NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1073, 8 March 1913, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

“Sorry, Bill, I can’t come to the pictures to-night ! Now, don’t look so cross ; yer • ain’t cross, really, are yer. Bill?” “No, I ain’t exactly cross, Liz, but still, it is a bit aggravating for a chap to find he’s washed his hands and face for nothing, ain’t it ?”

Sir Walter Strickland, the baronet who disappeared while on a visit to the South of France, and for whom nearly all Europe was searched, has made it known that he is living in Spain. He declines, however, to reveal his actual address.

An ingenious method of disposing of the ashes of a cremated body has to be recorded. After a woman had been cremated the husband took the ashes to a chemist lor the purpose of extracting iron, which he is now wearing set in his ring, as one would wear adiamond.

Nine years ago there were hardly three or four thousand acres of land within a twenty-mile radius of Te Kuiti under European settlement, but in recent years the position has been so reversed that now barely four or five thousand acres remain under Maori occupancy.

A Chinaman at Whangarei charged with employing in his laundry a Maori girl after hours without a permit, advanced the defence that the girl was his fiance and went to the laundry only in the course of courtship and not to work, while her mother went with her as chaperone. The defence was not successful.

At a baby show in Dunedin, it was a noticeable fact that in many instances families were not confined by any means to one child. The Times states that one mother made that fact clear by the answer she gave a gentleman who expressed his admiration of the latest addition to her family, she. said, “It (the child) is not bad, but you can’t expect too much. This is nine in sixteen years.”

The cost of living is troubling the people of the Hmt and Petone, and a meeting has been held of ladies interested to discuss the question of opening co-operative stores. It is understood that a further meeting will be held this week, when the proposals of a definite nature will be submitted for approval. Subsequently it is intended to elect an executive to carry out the scheme.

The coronation of “King” Te Rata Mabuta took place at Raglan last week. A large number of Maoris and pakehas were present, and some idea of the feasting may be gained from the details of the commissariat, which included 30 tons of potatoes and 40 pigs. Considerably over one hundred sheep aud bullocks were killed. About two tons of fish were caught and dried. Fully two thousand natives were present, some coming from as far as Tauranga an'd Taupo.

Mr McConnell writes as follows in the Agricultural Journal, anent the dairy cow: —“The very best feeding, it accompanied by a kick or a growl, will not induce a cow to yield to her utmost capacity. As a matter of fact, a cow that is abused in any shape or form will yield milk of less quantity and poorer quality than it she were treated with gentleness. The man who kicks or otherwise illtreats a cow should be flogged without mercy. liberal winter feeding of the dairy cow is undoubtedly of the utmost importance, and it is a deplorable fact that a number ot cows in New Zealand die in winter through starvation.”

A well-known and highly respected Chinese resident of Aramoho, who some 12 months ago, when on a visit to his own country, had a very sensational experience, has recently returned to Wanganui (says the Herald). The occasion was his bouse being ransacked by robbers, who killed his wife and carried off his children, whom he afterwards ransomed for again at Aramoho, having brought with him a new partner —a bright young woman, who is very anxious to learn the English language and conform to European