COLONIAL NEWS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 646, 22 September 1882, Page 2

COLONIAL NEWS.

Tbe premises of Messrs Park and Anderson, James Strachan, and Taylor & Bowie, Main South Road, Timaru, were destroyed by lire, on Tuesday niorninir. —In his lecture lately at Ashburton, Mr Brown suid In this colony the fanners ,vcre not particular ouoiigh aboiit the quality of their

cows, many animals on the plains were mere bags of bones—such beasts would never do for a cheese factory. Now, f-up-posing that th'.ir cows averaged two gal lons ~.,:• day for nine months in the year, that gave 558 gallons for each cow. which at 4d per ga ion gave a profit of £',) Gs for the nine months. Would that pay ? h otigir. to do— but add (he value of the call to tho cow, and you made the .£9 6s, J-10. Fifty cows at £10 a head, would yiehl =.000 a year—would that pay ? He was glad to say that, he had made satisfactory iiirangeinerits with tho shipping companies, who would offer every facility for the transit of tin cheese to the Home market. They had promised to give him a compartment where the temperature could lie equalised as necessity arose. At 50 degrees they would be aide to get the cheese into the London market hi prime condition, for it always looked better for « sea Voyage. a—_u—_a—s_—ugaaagmCTt—ce__»_^