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Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 26, 8 November 1901, Page 4

Tiie New Zealand agents of a Sydney firm have been instructed to purchase all the suitable poultry offering hi this colony, provided it can he sliipvjied by the Otarama to S mth Africa so as to catch the Christmas markets. If the steamer does call at the Cape the Agricultural Department will send ;»§ large shipment of eggs to South Africa by her. Parliamentary reporter of the Dunedin Star says that Mr Seddon, who has been an inveterate smoker for years, has entirely abandoned the weed. As an indication of the great activity in the flax trade apparent throughout, the Manawatu and Foxton districts, the Manawatu-Standard says that fully i 05 bales of dressed fibre were shipped from Kereru this week. Reassuring rep irts are to hand from all paits of the district as to the increased energy now devoted t > the industry. When\cows have free access ti salt a tall times they will give more milk, which a better flavour and 1 eep sweet, longer than when they do not get any at all or receive it only at intervals. For the first time in the annals of any Parliament in the world, we believe, the principle of the forty e : ght hours a week—the eight hours principle, in short—-Jias been placed on the statute book.- -JST. Z. Times. - The prophecy was made by Mr F. IT. Haselden, in a speech at Hunterv'lle the other day, that the Farmer’s Union would become one of the biggest and best things the country had ever seen. It would go. far to do away with party politics, and do good for the G >vevnment of the country. Subscription.to thsJS'IOTUEKA STAR': —Three Shillings and Sixpence a Quarter , which may begin at any tiptc^.