Mount Ida Chronicle FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1917.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 20 July 1917, Page 3

Mount Ida Chronicle FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1917.

The Naseby Branch of the Red Cross Society recently sent away the following list of articles, the result of 41 months' work:—46 pairs day socks, 21 pairs bed socks, 12 suits pyjamas, 11 day shirts, 16 under flannels, 7 service bags, 10 under pants, 3 body belts, 14 balaclavas, 2 pairs cuffs, 13 diet cloths, 16 fomentation cloths. Miss M'Lean, the hon. set. of the Bunedin Centre, wrote in reference to the case: "Your order will be sent away in your ease, as you desire. We are looking forward to your contribution arriving, as your work is always so well dona and so beautifully packed." The hon. sec. of the local branch (Miss A. Brown) makes a request for more workers.' Those who find it convenient to do so can tak s their work home. It is cut out and Dinned together, so that all that is required is the sewing. There are a good many good workers in the town but the need is so great that more will be welcomed. The abov* list is a creditable one, bat the officers would like to sea a hetter one next time. Attention 13 drawn to th«> auction sale advertised by Mr R. F. Inder. Very fine weather has prevailed lately, which has been quite springlike in its mildness. This has been fortunate for farmers, enabling them to get. their ploughing well forward, thus compensating for the scarcity of labour; and a much larger area will bo put under crop than could be done in an ordinary seas>n under present conditions. , The clerical star! of the County Council are now preparing for the election Bof councillors next November Bices' torai rolls for the several .ce f open for inspection at place<= ad- % vertised. For Children's Hacking Coogh at night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure la 6d, 2a 6d,

i "Oh Clarissa my dear, come quickly | here! I'm certain poor baby is dying—

It's always counted a fatal sign When a croupy child ceases crying." "Oh, talk sense, Tilly! and don't be ailly:

He's improving, for I've made sure— Come close and peep at the darling asleep! He's had Wood's Great Pepperrrint Care."

The following recipe has prov et * most stccessEul in poisoning rabbits, and is so easily prepared that any farmer can mix it. Feed the rabbits three times with oats boiled in molasses and water, and then mix strychnine in oats treated the same way. Mix loz of the poison to 241b of boiled bats. One farmer who used this mixture got £? for the skins caught by using 16s worth of the mixture, and claims that the rabbits will take it equally well on lea ground or paddocks sown down in young grass, oats, turnips or rape.

Sir James Allen informed a representative of the Lyttelton Times on Friday that pra«tically all local agreements for working conditions in New Zealan'l coal mines now are completed, only a few remaining which am in process of being arranged. "All the coal trouble is over," he declared, "and there is not likely to be any further dispute till the war is over. The coal miners—l'm glad to say this of them — are just as earnestly anxious to help to win the war as anybody else."

« The Minister of Defence has receivfej* a cable reporting that part of the 26t fa Reinforcements and the first part of the 27th Reinforcements have reached a certain port of call, all well.

A patriotic hare drive was held on Saturday on the land between Kokonga and Patearoa, and 180 hares were secured by about 50 guns from Patearoa, Kyebnrn, and Waipiata, and two from Naseby and Runfurly. The ladiea of the Waipiata Red Cross provided lunch. The Kyeburn Committee will hold a drive next Saturday. The continued spell of damp weath" er though doubtle s of considerable value to hign pastoral country, is causing some anxiety to farmers, for the reason that sheep are becoming infested with footrot. " This trouble, which is of course at all times a serious one in Southland and other parts of New Zealand, fortunately is very rarely experienced in Central Otago. A local district farmer, and one with well over a quarter of a century's experience, assures us that he has never seen footrot so bad in this part of the country as it is just now. A' line of hoggets which he recently purchased were badly affected and on mustering his own flock ewes he was horrified to find that a big majority of tnem were also in a bad way.—Dunstan Times. Regarding the number of men under arms Srr James Allen revises his statement, and explains that the total of thos*» who are still in camp i 3 86.000. The number who have gone is 76,943 men and nurses, the latter numbering 435.

A hare drive will be held at Kokonga on Saturday, starting from Mr J. Peterson's, at 10 a.m. sharp All shooters welcomed. Last week's casualty list includes the names of Private Gerald M. and Lance-corporal Peter Paul O'Malley among the wounded. They are sons of Mr and Mrs J. F. O'Malley, Naseby. The re-appointment of Mr C. J. Inder as a member of the Otago Land Board has been gazetted. An old Chinaman named Lee Wah died at the hospital on Monday afternoon. He was sbout 82 years of age. A rather remarkable deal in sheep has been made in the Masterton district. A settler purchased a line of over 1000 at a clearing sale at 26s per head. These were sold three times on the road within a week, the last buyer paying 353 per head for them. A resourceful farmer, says the Scien" title American, has found a new .way to use dynamite that saved a nearly matured crop of potatoes in a badly flooded field. Unusually heavy rains filled all the neighbouring drains and ditches, so there was no relief for the flooded field; and in this emergency the owner put down a number of holes Bft to 12ft deep with a post auger, and exploded a charge of dynamite in'the bottom of each. Thiß opened up passages into the sandy subsoil, through which the water drained rapidly, and the crop was saved, although many nsar-by crops were ruined by the excess of water standing in the fields.