GENERAL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2537, 25 June 1909, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

It is stated thak in South Australia attention is being ’paid to growing peas for fattening iambs. Peas are recognised as being one of the best foodstuffs 1 and pigs and lambs thrive and put on wonderful condition and cp:endid moat on the same diet. As an instance of this there was disposed of m the Adelaide sheep market recently a pen of five lambs fattened by a settlor of Aidinga on peas. These were sold, and realised the remarkable price of 39s 7d. The pen was much admired for the splendid condition of its occupants.

The remarkable thing about the big display of butter at the Dunedin Winter Show was (states an exchange) that all the winning exhibits wore made from pasteurised cream. That the quality was exceptional is undoubted, as we have the word of tho Dairy Commissioner for it that it was the finest display of butter lie has seen in Dunedin. The principle _ of pasteurised cream for butter-making lias certainv come to stay. By its means New Zealand makers will be able to occupy a stronger position than ever on the Home markets, that is, providing they do not continue to imperil their reputation by water-logging.

A largely attended special meeting on Tuesday evening of the Timaru Waterside Workers’ Union passed a resolution admiring the manly attitude of Mr. Hogg, and condemning the Ministry for forcing the resignation pf one of the workers’ best advocates in the Dominion.

A well-known district fiaxmiller assured a Manawatu “Standard” representative that the industry was at a very much lower ebb than was generally thought. He considered ,indeed, that unless the silver lining appeared very shortly the end of the industry . was easily in sight. His own experience during the past year proved this to bo almost cone : usive and -et he was one of the fortunate few who did not pay royalty, etc. Had ho been subjected to* these same charges as the majority of millers lie would have had to face a serious deficit. He is certain that there is not a. mill in the district paying at the present time, and unless circumstances alter greatly for tho, better they are not likely to.

The phophets have foretold truly, writes a San Francisco correspondent to a Christchurch paper. Now that Roosevelt has gone the big men of his own party are "openly sneering at his administration and his politics. _ At-torney-General Wickersham practically promised, at a political dinner in New York, last week, that many of the prosecutions of tho great trusts for their tyrannous methods—prosecutions which Roosevelt commenced —would bo dropped without trial. The speeches of Wickersham and of Joseph H. Choate have been well described as a cowardly betrayal of Roosevelt. Had such speeches been made on behalf of Taft during the presidential election, Bryan, the Democratic candidate, would have carried the country. Roosevelt was certainly led to believe that the Taft Administration would follow the lines laid down by himself. Had he suspected the contrary, a word from him during the campaign would have swept Taft into oblivion. ' Yet now, as soon as he was gone, it seems that his policy of placing just. limitations on the power of wealth is to be scorned and fustrated by Taft’s men.

A Press Association telegram states that the Wellington manager of tho Blackball Company denies that the fire in Mills’ yard, Dunedin, on Tuesday, occured in Blackball coal, or through it. Ho states that their coal has only been supplied -for eleven months, and that the seat of the fire was near other coals, and it is difficult to say what caused it.

At the conclusion of a case in the Queensland Supreme Court commenting on the failure of the jury to agreo, the Chief Justice (Sir Pope Cooper) said that he probably had tried more criminal and civil cases before juries than any other occupant of the Bench in the country and was convinced that the time had arrived when there was urgent need for alteration to the laws relating to a “unanimous verdict” of the jury. The present system handicapped the Crown in criminal cases, and honest litigants in civil cases. He thought the law should be altered. It was impossible to properly administer justice while the Jaw existed _ as at present, and he hoped the Legislature would take some action in the matter.

The “Waimrapa Daily Times” says: —“Mr. Hogg is once more a ‘free lance.’ In our opinion he was unwise to attach himself to a Liberal Ministry with Conservative instincts. We regret his loss of power and position, because ‘Fortune ’knockp once, ,at least, at every man’s gate,’ and Mr. Hogg cannot be sure of a second call. But Mr. Hogg’s future career as a public man, and the measure of service which he will be able to render to his fellow-men, will depend entirely upon Mr Hogg himself. We shall be pleased to find the member for Masterton, whether in or out of office, worthily retaining the confidence and esteem of the large constituency which he rej>resents.”

The Rev. N. D. Herring, vicar of the Anglican Church at Broken Hill, in his monthly letter to the parishioners, commenting on the recent rain, says:—“l have purposely refrained from public prayer for' rain, because rightly or wrongly I believe sufficient rain falls for our needs even tho driest season, if we would only conserve it. Apart from that, with a river at most but seventy miles away, a never-failing supply, placed there by an all-wise Goa, we should never know what it is to even fear a water famine. It has been said God helps those who help themselves, but we want to be perfectly sure that we have done the best with the means at our disposal before vr& g* flying to God to make good our carelessness and neglect.” •