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Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 9 May 1913, Page 2

Four weddings are to be celebrated in Te Puke during the early part of next month. , The railway bridge over the Raparapahoe. stream, near Mr Collins' residence, has now been completed, and the engine ran into the station yard this morning with several trucks of coal. The fencing of the road connecting the main street with that at,the rear of Messrs Wallace & Co's premises has been finished, under the supervision of the Public Works Department, and the thoroughfare is now open for traffic.

In, view of the New Zealand Loan,and Mercantile Company's sale of turnip cattle next Tues-, day, when, over 1890 head of grown cattle will be yarded, it is pleasing to note the hardening tendency of prices, a further advance of Is'' being recorded. Ox beef at last Wednesday's Westfield sale is quoted at 30s. ■=

. Reports from Dunedin state that onions advanced 15s in value last week, the wholesale price now being #515s per ton. Circumstances indicate a further rise. The value of potatos? fell last week by 10s per ton. Largi orders are being booked in the South for delivery in the North Island next month, and it is anticipated that prices will harden this month.

The following pictures will be shown in McDowell'?] Hall on

laturday and Monday evenings

'Animated Putty,' comic ; 'Animals' Hospital,' scenic; 'Behind the Scenes at Punch and Judy's,' comic; 'Rebelliousßlossom,'colored drama;' Making Stsel Rails,' educational ; ' Ruses,' conic : 'Klondike Steal,' Wild West; ' Balearic Islands,' scenic;' Legend of a Horse Shoe,' drama ; 'Calino Cools the Crowd,' comic; ' Bearded Bandit,' cowboy drama.

Sir William Hall-Jones, until lately High Commissioner for Nevv Zealand, intends remaining in Sydney for a-few weeks prior to returning, to the Dominion. Sir William states that he does not intend to re-enter the political arena, but will return to private life. ..

At the last, meeting of the Waikato Hospital. Board it transpired that thirty-four . gallons of milk per day were used in the institution, and that the cost to the Board was £445 per annum. A tender at 8d per gallon was accepted for the supply for tne ensuing year. The totalisator investments for the Dominion from October Ist, 1912, to April 2nd, 1913, amount to £1,889,016, showing an increase of £375,793 over the same period of the previous year. It is estimated that the Government this year will receive £100,000 as revenue from the racing clubs.

The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Richard Shaw Burke, a miner 'on the west coast of Tasmania, has been cleared up by the lj captijre of an octopus 12ift long.and 3|t .across the back. When the 'monster was opened a shirt similar to that worn by Burke was found in its stomach. Burke was lost bn the coast several months ago, the general opinion being that he had been swept off a rock close to where the octopus was killed. The largest known Australian mining deal has been completed. The entire interest of the late W. R. and T. S. Hall in the Mount Morgan mine has been sold to a powerful English and Australian syndicate. It is understood the price is between a million and a million and a quarter.-

The' Gisborne Sheep Farmers' Frozen ■ Meat Company has decided to form an auxiliary company with a capital of £150,000 to take up commercial and financial business undertaken by all established mercantile houses. The first subscription is limited to 40,000 shares .to the public, but preference is to be given to bona fide farmers. ,

Owing to the ..expense, the Departmental exhibits of the Department 'of Agriculture, so popular a feature at the : various agricultural shows, are to be reduced to main displays annually —one in the North islaqd* and one in the Souths The former will be made alternately at Palmerston North and Auckland or Hamilton, the latter at Dunedin. Two smaller exhibits will take place, however, one in each island, the rotation being-, if necessary arrangements can be made, in the North Island at Hamilton, New Plymouth, Hawera,' Hastings, and a northern town, such as Whangarei or in the South Island at Invercargill, Nelson, Blenheim, Christchurch, Timaru,and Ashburton. During the coming winter show season exhibits will be made at Palmerston North and Hamilton in the North Island, and Dunedin and Invercargill in the South,

