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Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 114, 16 September 1902, Page 4

Provision will be m ide on the Supplementary Estimates for increasing the quantity of free ammunition, supplied to volunteers. The electoral roll at the coming election, says the Acting-Premier, will be the most complete we have ever had in the jjcolony. If the Minister for Justice is in the Government next session he will introduce a Bill providing that ciintnon jurors in civil cases shall l>e paid more that at present. M. F. Houssay has recently stated to the French Academy of Sciences that be finds that two hens fed on grain laid 194 eggs between them in a given time, while two similar bens, in the same time, when fed on raw flesh, laid 297 eggs. Not only did the number of eggs increase, but likewise their weight. Poultry raising has become very popular in Hastings since the formation of an association there. One of the most curious details of the awful disaster in the West Indies (-iv- the Animal-’ Friend) is the prevision of it which all the animals in tiie island seem to have had. Cattle, we are told, became so uneasy that they could hardly be managed, dogs howled continually and showed every symptom of fear, and snakes left the vicinity of the volcano, where they abounded, and even the birds ceased to sing, and left the trt.es on the mountain side. This was some weeks before the outbreak. Man alone seems to have felt no premo uition of the coming death. The crops over South Canterbury are now showing well above the ground, and the genial weather that has prevailed of late has promoted a healthr growth. The area under wheat and oats this year is (says t.:e Press) extensive, and, given a good season, a bountiful harvest will be the result..

The Waimate (Taranaki) Witness states that a farm of 100 acres at Okaiawa recently realised L 22 an acre. In the interior of the extinct crater Aso San, about 30 miles from the city of Kumamoto in Japan, 20,000 people live and prosper. The vertical wall of the crater is 800 ft high. The inhabitants rarely make a journey into the outer world, but form almost a little nation by themselves. It is affirmed that no nation is increasing so rapidly in height and weight as the British. In 50 years theaverage height has risen from sft 7|iu to sft B|in. An extiaordinary disaster occurred a week last Sunday near Charleville, Queensland, to a mob of sheep belonging to Mr J. C. Peyton. They were being taken to water after long abstinence, and directly they smelt it they made a frantic rush into the waterhole. The sides of the waterhole were very steep, and 500 of the sheep were drowned. A curious test, tor deafness has been brought before the Paris Academy of Medicine by Dr Bonnier. On applying a tuning fork to the knee or other pait of the bony structure, nothing is heard by the sound ear, but the note is audible to an ear in which disease has begun.

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PUPONGA COAL MINE. On Saturday, 30th August, the workmen at Puponga Coal Mine, numbering twenty1, mr altogether were, summoned toge her bv Mr Joseph Taylor before commencing work, and asked to read the following notice posted in the mine office window, temporarily suspending operations, as a necessary preliminary to certain new developments -.-Notice : To the Employees at Puponga Coal Mine, Sydney, G. Hayward. Attorney and Managing Director tor ttie Puponga Coal and Gold Mining Company, iNevv Zealand, Limited, has instructed me to suspend for tile tim 1 being,, all works in connection with the Puponga Coal Mine except such as are absolutely neoessary, in view of the Company’s determination to forthwith introduce a new and larger scheme 01 working ; and I hereby inform the Employees that their services will not be required alter this day the 30th August 1902. J. 1 aylor. After reading ttiis notice to tlie men in the office. . JMr Taylor offered a few general explanations with which all were perfectly satisfied. He explained that the present movement did not necessarily imply that the men would not be again employed at Puponga ; but that the system ot day wage work vould probably be changed to a contract 3 /stem ; and some shore period of cessation

