THE Shannon News TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1921.

Shannon News, 29 November 1921, Page 2

THE Shannon News TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1921.

I Miss Dunckley has sold her stationery and fancy goods business to Mr Burns, of the West Coast, South Jsi land. Mr Bums will take over the j business on January 1. Miss M. Fox. of Kelso, Scotland, and niece of Mr G. Quarrie, Grey Street, Shannon, is among the passengers per S.S. ionic, and is expected to arrive in Shannon to-night, where she will be making her home for some time. -Sheep farmers are taking advantage of the fine weather and shearng operations are now in lull swing in and around Shannon. “T!ompJaint.s about the delay that is taking place in Condon in connection with the unloading of New Zealand Jjuttor was made at Saturday’s meeting of the provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union at Marion, and on motion of Mr K. W. Dalrymple it was decided to draw the attention of the Prime Minister to the matter. It was ! stated that one ship, the Paparoa, j had 'been held up for six weeks. J

American can teach us much in how to handle fruit. For several seasons the experiment of importing grapes from Sydney and Adelaide was tried, with disastrous results. By the Tahiti, which arrived from San Francisco on Monday, came to hand a farily large

j shipment of Californian grapes, neatly ! packed . with granulated cork, in ' handy-sized and well-made little casks and cases, containing 3511) each. The grapes were brought over in cold | store, ami arrived in good condition. | They are realising from 2s to 2s t-ia . per ■ lb wholesale, i

Mr Swindlehurst, who lately underwent. an operation in Nurse Linton’s hospital, Palmerston North, is spending a few weeks in Napier.

It is the intention of the Catholic Church trustees to eventually have all their buildings erected in Stafford Street on their 4J-acre section.

On Sunday aiternoon a horse on Mr Hugo Easton's farm, Bueaioy, was staitled hy some dogs. Galloping through a gateway it came in contact with two of Mr Easton’s children, both about two years old. The children were trampled beneath the animal’s feet, and for a few minutes it seemed as though they both must be killed. Fortunately one child rolled clear, but the other was less fortunate, having her leg dislocated ancl badly cut. The little sufferer was brought to Dr. Evans, who found it necessary to put ten stitches in the injured limb. The little one is still receiving medical attention, but is doing as well as can be expected.

Mr N. CJapham, the local letter-car-rier, had a nasty fall yesterday that may have proved serious. He was riding his-bicycle down the hill in Margaret Street when the front fork broke. When .falling, Mr Clapliain’s head struck the rail of the bridge, and he was stunned for a few moments, but no serious injury resulted.

Replying to Mr McCombs \n the House of Representatives, the Hon. E. P. Lee said he would look into the alleged practice of tobacconists charging the newly-imposed duty on tobacco on which the’ duty had not been paid. He, however, thought the decision of the Supreme Court regarding the replacement value might prevent anything being done to check the practice. /

“There can he: no doubt that through failure to cultivate the land sufficiently before using artificial fertilisers, many farmers lost half the benefit they might otherwise derive from manuring,,” said Mr F. W. Greenwood, Government agricultural instructor. I by no means' deprecate the value of fertilisers, hut I do wish to emphasise the great need of thorough cultivation as a supplement to the application of fertilisers.”

A visitor who recently toured New Zealand returned home with a story which he tells with gusto in America. The manager of an Otago sheep station owned by a financial company in London sent a cable to his principals one spring: “Snowing heavily, lambing proceeding.” He received this answer: “Stop lambing at once.” Mr J. Page, of Koputaroa Road, has an area of crimson clover on liis farm this season, which presents a fine sight just now. The growth is particularly strong, with an abundance of feed, and it is evident that the plant is well suited to this district. Crimson clover is extensively grown in the southern districts of the South Island, where a succession of cuts are made each season, and produces the best • class of feed, whether green or in the form of hay.

The two herds of Sambur deer that have been liberated near Mt. Taravvera and Taneatua, Ruatoki, are doing well (says the Taranaki Herald). Two or three of the original stags, which were well grown when liberated, have been carrying massive antlers. Those deer were all captured in the flax swamps of the Himitangi, Foxton district, by the department’s ranger, where they were very numerous. In a lew years’ time they will provide good sport and venison for deer-stalkers.

Island life does not appeal to the crew of H.M.S. Veronica, which arrived at Auckland from the Pacific on Monday,, and if a poll were taken on tiie vessel the men would vote unanimously for civilisation (says the Herald). Owing to her small size, the Veronica has not a great amount of room for storing provisions, conse(piently during most of the nine weeks she was away from Auckland the officers and crew have lived on bullybeef, tinned salmon and fruit as their staple diet, while drinking water was issued in rations.

