The Motueka Star PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. “Te Oranga Moti Iwi.” FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1901.

Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 22, 25 October 1901, Page 2

The Motueka Star PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. “Te Oranga Moti Iwi.” FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1901.

In this issue we publish the first of a series of articles on the fruit industry, specially written for the Motueka Star by the Government Pomologist, Mr J. C. Blackmore. The articles will be continued from week to week and we feel sure they will prove most instinctive to the fruitgrowers in this neighborhood. The second contributed article of Mr W. J. Moffatt's on L«tnd Tenures will appear in our next issue. At the annual meeting of the First Contingent Association, held at Wellington last Monday, it ,vas decided to send a letter of sympathy to Trooper Douglas (well known in Motueka) who met with an accident, and is still in the Wellington Hospital. The Domain Board held its monthly meeting on Tuesday evening. The only business transacted was the passing of accounts. Tenders for the ercetion of a second ary class room for the Motueka District .High School must be sent in to Mr .Stead Ellis, the Board's architect, not later than one o'clock on the 26th (to morrow)

At the last meeting of'the- Borough Council,. Mr O. J. Boyce repotted the £5 voted for bird's eggs was-almost ex-only.-a-few- shillings remaining. The rising generation have evidently been making birds-nesting a profitable pasting ~ be;,idea helping to keep down the thrushes and blackbirds which are such a source =of trouble and loss to the orckardists in the borough. Upon making enquiries of some of the leading sheep farmei-s in this district, we find that the increase of lambs this season has been very satisfactory, despite the fact that the conditions of the weather have not been favorable to the dam or its offspring. Mr Stuart Wratt,. of The Grange, who grazes Jj|j?ut 1000 crossbred sheep, estimates increase at 90 per cent, about ten per eent having died through the wet and cold weather. Mr J. Cornwall McGaveston,. of Pokororo, reports a 70 per cent increase, his flock having also suffered through the weather. Just before the Council meeting closed on Tuesday evening Cr Rankin referred to the small birds nuisance, and the enormous amount of damage done to the fruit*.irees by the birds. He thought they ought to make an early start "" year and adopt some means of posoning systematically. It was subsequently agreed that the Riwaka B.oad Board and the Waimea County Council should be asked to cooperate with the Council and arrange for a universal day of poisoning. The member ior Here-aud-There fixes his eagle eye on a ten-pound rise to a badly paid official, and chokes with indignation. He will resist that ten pounds being spent with his last breath—but lie will vote for fooling away a quarter of a million of money to maintain that popular fetish, the cooperative labor movement ; he strains at a miserable gnat —and swallows a whole drove of camels.—Wairurapa T>aily Times. The Hist of deaths amongst members of the New Zealand Contingents enrolled for. South Africa shows that disease was far more deadly than tbe bullets of the Boers. There were fifty-two deaths from enteric, while only thirty men were killed in action, and seven others died of wounds. There weie six deaths from pneumonia, four from dysentry, and others in minor numbers