Alfredton Road Board.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3325, 3 October 1889, Page 2

Alfredton Road Board.

Tho ordinary meeting of the Board was held on September 2ith. Present—Messrs Kebbel*' (chairnmn). Warren, J. Smith, H. Benton, Cross, and Eli Smith. The minutes of tho previous meeting were redur and confirmed, Correspondence was read from 'the. Survey 'o|ce'i;u plans of District Eoad. The' Clerk reported having attended to samp! From P. M. Ollivier, re rates on sections in tho Supreme Court, From Henry Hall, solicitor for registrar Supremo Court, ro samcJHattcr. From Bank Now Zealand stating tho subsidy for 1888-9 had been paid into the Bank, £29 n lid; s!s? 2C-!f!10";V= lodging cheque for £l3 6d 9d."'Froin J. 11. Davio, statiug ha-yjng received letter from' Coiinissibher ''l3rb# Lands that his thirds could be expended by the Eketahuna ftoad Board aiid charged to Alfiedtou Hoad Board. ' Ijesolvcll that this course be adopted,' From '-CreaßSjy, stating that a further loan bMwO would be granted forlburaua Valley Boad on condition that all j the necessary steps-were (alien, From

C. B. 0. Smith ro plans of same road dating ho was tumble to get them done at onco. Resolved, that Mr Smith bo informed that if not completed and certified by Chief Stirvoyor by next mooting his contract will bo cancelled. From W. G, Heard, £lB 10s paid into the Bank and Bending note of account, The account was- passed for payment,

Mr Good wailed on the Board re various roads on bis property, and requesting the Board to closo same as they were of no uso, The Clerk was instructed to let Mr Good know when an answer was received from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Resolved that Mr Marchant bo written to asking if tho road to J. Brannigan's section is legalised. A letter was received from tho Bank enclosing a receipt for £Blos for public account, boim? interest on District Loan for 2\ years, From County Clerk ro transfer of Messrs Looch Bros, proporty to C, Kebbell. Tho Clock was instructed to write to tho Cashpoint Eoad Board re this matter. From H. Carnoll re thirds and crossing to his Bection. Resolved that he bo informed that this matter must bo deferred until a reply is rccoived from Mr Marchant re roads. That tho Clerk write to the Minister of Lands complaining thirds cannot bo got. From J. Ashworth applying for payment of ono day's work in Tawataia road. Mr Smith stated lie had employed him. Mr Smith's action was approved of and the amount passed.

Messrs J. Smith and H. Benton were appointed to sign separate rate. Tho Board then proceeded to fix special aicti for proposed loan to metal main road in accordance with a resolution passed at a meeting of settlers on 20th September. It was resolved that tho clerk make out a list of properties to bo included for rating purposes for a loan of £2500, and forward to tho County Council. Mr Warren gave notice of motion that Mr Girdwood's deposit be bo refunded. That slips be cleared off Tawataia road, and tho road put in repair, tho said work to be dono by coiltract. That a committee consisting of Messrs Warren, doss and Kebbell be appointed to get the road formed past Phillips'. That owing to frequent interruptions persons having business with the Board bo requested to attend between one and two p.m. Payments amounting to £3O 10s 8d were passed. Messrs Warren and J. Smith were appointed to sign cheques. The next meeting was fixed for 22nd October.

A Bloodhound Detective, Hunting up cony about the Whitechapel murdor, I came across a private agent tho other day, says a London special, who told me several several interesting stories. We got talking, for example (apropos of a flaring shilling shocker entitled ' Richard Barlow, Bloodhound," which decorates tho bookstalls just now,) ot instinct, and whethor, as a rule, detectives found it desirable to let their feelings guide them. My acquaintance replied " No, not as a rule." He had, however, known one man whoso instinct in a number ol cases had pulled him through, and who certainly did seem to bo a sort of a bloodhound, This inspector was employed in the famous Constanco Kent murder case, in which, you remember, a young girl, out of envy and hatred, suffocated her stepmother's baby and concealed the body in a privy, Directly tho detective saw 811 the parties concerned m this tragedy ho felt a lightning liko conviction (founded on no sane evidenco whatever) that the quiet, composed little Constance was the criminal. Tho evidenco against the girl, however, proved slight, and sho was discharged after a polico inquiry before tho magistrates. A tremendous newspaper outcry against tho detective followed, and he lost his placo at Scotland Yard, A few years lator, of course, Constanco Kent (then in a Protestant convent at Brighton) confessed, and expiated her offence by fifteon years' penal servitude. I saw her when I went through Milbank some time ago. She was about to bo discharged on tho following Monday, and to return to tho Brighton convent. The wayward, passionate girl of twenty had become a quiet, grey-haired shadow-like olderly woman, with a faco full of pooco and rcstfulness.

A Wonderful Plant A subject which is deserving of llio attention ot the (arming interest of tins district is that of a new forage plant in regard to which there lias been quite a sensation causal in the old world. The plant is said to he of a wonderful nature, crowing enormous and most profitablecrops on cvtn tho poorest soils, and seeming to flmirish luxuriantly in any climate. To tho Melbourne Leader we aro indebted for (ho following information concoruim; the plant: The plant in question is tho Lalbjm SHtulru, and tho credit of having brought it to its prosont ;stato of dovelopmont, through half a century of constant experimenting and improvement, belongs to Professor Wagner, of Germany, Tho Mhyrui Silmlrh grows in a wild state on the parapos of South America, where it flourishes so luxuriantly that cheep aro frequently entangled in it and smothered by its rankucss and closeness ofpwth. In its wild state tho bccilol the plant is unablo to germinate, but alter 50 years of tho most careful cultivation this difficulty Ins. been completely overcome. The plant belongs to the order of tho leguminosio, and as such it is able to forage for itself in regard to nitrogen, of which it obtains abundant supplies, either from the lower strata of soil or from tho boundless atmospheric stores. Even en , the poorest soils it grows a crop which will yioldat least 4 tons of hay per acre, tad tho uutritivo vnhto of tho crop, as determined by chemical analysis, is auoi(fc twice as treat as that of clover hay. Tljc Prussian Jliuister of Agriculture Ims been to deeply impressed with the great value of this plant that a government order has just been issued, granting to ovcry Prussian land owner who cultivates this plant ou his waste land a subsidy of 30s per hectare —a hectaro being equal to 2J English am Asa couscquenoo of this imperial recognition of the value of tho plant, all the available seed of the cultivated plant has been bought up at famine prices, but a numtor of -youiig plants have been inserted for silo'by |he'Latltyrus Sjlveitria Agency, established lit Ljveipodl fov A the purposo of introducing tho crop into England,' ___