taken, children 5 «]*" oFrom all chemists and stores ls 6d, 2s 6d, 4s 6d.

A fire broke out aboard the Union Company's steamer Pareora, while lying in the Sydney Harbour on Thursday last. It was extinguished by the crow after a quantity of ./timber in the lamp locker had been damaged.

Another.feasible suggestion in connection with the lifebuoy picked up on the beach at Waiuku recently is that it was lost off the schooner Waratah, which wps stranded on the Tory Shoal, Kaipara, some two years ago, and afterwards refloated.

The marriage of Miss Rubi Seddon to Staff"» Surgeon Samuel H. Woods, R.N., which took place at St. MaryleboDe Parish Church, London, on Saturday, November 4th, is described by " The British Australasian " as " one of the prettiest $nd most picturesque Colonial wedding that has taken place in London."

Sir Ernest Shackleton declared, 1 in London last week that he is of opinion that Captain Scott has reached the South Pole. Nothing has been heardof Captain Scott's South'. Pole expedition for some lime, and anxious inquiries are being made. Referring to the possibilities of the case, Sir Ernest said: 'If the weather has been favorabla it seems to me that the party ; that arrived at Beafdmore Glacier with the largest amount of stores hae^i reached the Pole. Captain Scott has the advantage in number of menjflll experience. His expedition sh uldfpv turn to Stewart Island early in ¥fp.' . A few days ago we heard a "repp^ ask what are brains worth? Kail depends on who they belong to, in other words, who is making use of them. The owner of Pietertje Maid Ormsby, the champion Holstein cow that produced 2567.8 lbs of milk in 30 days, has biains that are worth con« \ siderably more than those of the man who keeps and feeds a cow that will give only 3000 lbs or less of milk in a year. S6me people might follow put this reasoning and concede that the majority of our farmers are not mak- _ ing very good use of their brains, since most of the farm cows do not greatly exceed 3000 pounds in milk, yield. Butter and cheese are manufactured from the raw material, milk. The idea should be economical production—large quantities of milk ttt low cost. Things needed are better cows and better care—in other words, more brains.-Canadian paper.

Some surprising remarks were made by Bisliop Julius on Cnristaias Day in the the Christshurch Cathedral. There were many in the church, he said, who had very grave doubts about the divinity of Christ, and he believed that tkeir difficulties had arisen through a false setting of the divine truth in the first place from a false account of what was called " Jesus Worship," They had stopped ahort of the Father in the almost idolitrbus worship of the man Jesus. They were hot called upon to address hymns to the man Jesus, but to call through him to the Father. "If,''he said, " i could only get rid of the infirmities of body and tongue, of dulness on brain and mind and wifa, I could then tell what I mean down in the heart of me, and I would make you jump."

Some consolation for the pangs-of defeat may be found by each of the beaton Parliamentary candidates in the fact that he-is in very good company. Sir John Findlay, the Hon. George Fowlds, Mr McNab, Mr Field, Hon. T. Y. Duncan, Mr C. H. Poole, Mr Jennings, Mr Hogg, Mr Luke— there's a little list but of which a very capable Liberal Ministry might have been formed—if only they had been in the right place! A distinguished company of old Parliamentarians who have toiled hard for their constituencies and the Dominion. It's hard luck. But there's plenty of fight in them yet, and they may have an opportunity of exhibiting their powers in another election battle before many' months have pnssed. And then the tables may be turned. One never knows. The voting public is a fickle creature, an unreliable sort of cat; one never knows which way it will jump, nor how easily the prospect of a free joy-ride in , a "buzz-waggoa" may. influence the direction of that jump,—Free Lance.