PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 146, 11 June 1908, Page 2

PERSONAL

■triends of Mr. 1). JJerry will be dad to learn tliati he lias arrived at Sura ia good health. A cable received from that place yesterday intimated tliat Mr. Berry purposes proceeding to Sydney. 'Mr. C. Hume, resident secretary at Wellington of the Australian Widows' I'Ufld, who has been promoted to the I Melbourne office, (has been 13ic recipient of jjroscn tat ions from the staff and others.—Press wire. Tie appointment of Mr. Reeves as High Commissioner for New Zealand in •Uindoa was renewed yesterday.—Press wire. i Tiro many Taranaki friends of Major JBartlett, D.15.0., formerly of Ha were I ami noh - of the Xninsvmtl, will be | jilcased to learn of his success in that Maud of so much disappointment. The [Transvaal Leader of a recent date has „the following to Bay ol the Major's I -operations"Major. Bartlett baa been i Jive years on liis farm, and in answer j to a question he assured lae.lie lias ijusvcr regretted the step. It has been 'a case of hard work, both bodily and ■ mentally, long hours and many disappointments. Jjasfc year he lost every* thing -then standing, when the locusts visited liim, as was the case with hundreds of others, He recognises that in South Africa everything produced on the farm commands a much higher price than in New Zealand, and the expenses of farming- arc much the same. He ooni£s from a country where you haveto work hard if you wish to succeed* «jsd he works as hard here, and in addition lie keeps his accounts as they, should be kept, i'licsc show tliat last year's operations entirely owing to locusts—represented a loss of between .•C2U and .-C3O, but unless some unforeseen tragedy happens during the.jiext couplcof months lie will close his books for this financial year showing a profit of over £2OOO. That is what a thoroughly experienced farmer, who is not afiv.id to take off his coat, can do on 1800 acres of land, two-thirds of which is grazing country. Lord .Selbornc's historic words that 'there arc sovereigns strewed on the veldt? literally waiting to be picked up' were no idle words."

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