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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 186, 2 June 1903, Page 3

The Christchurch Meat Company has decided to send a shipment of 14,000 carcases of lambs and between 3000 and 4000 carcases of mutton direct to Cardiff. The Tennessee Legislature recently passed a Bill to prohibit kissing amori" unmarried persons between the ages of sixteen and forty-five. The Bill was introduced -by Representative Barnes, of Lauderdale County. Before it was passed it was so amended as to apply only to Mi Barnes. Now the author is trying to get the Governor to veto it* There are in the United States today 5,427,767 bachelors and 3,224.494 spinsters. In the West there are ten available males for every maiden, and even in the northern and eastern States there are actually more bachelors than spinsters 20 years old and upward. No State in the Union has as many maidens as single men. Co-operation is not always a success, as the shareholders of the Auckland Farmers' Co-operative Society have lately discovered. The share list capital of the Society consisted of 1174 holders at £l, equal to .£1174, of whom 269 still owed £238 12s, leaving only £.935 -8s paid. The company has gone into liquidation. A co-operative bakery is likely to be established in Wanganui. Turnips are fetching boom prices in the Taieri, as much as <£B a ton being given for them. The turnip crops in various parts have turned out better than was expected. The old colonial pioneer, Captain Jackson Barry, is now in Auckland. He has now been 75 years in the colonies: He stood in Queen street when it was a waste of tea tree. Captain Barry is about to proceed to Rotorua, having been ill lately. A man against whom a prohibition order was sought in Eketahuna failed to put in an appearance. The constable stated that the man consented to an order against him for six months ''Never mind," said the magistrate^ •he can consent to one six months I will consent to the other." .u Mr u Benn <:«, of Tinw'ald, recently VJ re ? h , ed a P a adock G f oats belonging to *, r i° n u B s own > of Wakanui, which fielded the handsome return of 109 bushels to the acre. . For Influenza and Cold in the Head take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is--6d and 2s 6d. For Bronchial Cough, take. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and 2s 6d everywhere. The laying hen (says Farm, Garden and Poultry) is hard to over-fatten. *** Subscription to MOTUEKA STAR Three Shillings and Sixpence a Ouarier. which max beqin any time