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Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 35, 10 December 1901, Page 5

We go away from home to hear news. A Ngatimoti corresponbent sends us the following :—lt is : persistently rumoured here that your local blacksmiths are being trodden under the feet of horses (No, I mean under the foot of the Farmer's Union). Some few of that body entertain an i<lea that they are being chiseled, and to-day I hear that an information was laid against one blacksmith for steeling some picks, while the other is said to have filed this morning. The paltry sum of £9, allowed by the Marine Department for lighting the channel to the Riwaka wharf, is altogether unsufficient for the purposes for which it was granted. The question was referred to at the last meeting of the Riwaka Road Board by the chairman (Mr A. Drummond) and others. If the local trade is to be | encouraged we would advise the Board >ta ask for a further grant, and plentv of reasons can be adduced to back up the request. No doubt Mr R. MeKLenzie, M.H.R', if written to on the subject, would be only too pleased to support the application. A laundryman of Paris has discovered a method of cleansing fine linen and other fragile textures without using soap or other chemicals. Instead of these he used "boiled potatoes, which he rubs into the goods and then rinses out. It is saidithat this method will make soiled linen v silk, 01 cotton much whiter and purer than washing in the ordinary.- way.,