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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7935, 8 January 1906, Page 6

Four milking machines have been installed by Mr Lysnar (at his Okitu Poverty Bay) dairy farm, where some 95 cows are now being machine-milked. The Southland Times has been shown a letter from a Melbourne doctor who wrote stating that he bad noticed that lnvercaigill had carried Prohibition, and asking if it was now in force. "if so," be added, "my wife and I will abandon our trip to the Southern lakes, and do the North Island instead." An Instance of what the milking industry does for Taranaki is given by the Daily News. During December nearly £16,000 was distributed amongst the factory suppliers near Manaia. The five companies doing buisness around Eltham—Eltbam, Ngairo, Maagatoki, Lowgarth and Kaponga—distributed over £21,000. Although the rumour that one or two of the New Zealand footballers were seriously thinking of taking up their residence in England at the conclusion of the present tour was denied by the English correspondents of colonial papers (says the Napier Telegraph) private advices received point at the probability of more than one of tho colonial players remaining in England. When a London (Ontario) fire insurance agent opened his morning mail or week or two since ho found there a cheque for £I.OOO. Accompanying this cheque was a letter from a well-known merchant, stating that he had found his loss by fire to be triflug and he in consequence, returned the full amount of the cheque banded him by the fire insurance company to cover the loss sustained. When he had recovered from the shock the agent commuicated the particulars to his head office. Later he received a reply, to be handed to the merchant, conveying the thanks of the company, and enclosing a cheque for £3OO as a token of appreciation of an altogether unprecedented act.