THE PATEA ELECTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 229, 9 October 1901, Page 2

THE PATEA ELECTION.

FEB PBKM ASSOCIATION. Wawaspi, Oofcjbert. The hearing of the Patee election petition case was continued to-day. The evideaoe was conoludtd, and aftier the Court bad heard addresnei of ooab* sel, judgment was reserved, and is eacpected to be given to-morrow.

The Federal Budget was delivamd at Melbourne lait night. Profesw Woodward has disosvered thj remains of horned hor«ej near Marathon. Out of the six pluses whew similar remuns have bean excavated three are in G re toe and a fourth at Samoa in the Greek Archipelago. Two famona materiological aerawvto* of the Bsrlin Observatory raontlj accomplished a reoord aacent, when they attained a registered height of 6i miles; ' The maximum height reaohed U aft known, as they both funtei owing to the nrifiei atmotphere, the laat observed temperature being 40 degwig of frost. Many of the Taranaki settlers at* going in for dehorning their cattle this season, while the majority of the dairy farmers in some of the districts hat* got all their dairy herds rat jj the prooeet with very eatWeotoiy I suits. 1 - Assuming that every onr-tvw 1 will, as he should, inaist upon a nasoft* « nble quantity and.satisfactory qualito in the product of every cow ha kesuu . the next point of importance is 'ency in milking. ladeed, Ipfa» rhis habit, or attribute of the oow.ftnt ; of all in the ease of the family earn, or wherever only two or three oow« an kept. A Urge flow of milk when to cow is fresh is very deceptive, «nd often leads to carrying an animal which nail, in the oouree of ooe year is a aoume of - loss. There fs no plan so B'fi as the • daily record of weight of milk prodmw*; £ This takes no appreciable time or ' labour, but it results io showing * tely what the cow gives io return ' for the time she is fed, and how evenly the distributes the produet i through the year. The u holding out in mlk is one of tbe motMb virtues of the Jenny cow, anA » characteristic of the breed. Thia ooe point alone is enough to make the Jersey oow espeoially desirable for the family cow; also for the produoer of ?s _> Ba ' e ' desires a permanent dairy with a uniform supply, rich fe puaUty.—Sural #«u> Yorker, A clergyman is making mv»im ascents in London, with a view to aso«rf*in the eooroes of loodon fof. Asked as to fcow miny fowl* could be P' ou acre of ground, Mr Hyde -ays it is possible to keep 200, but one huni-ed oould be kept without "v-rorowd ng. Root crops should be

g-owu 08 rauoh as possible, bicatine srass could b» bought cheaply. At Momohaki they kept the foris at a cosfc of 2a per head per annum. From 100* fowls tbey should get £26 a war profit. v ' An attempt is heiu? made in Borland to teach the Fret eh languagT* rather to give ifs correct accent, by ponograph. "* > At *>h6 Tu'rerouloeis Conference now hp \ n S in Jjindon, Dr. Kadi, the eminent Geroaun specia'ist, in th» rourß4 of an a idreks, stated tbatipufcoa, from a consumptive pattern wu chief source of infection Oases where bovine tuberculoma was transmitted to human boiogs through the aU* m«n a w, <ft extremely rare. Btafiattes taken a» bis saoatvium showed that with promising beginning* ! ,[" ( ,T ere P"«P"W of enriat «T J*" treated, b«t the of Mn&toria would never render preventative mrasom i superfluous. Dr. Kooh said elaborate precautions against tuberculosis in milk, meat, and butter were unreoei'A sary. Lord Lister said if Dr. KoA'* 8 artling statement was oorrect the prohlwu wus simplified. Still ha *•- gftwed it as not proved that hovio* tuberculosis was uneommuoirabla to. «nan. It would be unwm »i relac precau ions. Foreign experts nw weighty reasons against Dr. Koch* cone u-ions. | Q'lite <v Huge miss of l^tntfanm US*?* 1 , ' bout a i«- buiog i wuUJ out • f th« grouod in the H«d of . the G e-nstone Oeek (siys the Grey, mruth f-tur) to the of flfiMiue Fuga-ty and Sturloek. It is fakin* -j some days tj shift this iamenai blek "1 which, o*ing to its »ki and nlidittL J ought to pottm a high wad^wl^-yl