w >uld be necessary in order to call lor t aiders, and take other steps required by a 1 scheme ol working than had been uossfole hitherto. One of the principal ehauges would be the appointment ol a new le* T al mine manager, and he bespoke ior his successor in that office the t-msideration and willing service as mid been accorded to him. After leaving the - lice, the employees assembled outside a id deputed Mr J. Gilmer to express their u uinimous appreciation of Mr Taylor, ~oth as a manager and a man ; and Mr Taylor briefly responded, thanking the men for their expression of goodwill, and hoping he would never have any more ditliculty in dealing with men than he had had with” them. The following address has drawn up and signed by the whole of the workmen :—"Address to Mr 1 oseph Taylor 30th August 1902. We the undersigned workmen at Puponga Goal Mine desire to take advantage of the occasion of your transference from the position of legal Mine manager, in order to express our appreciation of your splendid achievements at Puponga. We wish 10 congratulate you on your magnificent discoveries, which have given to the colony practically a new coaltield ; and upon the engineering skill with which you have conducted the development operations to the present, issuing, as they have, in the icrmation of a powenul company, lhe practical work you have done, and the reasonableness with which you as Attorney ana Manager have treated your2ren, \vu.v out e ther favour or friction, are of tnemselves sufficient testimony as to your general character, fitness* and qml.fic - tions as a mining engineer ; and we need almost to apologise for adding this voluntary and sincere expression of our feelings, and in wishing you every success in future.” _____

AUCKLAND MARKETS: (Auckland Weekly News) Field Produce.—Potatoes : Local L 4 to £4: ton, Southern L 6, seed kinds L 4 to L 6; new, round l|d lb, new kidneys lid to 2d lb. Kumaras 10s cwt. Onions local seed Id to lb, American lid lb, Southern gd to Id lb. M aize 4s bushel, oats 3s 6d, wheat, fowl, 4s 6d, chaff' L 5 5s to L 5 10s ton. Vegetables: Cabbages 6d to Is 6d dozen, Is to 4s sack, cauliflowers Is 6d to 6s dozen. Dairy Produce —Batter in prints or rolls first quality lOd to Is, separator 10|d to Is, pastry 9d to lOd, farmers’ keg firsts 9d to lOd, seconds 9d, milled, in hulk Is, factory rolls, Taranaki Is 2d, local factory Is. Eggs fresh 9d to 9|d dozen. Cheese farmer.-.’ 41d lb, fa tory sid, loaf 6d to 6id. Bacon farmers’ 6.|d to lb, factory 7id lb, hams farmers’ 7|d to 8d lb, factory 8d to Bid.

Fiuit (quotations for standard cases and boxes) —Apples local dessert, 6s to 7s case, cooking 6s t.o 7d, II >bart 7s to 9s, Southern 6s to 7s. Tomatoes, hothouse 6d lb, Cape gooseberries 3id to 4d, passion frmt 10s to 14s case, walnuts 7d lb, peanuts 2d to 2gd, bananas 2s to 3s bunch, I|d lb, pines 12s crate, eocoanuts 7s 6d to 9s sack.

Poultiy —Hens Is 8d to 2s Id each, table roosters 2s 3d to 2s 9d, ducks 2s 3d to 2s 9d, geese 2s 6d to 4d, ducklings 6d to 7d, turkeys, gobblers, 7s to 9d, hens 3s to Bs.

At latest accounts fowls were selling at 10s ner pair at Capetown, and 1 eggs at from 2s 6d to 3s per dozen. The magnificent bronze turkey exhibited at the Palmerston North Show by Mr L. Holden, of Fielding, was bred by Mi Duncan, of Otairi, from stock imported by that gentleman iiom America It is stated that when fat the bird weighs between forty and f fty pounds. THIS IS THE SEASON when death stalks through the land in the form of pneumonia. The surest defense against this disease is Cnamberlain s Cough Remedy It always cures and cures quicklv. A. Manoy sejls it. The Plague has come to light again To give us all a scare ; Death stares us in the face, that's plain, Let every one take care. Attend to every ailment, that You may have to endure. Drive off your cou. h and put on fat W T.T'nn OS GREA T PEPPER 1 MINT CURE..