NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2135, 28 December 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[peb pbbbs ASSOCIATION. I DUNEDIN, December 28. Boxing Bay. The steamer excursions were largely patronised yesterday. Three thousand attended the Hibernian fete. “Pinafore” drew a tremendous house, hundreds were unable to obtain admittance. The circus had oyer 6000 persons. All the amusements passed off without any accident. AUCKLAND, December 27. Accident. The oldest daughter of the Bey. B. McKenney, Waiharangi, was thrown from her horse while tiding, and had her collar bone broken, besides other injuries. She was for some time unconscious, but has since recovered. NAPIEE, December 27. Fatal Fire. A fatal fire occurred at Dennett’s Albion Hotel this morning. The hotel was discovered to be on fire, and it was supposed that all the inmates were rescued, though one was so drunk that he had to bo lowered by ropes, being incapable of helping himself. The fire brigade got the fire under, after about £SOO worth of damage was done, one wing being gutted. The firemen£in going through the rooms then found a man named Smailey, a shepherd, who had just come to town. There was no knob on the handle of the door inside his room, and thus he could not escape. He was very little burned, and evidently died from suffocation. The insurances on the building were —£SCO in the Standard, £BOO in the N.Z.; on the furniture, £SOO in the Union. The stock was not insured. Funeral of TarehaThe funeral of the old'cbief, Tareha, will bo a grand affair. Hundreds of Natives are arriving from all parts at the Government expense. A grand mausoleum, to be faced with marble, has been erected, and the tangi is a greater affair than has been held for eighty years. It is calculated to cost about £2OOO. GIBBOENE, December 27. Fatal Boat AccidentA fatal accident occurred in the harbor on Christmas evening. A boat containing four men. working on the Lochnagar, put off about eleven o’clock for the shore, and when nearing the river bar the boat’s plug got knocked out and the boat while filling capsized. The occupants held on to the boat until daylight, when one who was exhausted fell off and was drowned. WELLINGTON, December 27. Measles on tne NorthumberlandThe measles are confined to the Northumberland second class and steerage passengers six cases are rather severe, and only appeared about three weeks ago. The cabin passengers have been isolated, and with the ship will probably be released’on Thursday. The others remain on Somes Island. The Holidays. The weather is beautiful for the holiday, which has been generally observed. PIOXON, December 27. The Hingarooma. As the Eingarooma, with excursionists, was attemting to slew round from the wharf this afternoon, she ran into a mud bank forward, and will not be able to get off till the morning’s tide. DUNEDIN, December 27. Holiday WeatherTho weather to-day was remarkably fine, and the various sports were well attended. “ H-m-S. Pinafore.” The production of “ Pinafore ” by the Simonsen’s company to-night was an immense success. The house was packed, and Signor Riccardi received a perfect ovation. A PRIZE GARDEN. The following extract from the “ Loader's” deicription of the garden which secured ths second prize offered by the Horticultural Society of Victoria will afford an insight into tho method of properly cultivating and managing a garden of this particular kind : “Mr Sisson’s ground might, without much impropriety, be designated, from the great bulk of certain crops that are grown, ‘a garden farm,’ and it may bo questioned whether it could be surpassed by any ether in

the colony cultivated in a similar manner. *he bulk of the crop consists of only lame ha,f dozen kinds of vegetables, while certain things are scarcely grown at all. The main crops consist of asparagus, French beans, onions, rhubarb, potatoes, with a smaller proportion of cabbage, cauliflower, celery, tomatoes, roots and herbs ; but no peas or broad beans and we did not observe any radishes or lettuce. The condition of the ground in regard to its preparation by subsoiling and draining, manuring, cultivation and freedom from weeds is most excellent, and could hardly be anywhere surpassed. Large quantities of nightsoil and stable manure are used, as much as fifty loads per acre being insome instances applied in a year. Of asparagus, an sere and a half is grown, from which as many as 8000 heads have been sent to market in one day. A small portion is grown in beds, which have to be worked with the spade in the oldfashioned way, but the bulk is in rows a yard apart. As soon as the haulm is cut in autumn, and the ground cleaned and levelled, furrows are made with a double mouldboard plough between the rows, which are about a hundred yards long, and a load of nightsoil is laid down at _ the end of each furrow ; the ground being on a slope, and the nightsoil in a semiliquid state, it flows from one end to the other, it is then covered over with soil, making the surface level or nearly so. In August furrows are again drawn, so that there is a ridge of aoil over each row, out of which the heads are cut. Of French beans about a quarter of an acre is grown. An area of about an acre of celery is grown annually ; the seedlings being at the time of our visit just coming through. There are few or no cabbages in use at present, but a good lot—after parsnips and potatoes—are coming forward. Cauliflowers are over for the season. Carrots are sown in drills 15in. apart; parsnips at 18in. Onions occupy about two acres, all transplanted, except a small lot for pulling green, and are looking well, the earliest likely to be ready for sale in two or three weeks. Garlic also is largely grown, about half an acre being occupied with it. Of rhubarb there are about five acres ; moat of it is sown where it has to remain, the superabundant plants being thinned out the second year, and either sold or transplanted. It is annually manured in a similar manner to the asparagus. Most of the ground in which the young fruit-trees are growing is wholly occupied with rhubarb, as well as the spaces between the trees in the remaining rows ; the remainder of the ground is cropped with onions and roots. Mr Sisson’s intention is to clear away the rhubarb as it wears out and the trees extend, and have nothing besides asparagus in rows alternate with the trees. The rhubarb is generally very strong and prolific, yielding a large weight of produce, as many as from 300 to 400 dozen per week being occasionally sent to market. Of potatoes five or six acres are grown in autumn, and one or more in spring j the sorts grown are kidneys and American Early Bose. Mint and other herbs occupy about a quarter of an acre. Tomatoes are also grown to some extent; we observed young plants growing between rows of onions. Bye is sown on the edges of some of the lands to form a breakwind where tender plants are grown. Mr Sisson grows most of his own seeds. Wo observed a splendid crop of cabbage seeds nearly matured, besides onions and carrots. A large number of pigs are kept, twenty-seven good stores being fattening in the styes.”