Memoranda.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 57, 30 October 1890, Page 2

Memoranda.

Mrs Donkin advertises for apprentices and improvers. Mr Braj, C.E., invites tenders for painting the Foresters' Hall. The advertisement anent the benefit in aid of Mrs Waddmgton and family, is published to-day. Tenders are invited by Mr Bray for stamping and clearing land. For particulars see advertisement. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) have received th • following cable menage from their ! London office, dated 24! n inst., viz. : — Tallow — There is rather better inquiry. Fine mutton is worth 27s 6i and good i beef 25s 9d per cwt. Frozen meatsMutton market firmer. Canterbury is worth 4| nnd Wellington 3f per lb. Beef market quiet ; quotations unchanged New Zealand bemn— Market firmer. Medium is worth £19 10s per ton. There is more inquiry for common. They have an easy fashion of dealing with fractious .lunatics on the West Coast. Last week a Chinaman suddenly developed insanity on the road between Waimea and Kuraara He stripped himself and flung liis clothes into the bush, and then delivered an eloquent oration to a couple of dead remu trees. Some telegraph line men bundled him into a sack, tied the mouth of the sack securely, and sent him into Kumara by coach as a bale of dangerous goods. Among the many patents which hare been put before the public by Mr J. E. Haynes, of Lain b ton Qu.iy. Wellington, one worthy of notice is that called the " Cyclone Spray," which should prove invaluable to farmers and. other* who are troubled with codlin moth, scaly blight, or other orchard pests. The invention, which consists of a small force-pump, is ma le entirely of brass, thereby preventing any , corrosive aciinn of the various acids con'ained in blight specifics. The pump is arranged with nozzle sprays, which cnn op removed at pleasure, and by a few strokes <>f the handle sends forth a perfect mist of fluid, and the harder the pump is work f a the finer the cloud of spray. The fluid is forced into the nozzle through oblique holes, which give it a rotary motion, thereby causing the volume of mist »o disperse. Mr Peter Thomson is the local agent.