NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2242, 22 February 1921, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

“The farmery of this country can do nothing unless they rush down to Wellington and seek the advice and support of the Government,” stated a speaker at the Masterton A. and P. Association’s smoke concert. “The soouer they learn to work oft' their own bat the better it will be for them.”

The births registered in the four metropolitan areas of the Dominion during the month of January amounted to 845, as against 775 in December. The deaths totalled 323 — a decrease of 41 as compared with tho previous month. Of the deaths, 57 were of children under three years of age, or 17.65 per cent, of the whole number.

The exercising of a jury under the surveillance of policemen was a sight witnessed in Christchurch last week. The jury which was empannelled on the Matthews murder trial were taken to entertainments at night under police guard, .and then conducted to an hotel, where they were boarded and lodged until the duties of the twelve good men and true were completed. Between breakfast and the opening of the court at 11 a.m. they were “exercised" by means of a walk in procession along some of the streets.

Americans are always announcing something novel, and the latest is .that “the bull does the milking.” For an hour and twenty minutes every morning and evening now the 2,000 lh. animal is tethered in a treadmill which turns the wheels of the milking machine, and so milks 20 or 30 cows. When first intro-

duced to his work, the proud master of the herd was refractory. He was soon disciplined,, however, by the installation of 'a spring-operated shipper that thumped., bis back its often as he stopped treading, and was carried by gravity against the trigger mechanism. The exercise' keeps the bull in excellent physical condition.

“If you want the finest wool, where do you come?” asked Mr D. G. Greenwood, addressing the Prime Minister at Amhcrley, “If you want the primest mutton, where do you come? To North Canterbury! If you want wheat to feed our people, where do you come? To North Canterbury! And if you want a champion record-breaking horse, where do you come?” Mr Greenwood’s answer to his question was drowned in laughter. Mr Greenwood, is a well-known owner. “Last night when I shook hands with the Prime Minister," he concluded, “he recognised me, I suppose, by these (motioning to the ends of his somewhat elongated moustache). ‘llow is Gloaming?’ said he!”

“For a man to say that, he was not atvare of the condition of goods lie sold is no excuse. Every shopkeeper has a duty to his customers to see that his goods arc in good eondidtion,” said Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., at the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when lining Charles Hueston, a butcher at Courtney Place, £lO for having sold meat unfit for human consumption to a lady customer.- The defendant. stated that he had purchased the meat from the city abattoirs, and had had no idea that it was tainted when he sold it. He had not since seen it, but accepted the assurance of the police, and entered a plea of guilty.

A correspondent writes as follows in the Palmerston Standard: — “Truly (he British public arc long; suffering! I have waited for some time to hear some expression of opinion on the prices charged for meat in view of the present prices of ‘fats.’ A farmer frieild has realised less than £1 per head for a splendid line of fat ewes averaging over 701 b. each. The companies are offering 4d per pound less for overweights, and the whole tendency is downwards. In fact, we are, as your correspondent points out, back to the 1912-14 prices, but the butchers are still claiming 1920 prices. The drapers, bootmakers, tailors, etc., are reducing their prices. Will the butchers follow their example?”

At the annual fair of the Animal Rescue League at Boston, a dog with spectacles was shown as an example of humanitarian' assistance to animals, The dog is Nemo, a spaniel of high degree. Riding in an open motor ear on windy days had weakened his eyes, and goggles were prescribed and titled by an oculist. Nemo has worn the spectacles since the summer. The glasses arc fastened to a bone frame that runs to a Collar. Nemo appears to regard them as a necessity, but is pleased to be relieved of them for play with his consort Tcssie, a collie, still unspectacled.

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