The Daily News SATURDAY, AUGUST 11.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8179, 11 August 1906, Page 2

The Daily News SATURDAY, AUGUST 11.

The Taranaki hockey touring team returned on Friday from the southern

Mr Walter Bewley notifies that until further notice, he will receive applications for shares iu the Taranaki Petroleum Company, | The Auckland police recently pounced on bakers' delivery carts, with the result that nineteen drivers were yesterday fined 20s each for being without scales.

The Government has definitely decided to open a State coal depot at Palmerston North. A site has alroady [been obtained, but the date of opening has not yet been announced. Such is fame ! A London paper, in

its New Zealand notes, says :—" Two squadrons of the Taihape Lifeguards refused duty recently. The Bishop of Eketahuna (who is honorary chaplan of the regiment) addressed them and persuaded them to return to barraoks." Butter is selling at Christchurch at Is 4d to Is 5d per lb. The high oost of living is the subject of remark aud agitation, and it has been mooted to urge the Arbitration Court to take the matter into consideration in future wages awards. Probate of the will ot thejlate Emily Mtry King, widow, late of New Plymouth, has ]ust been granted by the Supreme Court to the executrixes named in the will—Mrs Mary Archer Whitcombe and Mrs Clara Berridge. The grant was made on the application

of Mr Hughes. When Mr E. P. Webster took over the secretaryship of the Taranaki

Agricultural Society there were less than 100 members. The Society awoke, paid a good salary to a good secretary, and progressed immensoly. Suceess begot success, and now the result of energetic and hearty efforts is shown in a roll namber of nearly 400 members. At Rahotu the Government have a vacant allotment right opposite the hotel. Strange enough, the State is paying los a week for premises which are used as a post office, and 12s Cd for a cottage for the local constable. It is estimated that £SOO spent on

buildings would prqvide alt the accommodation needed, and of a much more convenient naturo than the present.

Captain Young seemingly " has no time," for haphazard farming. In his Okato address he spoke on improvement of dairy herds by closer attention to breeding. II a man parted farming witli an ordinary herd, and in five successive years introduced five new strains to bi» cows, ho must not be surprised to fhd at the end of that tim* that he has "a blooming lot of mongrels." The popular vt. lays stress on the necessity lh.it exists for returning to the original breed at not too infrequent intervals. This advice is backed up by practical experience. A wager that should prove of interest to dairy farmers was made at Rahotu recently, when a local settler backed a pure-bred Holstcin bull, of not exceeding three years in age, against a well dcyplopod five year old Hereford bull belonging to a neighbour. All preliminaries were carefully arranged, and the animals measured and weighed, when, to the surprise of most people who knew Ihe animals, the Holstein was declared to be the winner, with a weight of 1720 lbs, nga'nst the others 1616 lbs. The Jjolstein cattle have already proved themsolyoi for good milking qualities, and this wager goes to prove that for weight proiiicing they are also very valuable.

Those who chanced to be looking from Stratford towards Mt. Ruapcliu just as the moon rose on Thursday evening witnessed a vci'y rare and beautiful sight, says the Strut f>rd " Post." In the clear light of the cloudless atmosphere as the Luna rose behind tho ranges, every poik of the extinct volcano stood out, clear-cut against a wall of clear light. Then for a moment it appeared as though the mountain was belching forth fire, and again, directly afterwards the outline was lost in the flood of soft moonlight. Such a panorama is well worth watching for on clear still evenings, when the opportunity offers. The picture presented is one from fairy land; but it is all too fleeting. The salvation of Taranaki farming, in Mr G. N, Tate's opinion, depends on a judicious use of the plough. By this means, and this means only, could we raise our farming to the high standard secured by our dairy produce. Our grass paddocks, in this very light soil, he says, will only last fir about five or six years, and must be renewed at those intervals. His advice to farmers at Okato on Thursday night was, " Keep the plough going." He knew he would be told that weather conditions were not always favourable for ploughing, but in reply he could assure his readers that New Zealand's climate was one of the farmer's best assets. Let them look, for instance, at Canada, where for months in the year the ground was frozen to a depth of four feet, and more. Better grass would mean more milk, and more money, and better pastures would be secured only by the vigorous use of the plough. An echo of the " child-slavery " controversy comes from Mr J. A. Kinsella's annual report. " A large number of those engaged in the production of milk find it difficult at present to secure a sufficient supply of reasonably cheap labor," he writes. "The fact also of our not carrying on dairying operations to any extent during the winter months makes it more difficult for the average dairy - farmer to depend ou securing at the beginning of each new milking - season a supply of experienced milking-hand, even at a very high wage. In consequence of this, many of our dairyfarmers with large herds are almost compelled at times to work thoir children harder than should be the case. lam also of the opinion that in many cases more work is demanded of the children than the farmer himself cares to see them doing. While this latter may be true, the percentage of children in New Zealand who arc overworked is, in my opinun, from personal experience amongst a very largo number of farms in the various dairying districts, vory small," Rev. T. G. Hammond, of Patea, will conluct services in the Whitelcy M :m( rial Church on Sunday 12th, mornirg and evening. The We'll-known eyesight and spectacle specialist, Mr A. Green, D.5.A.0., of Auckland, is now on a visit to New Plymouth, and may be consulted daily from 31at August at the consulting room in Messrs Bewley and Griffiths' premises, Devon street. Mr Green needs no introduction (o this district, where there arc many people who can gratefully point to him as having given them renewed sight. Anyone who is suffering from defective vision, aud who require tho use of spectacles, cannot do better than call at auce upon Mr Green, who has come fully prepared to deal with any stage or kind of eye trouble. Sufferers would do well to remember that where the eye requires attention delay is dangerous, and that an opportunity does not often occur of consulting a first-class specialist, If you have tho faintest suspicion that your eyes arc not just right, that your glasses don't suit your sight, if you have to hold a newspaper further from you than you should, or you cannot see at a distance, or if you suiter from headaches, painful bloodshot eyes, inflamed eyelids, crossed eyes, etc., then do not go to the average optician or spectacle seller, as he is unable to distinguish between optical defects and diseases, but consult a good eyesight specialist, who will thoroughly examine your eyes and give you good glasses, which will improve and strenghthen the sight. The optic nerves will secure rest, headaches will thus be provented, and there will be an absence pj djsjiness.—Abyi,