LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 112, 1 November 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The main roll for Stratford contains 0417 names as against 4971 at last election.

A funeral service for the late Sergeant Moyle will be held in the Salvation Army Barracks at 2.15 p.m. this afternoon.

The annual rose show of the New Plymouth Horticultural Society will be held in the Brougham street hull on Thursday, November 0, and judging by the keen interest that is being taken by local rose growers the entries should .prove a record. Similar shows held by the society in the past have been very successful, and that they were much appreciated by the public was shown'' by the increased attendance on each occasion. The committee is working very hard to make this year's show more attractive than any of those held previously, and we understand that-Some of the exhibits promised .will be worth going a long way to see.

Mr. G. P. Wake, the Mayor of Eltham, complained a,t the political meeting in Ettham on Monday that it was difficult to gather from the columns of the newspapers a fair idea of a man's politics. According to, the Opposition Press, Mr. Massey was an angel of light. "Hear, hear,", said Mr. Massey, who was doubtless wondering at this flourish from a man who had until recently figured as a prospective Government candidate for the Egmont seat. .Mr. Wake went on. "But, according to the Government organs, lie's the other thing, and only wants the tail to complete the picture." There was no "hear, hear" from the Leader of the Opposition this time, AVhile in Xew Zealand our cheesemakers.' knowledge is limited to It'bie manufacture of one variety of cheese. Miss Davies, who lias ju'st been appointed to the Agricultural Department's staff of experts, is mistress of the whole art of soft cheese-making, as well as of all the hard pressed cheese. For instance, she makes cream cheese, which, it is stated, converts a gallon of 45 per cent, cream into 12s Gd worth of cream cheese, and she also makes another very profitable cheese, called Bodvari, made in sizes of about one pound and a-quarter each, which sell in the Old Country at Sd per pound, a little over lib of cheese being iKJacfc from e-ach gallon of milk.

A writer in the Lady's Realm makes the interesting calculation that "the women of the United Kingdom carry in their hair hairpins equivalent in weight to a couple of railway engines and tenders weighing in the aggregate-one hundred and forty-four tons," which is an excellent illustration of the old Scotch proverb that "Money a mickle maks a muckle. Another amazing calculation as to the value of the hairpins in actual use among the women of the United Kingdom results in the statement that these unsuspecting la<lies* do, amone them, spend not far short of £24 000 per year on the harmless, necessary hairpin! Following this astounding calculation, it remains only to add that if every woman in the United Kingdom loses one hairpin every day, the value of alii those hairpins would amount to £IBOO per day, or £057,000 per year! The moral is, never lose hairpins; the problem is, where do the lost hairnins go to? '

A questioner at Mr. Massey's Eltham meeting on Monday night brought down the house when he sweetly asked if Mr. Massey intended to go round and speak for every member of his party, "or," he continued, "is it only a few'of the inferior ones he is going to speak for?" Mr. Massey, when the laugh had died down, announced that he was' going to speak wherever he wa,s invited to speak so long as he had nights to give. He 'was not speaking for Mr. Dive, but was glad to help him. and would help any Opposition member who he considered was not receiving fair play. He considered .Mr. Dive was not receiving fair play. It was mot « fair thingi if<o!\ a Minister to come up here from tlie South Island and try and oust a man who had served the electors of this district faithfully and well during the time he had been their representative. The reply was greeted with loud and prolonged cheering, but the gentleman in the body of the hall was not <lone with yet. "You'll find it easier," he told .Mr. Massey, "to catch rabbits in franklin than to catch votes for the Opposition in Eltham to-night."

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A man was arrested at Auckland on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, and when he was searched ft was discovered that he had £oo7 in hid possession.

Dear butter has resulted in an increasing demand for jam, and it is said that a southern Arm has been deluged with orders in consequence from all parts of New Zealand.

The- demand for dairy cows in the Manawatu district this spring is stated to have far exceeded that of any previous season within the recollection of those concerned in the industry.

