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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 374, 7 May 1866, Page 5

Pbaibie Geass. —With regard to the different grasses named in a paper lately read before the Acclimatisation Society of New South Wales, it is remarked that the Californian prairie grass is considered soft, and alone is insufficient to fatten cattle or to feed working beasts; it is valuable for dairy farms, for the nursing of young and sick cattle, and as a resource when other feed is wauling; but, to bo generally available, the land on which it is grown should, while the grass is quite young, have a second sowing with cook’s foot or some other hard grass, which will fill the interspaces and keep out weeds, and afterwards give substance to the feed. Rye grass is apt to grow tufty ; it is pernnial, but, unless watched and occasionally resown, will disappoint the sower, who will find after three or four years, very little grass in a pasture that may have been a perfect carpet of useful vegetation, and is now a bed of weeds.

Suicide of a Sf.egeakt op the 65th Regiment. —Wo learn from the Naval and Military Gazette, that Sergrant Francis Allman committed suicide iti his barrack-room at the Raglan Barracks, Dovouport, on Wednesday evening. He was supposed to have been disappointed at a recent promotion made in the regiment, when another man was appointed to a preferment that Allman considered himself entitled to. From this disappointment he had been led inio irregularity, and absented himself a day and a night from his barracks without leave. On his return he was put under arrest, and about 8 p.m. on Wednesday he shot himself with a rifle. He had been nearly 20 years in tho regiment, was about 40 years of age, and unmarried.

The Cantsbbuby Standabd. —Tho Canterbury Evening Mail says:—“We have to note the sale of our contemporary the Canterbury Standard, which fell to the hammer of Messrs J. Oliver and Sou, this morning. After several years of useful existence, during which it has fulfilled its mission, it passes into new hands. The property, we, hear, has been knocked down for £lls5 —a sum small enough, if we take into the consideration of the value of the plant, which is handed over with the copy right of tho paper. We hope that the new owner will succeed in maintaining the character of our local press and if we are rightly informed as to the present proprietorship, wa need have no doubt upon the subject,”