A remarkable display of grain is to be seen in Christchurch just now. The sheaves are the finest product of the finest wheatfields in New Zealand-eighty bushels to the acre crops. The sheaves are in charge of ¥r A; Macpherson, Director of Field Experiments, and are under process of preparation for the Auckland Exhibition and the• Dunedin and other Winter Shows. There are cereals in ear and in small sacks from all parts of the South Island. _ American wheat and oats are likely to find favor in the eyes of New Zealand , farmers. The Department has i impDrted'a considerable number of samjjles,'. some of which attractive. There are . two sacks of Prohi wheat on vieW u a very nice specimen-but the most astonishing wheat is an : American sample of Perfection. Other varieties are Dreadnought, Federation, and Burgoyne, grown at Cambridge College, in America. Among the imported'samples is one from Naples named | Raeti. It was grown by the Department last year to get it established, and now seed from it is being sent out. The American oats also look promising. They include Shadeland, Climax, (a picture of condition), and New Kcrson. While on the subject of imported oats, it is interesting to know that the director of Ruakura Experimental Station some time ago selected an oat from Argentine which was proved for some years to be absolutely rust-resistent. • It is now being tried in the South Island in order that the Department can be assured that outside its own districtitretains its rust-resisting qualities.

The Auckland Star states tbit. the cessation of the second Main 1 Trunk express will save £75 a day.

Three pounds reward ii offered for the recovery, of • three' steei#" lost from section 4, Kaituna. j _ The annual meeting/ of th 6 Paengaroa Football Club will be held in the Schoolhou?e on Monday evening next at 8 o'clock.

Cr Matthews expressed ,the opmion at Tuesday's meeting of the Tauranga County Council that motor cars should be . compelled to use horns instead,of sirens. .

A patriot who called at this office, says the Gisborne Times, Was much perturbed because the wrapper on sonje, chocolate" he purchased on thelbattleship New ?, e . a ' at )d. bore the inscription. Made m Germany." •• It is reported that a legacy of) tour millions has been inherited by a farmer at .Rewa, OrouaT County, whilst a family named f -J Killeen, at Addison's, Westjaiid, . - are stated to have been left a sum running into five figures. 1 i At a , meeting of the Dunedin inhibition Committee, it was decided, owing to lack of support from the counties, tp take«no further action in regard to setting U ,P an Otago Court at the Auckland Exhibition. Of £600 wanted only £357 was promised, Mr W. A. Bennett, who was ' recently elected a member of the • Te Puke Town' Board, intends' calling a. meeting of settlers, to be held in' the Papamoa School- •' house on Friday, 30th inst., at 7.30 p.m., for the purpose of deciding for. which roads Goverii-. |, mentgrants,are required, with' a view to making .

The Rotorua Chronicle stated • party of. officers from - H. M. S. New Zealand had good, sport fishing on the Lake' on - Tuesday last. Accompaniiid by. • Mr Moorhouse, Lord BurghershV and Lieut, Campbell • secured 16' fish, whilst Prince George, of Battenberg, with Lieut. Gatneron ! landed 17. The party also went. ashore at Te Ngae and secured a ■•■■■■ good many with the ffy. Lord'' Burghersh intends to return next season for a six month's trip. ..' n At the meeting of the Taurabga' County Council on Tuesday a ' letter was received from Mr W.' - 1 G. Wickham, -Trade V sioner, • asking 'to be furnished with a return of the motor cars ' and cycles registered by the"' , Council, in order to assist him in ■' the compilation of statistics of the "• cars and cycles registered in the- •' Dominion, with a view of aster- ' taining the the relative number *" 1 from the leading manufacturing ' countries, and their distribution. The > Council decided to supply the information'asked for. •' .** - u A prominent Ashburton farmer •; states that he did not make £5 : ' out of grain this season, and he V,; does not know of any other far- *-v • mer who is satisfied with his;re- , : r -; turns. He calculates that' an )■' • average yield of at least 40.bush--:,i els per acre is-necessary, to'makegraingrowing .payable, and he reckons it up in this wayTak- ■ ■ ing the land at £30 per acre, a tr rent of at least 5 per cent has to a/ i be allowed for, which 5 means 80s P3racre; under present conditi6ns it costs about 25s to put the V 4 crop in, anda similar sum to take. Q it out. That is a total cost of £4 per acre, and when it is com-.v ;-:.. pared with the 25 bushel average t at 3s 6d per bushel, it leaves a j margin of 7s Gd per acre. "If / | wheat goes below 3s 6d there's: -1 nothing in grain growing," he 1 said." "That's about bedrock, how that wages have gone up. and working hours are restricted.' ,