On a recent Saturday a Sydney catering firm had on its hands thousands of pies and scones, which, in the ordinary way, would have gone to Rosehill and Kensington racecourses but for (lie fact that both meetings were postponed. The manager of the firm, despite the loss, was determined the food should not be wasted and set to work to find a benevolent organisation that would do the distribution of this food, which lie undertook to deliver free to any centre desired. He did not think for a moment tlia.t there would

he any difficulty in finding customers on these lines when so much distress is reported. But to his amazement (says the Sydney Sun) three institutions which ho rang up said that provision had already been made for Saturday, but that they could use the pies and scones on Monday. All that morning had gone when the manager at last found a means of distributing the food, n Catholic relief society taking one half-end the minister of an Anglican church undertaking to deal with the rest.

The wholesale and retail prices of butter were increased in Palmerston North last week by twopence per lb. The steamer Kennedy, which had been stranded at Fox ton for several days, was floated oft on Saturday last.

Thirty-one properties have, been placed under offer as demonstration farm in North Taranaki. Only one is

required. The Minister of Education states that the question of whether the 10 per cent reduction in the salaries of public, servants shall~apply to school teachers, has not yet .been decided by Cabinet.

“We .are getting rather into the habit of thinking- that the tenant of a house is the owner of it, you know,” remarked Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., when hearing a tenement case yesterday. Hard words break no bones. Perhaps not. But they can break the spirit and quench enthusiasm. Is not the materialism of this saying typical of the gross nature of proverb makers. As if physical injury were all that counted. Any one can live without a leg. Bpt life would be intolerable without belief in something and trust in somebody. A man was fined 27s at Wellington on Tuesday for smoking a cigarette on the platform of a tram-car.

The foetid atmosphere of some country schools was the subjec tof comment by the Chief Inspector at ihe Education Board meeting at the Edu cation Board meeting last evening. I believe that in every school on the Main Trunk that I have visited I havebroken the ventilation cords—the windows have all been shut so tightly. I have never seen such a lot of people in my life. They are afraid of a gust of fresh air.”

The Government lias accepted the following tenders for pipes for the Mangahao electric power scheme: Section .9, Dunedin Engineering and Steel Company, £40,000; section 10, the some company, £39,800; section 51, Boving Company, Wellington, £13(000. The prices are only approximate, as some details have yet to be agreed upon.

In the North Island butter prices; have been kept on a higher level than, in Cliristchurch, where the public have' benefited by fierce competition between the factories (states a Press Association telegram from Christchurch). An announcement made yesterday indicates that the price-cutting will not continue. . Various factories supplying the city trade have advanced their prices from Is s|d to Is 8d per lb, and the retail prices have been advanced from Is 8d to Is lOd.

Referring to the recent visit of the Springboks, a visitor to Woodville from South Africa said the Africans, were confident of winning everything,, and were very surprised at beingbeaten at all. He also said that Africa,, with' her mineral resources, is in a good position to stand a bad period, and is rapidly recovering from the slump.

Michael Janies Mulvaney, aged 29, holder of the Distinguished Conduct Medal and the Military Medal, was drowned on Saturday afternoon when coming down the Mikinui Gorge from his farm in the upper reaches. The horse he was riding was also drowned. The body was found yesterday near the scene of the fatality.

Lord. Lascelles is a popular personage in Britain to-day as Princess Mary’s betrothed, but not so much popularity ever attached to the uncle who left him his millions five years ago. The late and last Marquis of Clanricarde was an extraordinary old man. To the end of his life—he died at the age of 84—lie dressed in clothes in fashion of the Prince Consort’s days. He very seldom attended the. debates in the House of Lords, and' when he did try to get in, the door- ’ keepers usually mistook him for somev eccentric and refused to let hinr through. In Ireland, though the Marquis was well enough—or badly enough—known. The Irish Nationalists for 40 years or more always counted him as “the worst example of the worst type of Irish landlord.” He fought every land law'passed, regardless of expense, and had his lawyers seek out every way to dodge and evade them. In fact, he seems for half a century to have been the principal provider of business for the Law Courts in Galway with his streams of writs and ejectment orders. The first Land Act he contested was that of 1870, ifiid he fought those of 1886* 1903, 1907, and 1909 with, if anything, increased determination. The Government offered him exceptional terms to sell out, but he was as deaf to blandishments as to threats, and In the

end a compulsory purchasing clause

was passed by Parliament mainly with the object of getting rid of the Clanricarde bug-a-boo. In July, 1915, the State purchased the Marquis's estates for £228,211.