Second Edition.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 21, 16 May 1914, Page 6

Second Edition.

At the London wool sale the prices reached the highest level of the series.—P.A. In .the House of Commons, on the second reading, the Scottish Home Rule Bill was talked out, states a London cablegram. In the golf ladies' championship (states a London cablegram), Miss Leitch defeated Miss Ravenscroft, two up and one to play. The death of the Hon., F. D. Monk, sx-Muiistor of Public Works in the Borden Cabinet, is reported per cablegram from Montreal. Dunedin's debt is £680,300, spread ovet a population of 67,000, giving an indebtedness of * £lO os per head, while that of . Chiistchurch. works out at £3 2s 6d, Auckland at £lO 13s 7d, and Wellington at £l6 15s. The dairying industry has been making great progress in the Ashburton district, and a lot has been done to improve the' milking strains of the herds; One dairyman, by heavy culling, reduced his number of cows by 20, and got a bigger cheque for his milk than he did before culling (the Christchurch Press states), the improvement effected in the quality of his herd resulting in a much higher average test for the milk.

The Wellington correspondent of the Otago Daily Tiuies says: The Land Values League, which has been left a sum of money for its propaganda by the late Mr. Joseph Eels, intends to make an increased effort in regard to popularising the single tax. It is suggested that the Liberator, the organ of „ the party, should be made a weekly,instead of a monthly paper. The matter will, however, be left, in abeyance till the return of Mr George Fowlds to New Zealand in August.

The theory that insomnia may be caused by sleeping on top of a subterranean watetf channel" is 1 firmly held by,Mi- W. Piatt, water diviner. Talliiug'tK) a Dannevirke Evening News representative,; Mr'. Piatt said that he tjiouglit his sensitiveness to , water was unconsciously shared by a num'ier of people. He could not sleep in a bed ■ -t&iafcr-m&i placed directly above a flow of water, and he had found thar this was the ca'use of a number of peoplo(suffering from.insomnia. He had tola,these people.to move their/beds to : ri different place, .and they had i|tnmediaieiy' quite, well.