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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2489, 29 March 1882, Page 3

ANTED, a competent Nurse Girl. Eeferences required. Apply, daily, between twelve and three o'clock, to Mrs Cooke, cff BHgh's road, Papanut. 1642 day evening, the 27th inat.. - -al square, a Liver and. White Cocker SPABiEL- Slut. Answers to the name of Nell. A reward will be paid to anyoae returning her to the undersigned, and any person found detaining htr after this notice will be prosecuted. Geo. Stringer, New Zealand Insurance Company, Bertford street. 1643 T O *T, a BUNCH of KEYS~Ihe J-J finder will be rewarded by returning above to R. W. Ek gland, Tuam street. 1644

NEW ZBALAND RAILWAYS. (Christchurch Section ) INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. FOR the information of Exhibitors, A gents, Carters, and others, the Regulations under which FREE CARRIAGE of EXHIBITS U granted are published below. It will be noticed the concession i« given to goods consigned to the Promoters of the Exhibition only, who make their own arrangements for the delivery of exhibits from the Railway to the Exhibition. FBEDK. BACK. Traffic Manager. Traffio Manager's Office, Ohristchurch, March 29th, ISS2. [Extract from " New Zealand Gazette," 17th February, 18S2 J ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS TO THE SCALE OF FARES AND CHARGES IV FJRCE ON THE NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. IN accordance with the By-lawi for the) New Zealand Bailways, fixed by orders in Council dated the Sib January, Idßl, and the 22nd September, 18S1, the following scale of charges for the purposes specified below is hereby fixed, in lieu of or in addition to that at present in force, and such, scale shall come into force herewith : Goods consigned for Exhibit at the International Exhibition to be held at Chiistchurch during April, 1882, will be carried free on the New Zealand Railways, provided that they shall be ao carried at the sole risk of the consigners, and that each package shall be consigned to the promoters of the Exhibition, and marked legibly, " For Exhibit at Chrlstchnrch International Exhibition," and that loading and unloading shall be done at the expense of the consignors, .ncl that, in event of such Exhibits being sold, the fall railway charges shall be paid. Bated this 16th day cf February, 18S2 H. A. ATKINSON, Minister asting for the Minister for 1645 Public Works. AN AMERICAN'S OPINION OF HOR3E3 IN AUSTRALIA. Mr R. Cameron, who imported Leamington and other horses to America, has just returned from a trip to Australia, where ho was appointed Commissioner from the Dominion of Canada' to attend the Melbourne Exhibition, and his stay being prolonged to the middle of last, November gave him an ample opportunity of noting all the prominent points connected with the turf on the other side. Mr Cameron is a gentleman thoroughly versed in a'l that pertains to breeding and racing, and has witnessed the best in Europe and America. Mr Cameron was surprised to find the most complete racecourse he had ever seen at Flemington. The course is wider than any in America, and the appointments are superior. The attendance on Cup day completely astounded him, and the Derby day at Epsom is the only place where he thought he had seen it exceeded. He then goes on to ear —The timing apparatus consists of a hugo dial many feet in diameter and in plain view of the thousands who attend. Prom each fractional point run wires, which an attendant touches ai the leading horse passes, and instantaneously the time is recorded on the dial. The measurements having been made with the greatest accuracy, the time can be relied upon with a nicety, with the advantage of there being no delay from a comparison of watches and the striking of averages when there is a difference on the part of the timers. Interesting, however, as the racecourse and its adjuncts are to those who witness the racing, the people in this country are more interested in the character of the horses which participate in the sport. Mr Cameron is emphatio in pronouncing them the best he ever saw, and is of opinion that if California does not rear animals of the same calibre, that there will be little use in sending horses there to run. This view is based on the advantages of climate, which are something analogous to those which this State presents—a greater uniformity in temperature, more nutritious herbage, an evidence of superior vitality to those which are reared in moieter climes. He has noticed the same electric conditions, and, doubtless, the insular position is not without some benefits. There is the same tendency o early maturity—the two-year-olds in that oountry having usually reached their full stature, and thoueh cot as " heavily topped '* as the horses of Kentucky and England there is a fullness of muscle and general wiriness of form which tell of capacity to perform great feats. The success of Iroquois End Foxhall in England and France has stimulated the desire for American blood in the colonies. Mr Cameron was the owner of a two-year-old sister to Foxhall, and he disposed of her to Mr Finlay, the owner of the Glenmoriston stud. Many of the breeders requested him to send them mares combining the Boston and Glencoe or the Lexington and Glencoe blood, and if these were coupled with Leamington, Bonnie Scotland or Phaeton, so much the better. There is no question that mutual advantages will follow an interchange, and that the breeders here can get a supply which will be just what is wanted. There are only three Lexington mares in California, two of them too old to send such a distance, but there are Norfolk and Woodburn mares, many of them having a double cross of Glencoe, and which would just suit the Australian strains. Then there could be brought back descendants of Fisherman, of Maccaroni, Yattendon, Musket, Kelpie, &3, to add to our blood, and by making a part of the importations young animals, there would be an opportunity to test them in actual races.

FARMING- NOTES. A Berkshire farmer writes :—"I thrashed last week a nest of wheat which stood out all the rain, and was terribly grown and damaged. I dressed it with a prize winnowing fan, and it then weighed list 15 ;b per bushel. It was practicably unsaleable at market as it was, but a friendly miller offered to run it through the Eureka cleaning machine. After this operation the wheat scaled 12st 41b per 4 bushels, being a gain of 91b per sack, or 181 b per qr. Of course I lost measure, as well as having a lot of rough wheats left on hand, which 1 am obliged to feed. Isn't this one explanation how the tithe owner gets some of his premiums on his tilho rent charge." A Vergennes dispatch to the Boston "Herald" tells the story of the "corner" in apples as follows : —From a leading member of the Vorment apple syndicate, it has been learned, in reference to the "corner" in Vermoct grown apples, that the syndioate composed of four firms learned through their Eastern and Western correspondents that there would be a scarcity of apples in all but a portion of Vermont, known as the Champlain valley. Agents were quietly sent to all points along the lines of railway, and contracts made with all the leading producers of apples at various prices, ranging from two to three dollars per barrel. In the town of Shelburn, Ohittendon county, several extensive orchards wero purchased, one producing nearly 5000 barrels, and several 1500 to 2000 each; while, in Addieon and Grand Isle counties, orchards are numerous which produoe from 400 to 600 barrels of No. 1 fruit annually. Th 6 syndicate in now busily engaged in securing the small lots of 25 to 100 barrels over this eectioD, and in forwarding the fruit contracted to market. It has purchased, to tin's date, over 32.000 barrels of No. 1 graft apples. Of these, 5000 barrels are sent to Now York for ttorago in "coolers," where the fruit is guaranteed to be constantly kept at a temperature of 10 degrees, which prevents decay and admits of sales late in the season, when the markets aro cleaned out of choice fruit. The remainder of its extensive purehsees will be sent dirccc to Boston for storage and sale.