GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 296, 7 May 1913, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

'Sometimes we g0 for two or tnrce years without seeing u dairy inspe.-u.i-," remarked ii manager u a cheese fodiiry when giving evidence at the Aueivi.in-.t Magistrate's Court the other day. "'JUwr times we have thein around two or three times in a year," he sail, and added that tlie farmers fought anything approaching systematic inspection. Jn big opinion, the inspectors were required \o cover too much ground, and w«ro urgently in need of considerable assistance.

Regulations regarding the purchase of the fee simple of renewable leaws are

gazetted. It is provided tlm wary license to occupy issued on the detenu iibv, ation of a renewable lease shall eoutani,: such of the provisions of the lcas« at , the Land Board considers to be applicable. If the licensee fail to ob-tene • any of these provisions or makes deovuli ;.

in payment of any instalment, the Board,; may forfeit the license, but such forfeit-. ure will not affect its right to recover ,■ from the licensee any money payable by him.

"Do not feed ensilage," says a L'an&r. '-■■ iian journal, over a paragraph contain*, f? mg the news that "cerebral meningitis. '* last week caused the death of four young * \. horses in the St. Thomas distriot, awl v the veterinary who was called to attend, them (Dr. Harrison, of Ingersoll) ia! ( warning farmers to discontinue feeding- f ensilage to horses. The disease in eacaj .-> case, Dr. Harrison claims, wan cauSed J»y' 2£ feeding ensilage, which, while ge*er*Uj/,i'.*j and extensively used for cattle, it .-»sfls garded by Dr. Harrison as unfit. Ux£i% horses. r^ Sir Tat ton Sykes, whose death was re*, vft ported yesterday, was the fifth baronet "'"i • Born in 1820, he succeeded his father/. *"''' |in 1809. His publications are: "Side-', ,'j lights on the War," and "The New j Reign, of Terror in France." He owned. .' '" about 34,000 acres. His heir is his,, '.'t son, Lieutenant-Colonel Mark M.P. It was as a breeder of racehorse*, , that Sir Tatton Sykes was most fam- $ ous—the Sledmere yearlings being welt; *t known the world over. It was only Ute ',. very best that the baronet aimed « pne-j ri duclng, and at the Doncaster yearling- H sales each September his lots almost in-' •-' variably reached, big figures. Thfcmoiti. '.'4 remarkable feature about the \i is the average they have maintain*!! «J for over 20 years, and it is recorded that ■} since the year 1800 Sir Tattom Sjrkfcts '".? has sold at Doncaster 203 yearlings «t, - an aggregate of 274,180 guinea* an, '■"• average of nearly 1203 guineas. Whrt » yearlings they have been, tool' ChßeV -J wick was the first one about 28 years. /•■ ago, and among his successors nil \3 Spearmint, who, after being- a* *. I J yearling for 300 guineas to Mfcjor Loder, '1 won the Derby (£8450) and' tike Grand' .'$ Prix de Paris (£10,008). Last teason** : S racing showed Sledmere yoragstera to, f.'d the fore. Hall Cross just missing the i: \ highest honours among th> three-year-- ' ■'. olds and Craganour (a 3200gnB{ year-; >'.[\ ling, claiming first-class rank among th<h ; two-year-olds. Naturally there waa, 1 keen demand for tile yearlings front ■' the same stud at the Doncaster sales oat ''? September 12 and 14 lots realised 31;- j 600 guineas, being an average of 226* I guineas. This is arecord in,&igland, ex- .. r] eept for the quite abnormal B*le of, !| the late Duke of Wcstmrnster's yearling* ;| But if Sir Tatton Sykes received good* ;fc prices for his yearling? he was a plueky 1 buyer himself, and at the sale of' the ]* late Baron Hirsch's horses some vear* J ago, he gave 1,000 guineas for La Fleche, 1 the dam of Baroness La Fleche and | John o'" ©aunt (sire of Swynford). * I A gcrotfeman who is a well-known rent- i| dent of Dunedin met with a sonwwhafc | startling adventure with an oetopua i while fishing in the Lower Harbor '•> '* J couple of days ago. He was engaged A in his favorite pastime from the rocky > shore near the Acclimatisation hatchery below Portobello. Ite hta eo*« i pany were his wife and his young son. -» His attention was drawn (states th» Otago Daily Times) to some unusual a*> '\ ; pearanco among the rocks and seaweed </ near him, and was attracted by thft ,'j iridescent tints shown by an octopus* ;j which also had a companion. Well ao» | quainted with the malevolence of the of- | topus, he became possessed with a dtslro - * to kill it. For this purpose he impro. ?$ vised a spear by fastening an opened, < ! pocket-knife to the butt end of M» fiih,« ,i jng rod, With this weapon he inflicted 1 one stab on the devil fish. Its A hues faded into a dull greyness, and it* *• J eyes gleamed with an appearance «f ''l.; ftendish hate and ferocity. Instead tfi'j beating a retreat to the deep water wAftl] i far away, the oetopus actually shallow water and seemed imbued WJ^Hra

I malevolence, its eyes gleaming with Wf t i qaenehable hate. Its appearanee m 1 so ttrrifying that the lady screamed aid ] fled, taking her son with her, and leaf- j iag her husband to battle alone with; j the monster, of which the tentacles wei» -$ at least four feet long. Another stab ;.*■ failed to disable the octopus, although one of its eyes was destroyed, a«d y«t • i this did not avert its evident determLsa- jj tion to reach its enemy. The blade of j the knife was broken, and the Usherm*!' ! had recourse to the butt. Half beate»;i >■ to pulp, the octopus did not wl*x it» ,'., 4 fell purpose. The end of the struggle „'j was that the monster found shelter im >3j a crevice in the rocks, and from its rtyrigj maining eye there still glared the ft*H of baffled hate. The participator In *Ws|| conflict was familiar with Jules and now able to realise the malefoleae* ;\§B of the cuttle fish, to which the is a near relation. He is also eonvinotd.;' jj that should a child while bathing t»- '■■* counter an octopus of any considerable size, the struggle for life would be a very ~' : i unequal one. ' j A striking indictment of the petty pH-. J fering habits of some women was mad* by the Rev. E. J. Houghton, rector of '■s St. Stephen's, Bristol. In a letter to i the newspapers he says: "This petty pil- 0 fering has been brought so much to my '\ notice that I have had to make it thi J subject of special moral teaching. I ;| have been assured by those whose know- * rerfge 1 cannot doubt that there is no end to small thefts which go on in high-clats places of entertainment by well-dressed ~ 'ladies.' In the dressing-rooms of Sigh- .-.;

class music-halls, picture-houses, reitaurants, the daily pilferings are not simply irritating, hut a serious financial loaf. Ladies calmly walk into these place*! use the dressing-rooms, go out again, or.s. sit down and carry on, where Writing ma«v terials are provided, a large and heav,**Correspondence. In one case-1 know of

a lady .who remained three hours in a

crowded tea-room without spending a penny, and the loss of towels, soap, hair-

brushes and combs, serviettes, tea-spoons,

even small cruets and also powder-puffs, amounts to a vexatious item each week.

Where, when there is so much exterior

display, is this petty lust for getting something for nothing going to end? Shall we be obliged to have plainclothes detectives in addition to church

officials, or will Englishwomen so keep

a close watch upon one another that these things which are becoming a dis-

grace to womanhood shall be bound to cease? What are Englishwomen coming to? Bud as men are, Ido not think that they make off with property like'this, certainly not with other people's public, powdrr-pulFs."