NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1035, 25 April 1912, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Sydney Sun relates the following: Mr C. R. Brown, a Pitt Street auctioneer, is £2600 richer as the result of Coen mo's win in t.ie Do iKv.Dei iimiuiaip. A lew nights ago he dreamt that he met a friend coming off the Randwick racecourse and asked him what had won the Doncaster. “Lochano,” was the reply. The fact that Lochano was a rank outsider did not deter Mr Brown —in fact, it added zest to the wagers which, in spite of the ridicule of his friends, lie proceeded to make. Some of his money was got on at 100 to 1, and now the lucky punter is in the happy position of the man who laughs last.

The New Zealand Trade Commissioner reports that California butter merchants prefer butter in cube-shaped boxes, as the butter in their market is put up in pound and two-pound blocks, and their cutting machines are made so as to cut up the exact weight and quantity from the cube boxes without any waste. They have stated, that the quality of the New Zealand butter is so good that they can sell it in their own wrappers as the best California production. They defend their custom of selling New Zealand butter as Californian by the argument that the consumers would expect to purchase it if sold as New Zealand at cents per pound less than their own product, because they think their own is the best in the world.

“ Measles and mumps, though infectious diseases, are not gazetted so under the Public Health Act,” remarked Dr. Frengley at the Taranaki Hospital Board meeting recently. He pointed out that at one time measles were gazetted as an infectious disease, but as it was recognised that the powers held by the local authorities then would not enable them to cope with an epidemic of measles, this disease had been eliminated from the list. It was probable, however, that both measles and mumps would be gazetted shortly. He also remarked that New Zealand was much in advance ot England in dealing with iulectious diseases, as tuberculosis had only been recently gazetted as an infectious disease in England, whereas it has been gazetted as such in New Zealand tor many years.