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Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 129, 7 November 1902, Page 5

It is stated that a New Zealander, Mr MeGloin, of Christchurch, has placed before the War Office a new gun which has so impressed the authorities that they have undertaken to give it a full trial. The Gisborne Times says :—“A man' who has been wandering about Gisborne lately, and who has been committed to the Auckland Lunatic Asylum, has a pathetic history. Not long he came into -a good sum of money,

running into tour figures. He fell in '-**4uve v with a youngdady, who remained true to him whilst his money lasted, and then left him. This preyed on his mind a good deal, and to this in a great measure was to be attributed his prefLsgsat/sad position.” T Government Poultry Expert has received a letter from Sydney from which we make the following extract : —“A brisk trade is being dofie between here and South Australia in >ejggs. Owing to the high prices of meat and vegetables here the demand for eggs has been enormous. To give you an idea I may state that last season there were between 500,000 and 600,000 eggs stored in the Government cool stores here, but this year, owing to the high prices obtainable, only about 40,000 dozen have been stored. Our bakers and biscuit manufacturers haye rt,o look elsewhere for their supplies, and to the latter industry we usually look to dispose of our surplus stocks under ordinary circumstances. Before the new tariff came into operation last year we imported from China and Japan 678,231 dozen, valued at L23,560, and from the other Australian States 612,698 dozen, valued at L21,i 687. Of this quantity South Australia m supplied us with 587,933 dozen, valued at L 20,776. This year to date we have - imported from S >uth Australia alone eggs to the value of L 23,879.”

Sir Hector Macdonald has now bea paid aide de camp to the King “ World. ’) He was appointed .\ a mp to the late of his services in the Souhas hitherto been on the unHis appointment i/to command is not to affect ( |is position list of^A.D.C.’s. I ' Consumptioff ! v&^y i ch is the most danger--1 ous and fatal disease, has as its first indiI cation a persistent cough, and if properly ! treated as soon as this cough appears is 1 easily cured. Chamberlain’s Cough ReI medy has proven wonderfully successful, I and gained its wide-reputation and extenlsive sale by its success in curing the disleases which canse coughing. It always (cures and cures quickly.. A Manoy selis it.

Dr Chappie, a candidate for the Newtown seat, Wellington, made reference on Wednesday night to the tendency in the 'colonies to buy foreign manufactures. He pointed out that in New Zealand the people would buy meat extract made from old «nares in Uruguay an preference to the local article. he was in Uruguay the proud boast was made that 25,000 old mares had passed through the meat extract works during the previous year, and no doubt they in New Zealand had relished them. (Laughter) At the same time there was a local company which turned out some of the finest beef extract made in any part of the world, He was imbued with a desire for the progress of this young x counby. It was a gross injustice to our people to send outside the colony for things which could be produced so much better within it.

“Hooliganism” is much complained of in Wellington. Residents are occasionally bustled by larrikins, in gangs of fifteen to twenty, who use foul language and hurl stones at their victims.

In the course of a speech at Cork Mr Michael Davitt condemned the Irish Agricultural Department for naming varieties of potatoes after Lord Roberts Lord Kitchener, and other military leaders’.

A well-known preacher in the Irish Church is justly famed for his eloquence, particularly if he is making an appeal on behalf of any charitable object. Recently two country tradesmen went to hear this eloquent preacher, and on their way home were comparing notes. “Man, Bradley?’ said one, that was a grand discoorse entoirely. Oi cudn’t help givin’ half a crown at the collection.” Bradlev: “Well yez see, Oihad the advantage ave ye this toime, fur Oi’ve herd him afore. Whin Oi wus puttin’ on me Sunday clothes, shure Oi left iverything out ave me pocket, but wan sixpence. Man, he has a powerful way wid him altogether.”

Ifc is rumoured that the attempts that were made in Christchurch some time ago to bring about a‘ coalition the Labour Part£ and the Prohibition Party are beu|g revived with a good prospect of success, and that the parties will issue a joint ticket at the approaching election. . ~ One horse out of those sent to South Africa from New Zealand with our contingents is being brought back. The animal is one that Lieutenant R. Collins had with him when he left in Maich, 1900, and he was riding it when he was wounded at Buffleshoek. Colonel Porter subsequently obtained it. and after riding it throughout his stay in South Africa he took it with him to England for the coronation. Having come from Great Britain, and being from disease, it will be readmitted to Now Zealand.

A recent writer (according to the ‘Royal Magazine’) estimated that <£loo,ooo is spent each Guy Fawkes Hay on fireworks.