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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1434, 17 December 1886, Page 3

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Friends of hnmaui y all over the world will hear with interest, with pleasure and gratitude that, the Qoeen Regent of Spain has s’gued a decee froeino the slaves in Cuba from the remainder of their te r nu of servitude. We may conc’ndo tha Qatea Christina has bestowed upon upward of 00 000 slaves the rights and privileges of freedom, and the act is none the less magnanimous because it has anticipated by four years the emancipation in IfcOO co ; templated bv the Cortes itself. Dr J. E. T-ylor, editor of Science Gossip to the Australasian says For the first time English agriculturists have suffered from » pest known to American wheat growers tor nearly a century, an wh’ch yen will have to ’oak out for in Australia—the Hessian fly. It has been specially abundant in the cornfields ot Essex and Hertfordshire. The wheat it attacks is bent down so sharply above the second joint as to be almost broken through, bnt|n t severed. On opening the haulm between the knot and the bond wo see objects assembling flax seed?, which are the larve. This year the Hessian fly has been ao abundant. In Georgia th it there is scarce enough wheat for seed nex' year Canada has also suffered from It The Insect taker Us name from Its sup no I'd introduction into America by the Hessian troops, engaged by the British G vernmeat during the American war.

A tn-chine f>r shearing sh'ep is said (o be i:i suce f.fal opotnt' <n in It is made cf mass, in th-t shape of asm’ ) trowel. The inuil»n is aclmsed hy m■* h oftismali turliaowhs-l,?«b'>'il- -h o inrh s i-i dilute'>v g-nred t;■ Lo at ot Of wheel o whi his fixed acu tor. In front is c mb ?o vain as a guard ajaitist ci 1 i-e t e skin. The steam is c ,nv i ved fmm tho boiler l<3’ an in n-.-rabhar tub which is double, hav ng oto i side th other. Th ■ inner one is tor .he it jnciio ■. and >ho spa:a h*w en tlio two for the ejnemn. ho inadtino is cod in th * same fashion as th- iheire. 'nit cuts tt " stated much meaner an I far quo 1 * r wi hunt t. >o total dangor of irja.'ing t.c flteoe ; f the aheap. In T-'Simnia the rabbit depdrimnl exports all the rabbit ski s. Tho valiu' nt these I >at year vrat £21,572. Lt Nee South VV.det mo »kun of a 1 the Mbboa kiliei in ih-i ff cted districts a o d - itroy dbj fire b tho rabbit inspect , Some <f ths bed j u nab have driwn a'tentlon to ibis obviously wasteful method of gotMng rid of a salearde article.