FROM OUR EXCHANGES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1381, 27 October 1886, Page 2

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

4 USiELL HINT,

The Field gives the full 'Wins' useful hint If a man wants a carriage of any Implement photographed, so as to make a working copy to -cale, ail that in necessary b, whan a photograph is being taken ihat a dear and distinct three-foot rule be pi reed in Ihe carriage This is photo graphed along with the carriage! and no matter wh?.t the size of the print, or negat've, it will always be a true scale. It enlarges or diminiohes, in exactly toe same proportion as the carriage.” p::opos?:d new coin.

A correspondent suggests to a Home parer that a 50s gold coin should bo ifsaod to commemorate the Queen s jubilee. It would have many advantages : 1. The number of shillings would mark the fif y years, ir jublee. 2. Naming it “Victoria” would for over mark the gr“at event. 3. It would (n the half of a £'» note) be a very convenient current coin of the realm. 4. It would be likely to bo very popular as aa ornament for ladles, who will certainly require a something very marked to wear in honor of the Queen,

ON’E FOR MR MAXWELL. The following Is from a recant issue of the Wanganui Herald : —“ Reserved,” in large letters, attached to a railway carriage generally indicates that some high and m'ghty individual condescending to use the line, desires to have a carriage to himself Last night there was one carriage so marked, and the tccupant was—Mr Maxwell. Why this autocrat of the New Zealand railways should have a reserved carriage we do not know, but as Mr Maxwell can tell eo much better than anyone e'se why It la ih-t our line does not pay, he might give an opinion on the coat entailed on the Government every time he takes a “reserved ’ carriage when the colony would be as well served by his travelling like an ordinary individual.

FERRETS AND SHEEP. While a settler in the Puerua Valley was at some work with hta horses the other day, he noticed a ferret holding cn to the ear of a sheep. The sheep tred hard to throw it i ff, but could not. The settler went to its assistance, but the sheep ran off, and he could not leave his horses to follow It. What the result was he could net tell. The incident (says the Leader) is suggestive as to the danger to iambs should the rabbits ever bo ex ei minated, and the ferrets now being turned out all over the country be pteated for food If they attack full-grown i-heep It is to be feared the lambs will have In these ferocious vermin a very dangerous enemy.

MOBMONISM IN NEW ZEALAND, Mormonlsrn (we are told by the Grevtown Standard) is Increasing in numbers in the North Island. A great number of natives have become adherents in Napier, and they are particularly numerous In the Gisborne district. At Palmtrstoa North the mission is being energetically prosecuted among iho Mangitana tribe. Elders E. L. Davis and M. R. Pratt (the latter being a son if the famous Orson Pratt) are laboring in the Waira-spa at the present time, and within the last six weeks, they state, 40 natives have professe the fairh. In Carterton there are about 40 Europeans who have j fined the Saints, ihe president of tfm di-tricl, Mr Newby is at present in the Manawatu dis'rict.

BLUE-RIHBONISM IN AUCKLAND. In another path of social reform, temperance, Mr Mathew Barnett is paruin; bis successful 'murse As he him elf stiys, he conies here only as a gV-.ner, for in the past three years over 10 OCO persons have been enrobe. i in the li ta of tue Bine Ribbon Army iu Auckland city and adjacent dLtricts alone. As one of the siuns of the times, the Clurch of England hen is t-ki-g a hearty interest In such work, A me.ting of the clergy was held recently to secure bet et organi<at'on and a more thorough onpention with the laity in the muter, an 1 Bishop Cow e has n >titi d Mr Burnett that he will have great pleasure in presiding at soma of his meetings

THE HAKATERAMKA VALLEY. Perhaps w thout exception the region of the Hakateramea is the most forward, both as to aivzing and agriculture at the present time At Christie’s farm m finer paddocks of wheat coaid fee beheld t'<au are there ; but, indeed, all the cerea’s look splendid. Cattle and sheep have nowhere donned a better appearance than they exhibit on the ferti e Hakateramea, and some Idea of the richness of the pasture mly be arrived at when we mention that a consignment of bullocks from the Station Peak, finished on purely natural grass, topped the Dunedin market a few weeks ago. The polled angus breed of cattle, imported to these lands first by Judge Ward and the Australian Land Company, ate getting into market favor, and droves of this harcfy and beautiful kind a»-e now to be seen browsing oa the Talley slopes of the Hakateramea river. The butcher shows a preference for polled angus, and their sable coat certainly does not fake from the fine scenery <>f this favored portion of the country. — JVaimate Times,

GIRL KILLED BY A CHILD, An inqnest was held at Penrith recently, before Mr Lee. Deputy-Coroner, touching the death of Joan Ann Rae, a girl thirteen years old, who had been killed by a stone thrown by her cottfin, Juhn Graham, eight years of age. The evidence showed that several children were playing together on the previous Sunday in Penrith Beacon Wood, where they were gathering blackberries. The boy Graham had been interfering with the fruit gathering by j imping on the hushes, and the deceased, who had a stick, threatened to thrash him if he did not go away and gave him a rap with a stick, Graham thereupon threw a stone at her, bat missed her, and he threw auother while she was standing with her back towards him, and this hit her on the back of the neck, causing rupture of a blond-vesse! at the base of the brain. The girl dropped down aud died in a few minutes. The jury returned a verdict that the death of the deceased was caused by the stone thrown by Graham, but that he being only e’ght years of age was not of sufficient capacity to have felonious Intent. Graham is in custody of the police, and will be brought before the MagisFates.