The .erection of a large cheese factory at Manukau by the New Zealand Dairy Union is ncaring -completion. A supply from about 800 cows has been guaranteed, while the season's output has already been sold at a satisfactory figure.

Sixpenny meals will now be a thing of the past at Auckland. At a recent meeting of the restaurant proprietors, it was decided to raise the price of (id meals to 9d, and the 9d meal to Is. This increase in the cost of meals has been found necessary owing to the rise in wages and material.

Taking the prospects for the forthcoming season generally (says the N.Z. Times), there is every reason to believe that it will be a profitable one for the man on the land. Good all-round prices are likely to prevail for all rural commodities, and the prospective yields will be well up to the average. An epidemic of measles is in evidence in some Taranaki districts. An'Eltham farmer, with a family of fifteen (a good number in these days of small families), had the whole lot, with his wife, down at once. The neighbors round about shared a hand with milking, while the erstwhile helps were laid up for repairs. At one of the Poverty Bay cheese factories, a record price will he paid this season for butter-fat for the factory's purpose. The whey, instead of being returned to farmers in its raw state, will first be pasteurised, thus ensuring the rearing of healthy calves and pigs. A special feature in regard to whey that has been pasteurised is that it remains perfectly sweet for some considerable time, while skim milk nearly always becomes sour in hot weather, before it can be fed to the stock. , The Mayor of Christehurch- severely criticised the bands of that city,at a meeting of the council last week, declaring that they were very poor. "I have travelled about the Dominion," he said "and to my mind there is no doubt that the band music in Christehurch is the worst in New Zealand. The bands do not do anything at the contests, and the only one that has won honors in the contest is not included an the list of bands engaged for the season. There are too many bands in Christehurch; that probably accounts for the poor quality of the music."

New York has been excited by the report that Mrs E. H. Harriman, widow of the "railway wizard," is selling out. It is stated that Mrs Harriman finds herself unequal to the strain of facing Wall Street and continuing the battle against financial magnates, who arc trying to wrest from her the control of her late husband's gigantic enterprises. Mr Harriman, who died in September, MOfl, left a fortune estimated at over £50,000,000. which, after handsome provision for his son and daughter, was placed under the control of the widow. His three lieutenants—Messrs Lovett, Loree, and Krutt-sehmidt—-assumed control of the railways, but Mrs Harriman personally looked after the financial side ot this huge bequest. Mr Pierpont Morgan had a long conference with the '"railway wizard" just before his death, and, it is understood, agreed to arrange for the protection of not only the Harriman interests, bnt the interests of the market generally. It is stated (the Chronicle relates) that Mrs Harriman, when she has' realised hei gigantic holdings, intends investing the money in and !eiidiiig"lior whole support to the proposed Xatinnal Bank, which she wishes to maintain as a monument to her late husband.

Mr F. E. Kitchener, J.P. of Oulton Old Hall, Stone, chairman of the Stafford!shire Education Committee, speaking at the annual distribution of prizes to evening school students at Stone, recalled some interesting incidents of the youth and early manhood of Viscount Kitchener, his cousin. The speaker was emphasising the fact that every branch of learning was of value, and illustrated his point by reference to Lord Kitchener. He said he had something to do with his cousin's •early education. Lord Kitchener's father being out of England. Lord Kitchener was then a somewhat tall, overgrown lad, nearly Oft lin in height. He managed somehow to scramble into Woolwich. He was not high on the lists, and no one thought anything about him. After leaving Woolwich he got his commission in the Engineers, and still no one was thinking much about him. He got his first shove up in the world when he was appointed on the Palestine survey, and here

he managed to learn how to manage native soldiers, and acquired a great deal of that command over men which to-day distinguishes him. He got that, his first appointment, because he knew how to photograph. At that time they wanted someone to go to Palestine and take photographs, and it was this knowledge that gave Lord Kitchener the lift up. SALE OF MEN'S AND BOY'S CLOTHING.

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