We haveStogo to the English ;• I newspapers for supplementary side lights on the, gentle doves now at the head of the suffra- ■ ■ gette movement in England (says an American writer.) Thus " we read that Miss Sylvia Pank- i »■<= hurst put in an appearance at the Cannonrow Police station, ' seized the inkpot and threw it into the middle of the room, > i splashing the ink over the face ' of Ihj inspector. Her own -- 1 hands being covered with the same useful fluid, she followed up her first attack upon the, ■ majesty of the law by slapping the inspector's face and leaving the imprint of her dainty fingers upon that intelligent tenance. To fine the dear * Sylvia'£lo for this display .of fl s iff rage manners seems the reductioad adsurdum. Since she favors the slapping .method of v correction some stalwart matron ;; rv should have been entrusted with •' the task of administering the - v/ \ same medicine to herself, but not on the facey ' ' -

... '■! V; y '"pt ' ' i Mr Frank Bostock inserts a notice in to-day's issue thanking all those ratepayers who sup- ..,, portedihis candidature at the refr.' cent Road Board election. f>- . • I. '; A sitting of the S.M.' Court was held in the Mission Hall to- . day, Mr Dyer presiding, Aeonsiderable amount of civil busines was dealt with, particulars of ; which will appear in our next /issue. In Australia, 'when theatrical companies are touring the ■ country districts, perhaps the financial venture of the trip has t , ; .not been altogether- what it ''; might have been, and so con- • sequently they have to rely on J the clemency of the guard of "t; a night goods train, so as to "jump" train to their next place of call. It happened that v a band of theatricals were tucked ■j-v upder a tarpaulin, and the train '^■ v ßped on its journey. Pulling up vifat, a station on the way, the ' Jguard was 'greeted with " Hullo, Jack, what have you aboard to- "' night ?" " Oh, only manure and ; actors," was ithe reply. . This ' was too much for tlia "starof •the' company,' who shouted out •from, underneath the tarpaulin: " For goodness sake, mate, put us before the manure!"

".' There has been a falling off in the number of co-operative labourers on Government railway aind road: works this year,. compared with previous years. The . number of artisans and labourers • employed on co-operative works ' throughout New; Zealand during the month of March Was as follows : Railways, 2118; roads, 2254; [In 1 February the number •wasjv Railways, 2011; roads UA 22t2. For January : : Railways ■ 1697; roads, 4169. In March 1911, there were 3,802 men working on railway works, and 7000 on road works. The total num- !: ber .of men employed on co-oper-ative works in 1911 was 10,802, and in March this year 4372.

, . IVtr Ivo Qarr, of Paengaroa, is convening a meeting of the settlers in the vicinity, and also those resident in the Pongakawa and surrounding districts, for the purpose of discussing, the advisability of installing a private telephonic corinnection. The meeting will be held in the Paengaroa schoolhouse" on Thursday,"

_£ .jteJM'at 7iSO-p,m.'«-A~num-fiier Of settlers are taking a keen interest in the proposal, and it is anticipated that there will be a ; large attendance. MrCarrhas, : , we understand, been in communiv; cation with the Departmental officials in connection with this matter, and ' will be able to furnish complete • information to those present.

4 >The first of a series of " long .Jnights " in connection with the •Jlocal dancing classes was held ' under very favorable circumstances in McDowell's Hall last night. The building was comfortably filled for the occasion, and . the night being fine and cool, a mostenjoyable time was spent. • An innovation on the programme was a twilight waltz, which was, thoroughly appreciated ' by those present. The music, which was supplied by Messrs Findlay and Taylor, gave every satisfaction to the dancer?. Supper was handed round before . midnight, and the function was I brought to a close soon after-Si-.wards.