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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 471, 18 April 1867, Page 2

The nomination of candidates for the i Superintendency of Auckland was fixed for Tuesday, April 16. Coal, as will be seen by advertisement 1 in another column, may bo obtained for 35s per ton from the yards of Mr J. H. Vautier, Eastern Spit. Panama Mail.—Capt. Loverock, of the schooner ‘ Blue Bell,’ informs us that there was no sign of the long over-due, and now anxiously expected, Panama Mail at Wellington up to Saturday, 13th inst., — a telegram having been received in Canterbury to that effect. Peaiexe Gtiass. —ln forming a pasture of prairie grass the following mode of procedure may prove of interest. At the time of sowing, a portion of the paddock received a dressing of Peruvian guano at the rate of two hundredweight per acre. The summer following being dry, the grass made but little growth. In the autumn the whole of the pasture was top-drersed with stable dung, at the rate of about 30 loads to the acre. As the month of August set in the grass began to make a fine show, but the part whiciihad received the guano was twice as forward as the rest, and the same vigorous growth continued, marking distinctly where the dressing of guano ceased. To Ship Feesh Meat Sweet. —The following is an extract from a letter dated, Sydney, March 7th, and published in the Australian:—“A chemist here has just found that he can fit a ship witn an appa l ratus that will keep in a congealed state oOe carcases ox uccx, ,n tsxxs, these carcases have been entirely frozen through at starting. 1 saw experiments yesterday of a perfectly startling character. Beef killed five months ago was quite good. The discovery is expected to make a perfect revolution in the stock market, and give us all the aid we so sadly want.”