TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3895, 25 August 1891, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(United Press Association,)

Cbiristohuboh, August 24.

To-night the City Council resolved that in the opinion of the Council it is desirable that the four licensing districts within the oity be mated into one district. The weather to-day has been extraordinarily warm. A north wester blew all day, and to-night there were vivid flashes of distant lightning round the horizon in the north west and afterwards in the east. The steamer Industry has been . fitted with two new plates, and will be floated out of the dock' to-morrow. Inveroargill, August 23. Bowerman's buggy, stolen three months ago, was found on the roadside near Drummond's Hotel, Dunedin, August 24. At a meeting of the Suburban Borough Counoil directly interested in the enoroaobment of' the sea, at which Caversham, St Hilda and South Dunedin councillors attended in a body, ind the City Council was represented by three councillors, it was resolved to support a proposal to create a Domain Board, with power to rate up to £d in the £, any money expended in the meantime to be a first charge on the funds* Napier, August 24. Patrick Frawley was charged with impersonation at the 'last gepera) election, but had to be remanded. Ip connection with the ease, Captain Preece has been subpoenaed frepv, Eaiapoi, Mr Hoddinott from IflMI I '' cargill, and the Clerk of Parliament or the Issuer of Writs frgnj Wellington, %^

Stamp 88*0904. Auckland, August 24. William Woolley, who resides |a Melton Avenue, Mount IJden, had a narrow eseapa from being Saturday evening, About p o'clock Mr Woolley was going up Mplton Avenue and>as near the residence of Mr Thompson, M.U.8., when he was struck on the left shoulder by a ricochet rifle bullet, but the bullet was almost spent. During the Saturday afternoon Borne firing was proceeding at Mount Edon rifle range by two Volunteer rifle corps, and it is thought the bulle't a boulder about the "target. 1 TM bullet has been handed over to Inspector Brobaro go that an enquiry may be made into the matter, A young man named James Mcr Millan was walking with a companion along an embankment at Opua, near Bussell, when he suddenly jumped over into the sea and started swimming off the shoie. A lad ntmed William Murdock, son of Mr Murdock, the stationmaster, at Opua, with great risk to his own life, bravely jumped into the water with all hiß clothes on, and eventually brought McMillan safely ashore. McMillan after being resuscitated stated that he had no recollfectittp of having been in the wato,

Death of the Rev- "W. TebTss, 9> Auckland, Augusr 24. A London cablegram bas been received recording the death of the Rev W. Tebbs, incumbent of St Matthew's Parish, Auckland. He leaves a-widow and most of his family in Auckland. He had obtained six months' leave of absence through ill health.

FatalitiesAuckland, August 24A gnmdigger named James Hamilton has been found drowned at Port Charles, Mercury Bay. He is supposed to have fallen off the rocks on tl» beach. At the inquest on the body of J. Aitken Oonnell. a verdict was returned that deceased died by shooting himself with a revolver. The post mortem showed that death was instantaneous, the skull being badly fractured in two places. A bulldog revolver was found loaded in four chambers.

The " Capping l Nuisance." t Auckland, August 24. a meeting of the Students' Association a resolution wae carried that the Association dissappreves of any demonstration at the ""capping" ceremony to-morrow which may disturb the general order of the meeting. The Univergity Council contemplated appealing to their esprit de corps or to the policemen.

SALTINGJUTTER. In the ' Prairie Farmer ' Mr T. D. Curtis supplies an excellent article on the various methods of salting butter. The old practice is to spread out the batter, sprinkle over the salt, and proceed to grind it in by main force, regardless of the effect on the grain on its keeping quality. A preferable way is to sprinkle the salt over the butter whilst it is in granular form after washing, and at once commence to stir it in, mixing it evenly throughout the mass, without breaking the granules or causing them to stick together. The salt, if what it should be, readily dissolves and covers every particle of the butter without leaving undissolved salt in it. Undissolved salt in butter is always most objec-

tiorable. Properly speaking the above method is brine salting ; but brine salting, 83-called, requires the preparation in advance of pure saturated brine made by dissolving about 36 per cent by weight of salt in cold water or, if the water be heated to boiling point, 40 per cent. This secures * saturation of the brine. If more salt is added than the water will take up the salt may be allowed to settle, when the brine can be drawn off. Sufficient brine to float the batter should then be poured into the charn and allowed to remain ten minutes. The brine may be drawn off as goon as it has come into contact with every granule of butter, drained, and then prtssed into a solid mass. The granules will not readily adhere together unless the temperature is gradually raised to 58 deg or 60 deg. If the butter is made up at too low a temperature, after salting in this fashion it is likely to turn out crumbly when cut. The salt used in any of the above methods should be of the purest.

not so much a consideration as purity and proper condition. The salt should be fine and even-grained, soft, and very soluble, and k free • from dust and dirt. Above all dairy salt must be free from alkali, which is a most injurious substance for dairy produce. If the brine turns litmus paper blue it would be wise to give up using that salt. The brine may be used several times over provided a little fresh water and salt are added each time to keep up the required quality. It is better, however, to use a fresh solution each time.