NEWS ITEMS.

Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 38, 20 December 1901, Page 4

NEWS ITEMS.

A military fair arranged by the Thames Navals resulted ih a profit of £220-

So far t(iis year riot a single bankruptcy has occurred in Westland. Some extra-ordinary prices were obtained at a sale of shorthorn bull calves owned, by Messrs Duthie and Marr, Upperhill, Aberdeenshire. A calf sold at the record figure of 650 guineas. The 'average price reached the extraordinary figure of £157 11s. There are 57 prohibited persons in Wangamr. A Canterbury farmer says that owing to the depression in the frozen meat market, and the low price of produce, land there w.ll not bring within £2 an acie of the high price of a year ago.

A correspondent' in the Auckland News states that Taranaki settlers, who have sold out to southern farmers at big prices, are moving to Waikato in numbers, and in nearly every case they say the land they are buying is quite as good as what they sold at double the amount per acre. There is no doubt that dairying should be carried oh in the Waikato under conditions unequalled in the colony. “ Why don’t you show us why Jones left home ?” shouted a barracker on the "Vieotrian cricket ground when Jones, the Englishman, was very carefully handling some dangerous balls. With the next stroke Jones sent the ball over the fence for five, the crowd cheered, and the barracker in turn got laughed at.

Some time since the Bulletin laid down the following as the financial axioms of the Australian Governments : “To pay y<>ur way, Borrow. To pay your interest. Borrow. To pay off your borrowing, Borrow again. When you are in doubt, Borrow. When you can’t borrow. Owe.”—Auckland Herald.

Weasels are playing havoc among chickens in Oamnru. One resident has lost nearly all this season’s birds from this ev.l.

A Clyde (Dun stah) poultry breeder has successfully raised from one sitting of twenty-three eggs (under a Leghorn lien) the same number of chickens.

The Makuri branch of the Farmers’ Union has decided to give one shilling per member t >wards helping the unfortunate Cheviot settlers.

Wl i'e Mr J. Flannagan was travelling io the Woodville races in a hoise box with his racer Purumuka, as the train was passing thx-ough one of the tun e’s in the Gorge the door of the box flew open and so star-tied the horse that it almost jumped out on to the line. While the animal was plunging about he crushed Mr Flannagan against the partition, and severely injured him about the chest atrd abdomen.

The Premier, speaking at Cheviot,

said, in reply to the charges made against him by Mr Meredith. M.PLR. for Ashley, that it would have been better for himself (Mr Seddon) and his family had he devoted his time and abil ties to other objects than politics. That this is true, needs no proof, as it is certain, judging by' the masterly manner in which the Premier conducted the colony’s defence against the action of the Mid. 7 and Railway Company, that had he devoted the same ah 1 ty and talent to a study of law he would, as the Hon. Mr Blake, the pres ; dent of the Arbitration Court, stated, have been, one of the foremost jurists in the British Empire. A Taranaki settler who milks 100 cows states that last season (ohly eight months) he/sold off his 400-aere farm butter-fat to the value of £9OO, and pigs and calves brought him in £3OO add itional. At a recent largely attended tangi,

held in Taranaki, there were threehundred natives present, but there was 110 drunkenness. A -brother of Te Whiti expressed the opinion that the tinie had arrived when there should be no more beer consumed at tangis. Other chiefs concurred, and promised to use their influence in the same direction.

111 consequence of the anticipated short crop of ryegrass, there has been a sharp rise in price, the best heavy dressed samples commanding 3s per bushel. Not. only are the Otago and Canterbury buyers purchasing here (says a Southland,correspondent), but Hawkes Bay merchants are endeavouring to repurchase the Poverty Bay shipment recently sold to Southland dealers.

How is this for a fish yarn ? Says the Wairarapa Leader : —“ During the last fortnight, according to the collective accounts of anglers, 3000 trout and 5000 eels were taken from the Mangotariere ; in consequence the river level dropped some inches, and farmers are already complaining, as they think,, in view of the pervading drought, that if piscatorial enthusiasts continue their fish-catching, the river will dry up.” Shearing is well advanced in Woodville district. Most of the settlers find the clip the best they have ever had in the bush district.

It is stated that the large American woollen mills have instructed all their buyers not to purchase and wool that have been dipped in which either sulpher or lime formed a constituent part.

The strawberry season in Birkenhead and Northeote, Auckland, has been a very poor one so far. The cause of this has been the prevailing dry weather with cold cutting winds, and low temperature at night. The demand far exceeds the supply. Strawberries sent to the Wellington market have fetched up to 2s 6d per quart box. The Wellington correspondent of the Dunedin Star writes :—Rumours are cunent that the heads of departments have been instructed to run the pruning knife through the Civil Serviceand to get rid of a number of temporary clerks and extra messengers who for some time past have been cumbering the administrative ground. It is also stated that the knife will cut deep, as several of the departments are grievously overloaded. With the growth and spread of the dairy industry (says the Haweia Star), the seal city of suitable men as milkers is becoming more evident every year. It is now a matter of the greatest difficulty to obtain a ssistance, and when the farmer and his boys—or perhaps the farmei and his wife—have a large herd to milk night and morning, the process becomes more than monotonous. The Patea Press reports having interviewed Mr Gray, the well-known butter agent on the question, and Mr Gray avers that there would be no difficulty in obtaining any number of the right class of men at current wages from the rural districts’of England, many of whom would jump at the chance.

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