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Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 March 1910, Page 3

.Mr Andrew Burns, senior, who has been resident in Levin for a while past, left for Wellington today, en route for Christchurch, where he may permanently reside and follow his profession.

The experimental pork shipments still continue. The "Wakanui." which left for London this month, had on hoard 108 carcases of frozen poik from Auckland. No pork was sent from Wellington by this vessel.

The Water Commission of Victoria has sold two trucks of lucerne hay raised on the experimental farm at Tatura. one at CI per ton and. the other at G 1 10s. As the land yields from four to five tons to the acre of lucerne the lucrative nature of this crop under irrigated culture can be realised.

Groper are very numerous off the coast line of the' South Island at present, 'and Timaru deep-sea fishermen enjoyed unusual runs of luck all last week, says the Timaru Herald. On Wednesday the whole fleet secured a record catch, said to total several hundreds. About 300 fish were sent to the cool stores and the rest (about 35 barrels) went up to Ohristchurch by the second express. It is said that these fish at Ohristchurch bring 8d to lOd each, whilst the lowest price a groper can he bought at the wharf by a Timaru resident is 2s. If this is true, the foreign consumer is getting the cheapest fish.

Mr Dooley says:—"As f'r th' tarmer's wife, if she wasn't happy, who sli'u'd be? All she had to attind to was th' care iv th' house, th' cookin', th' chickens, th' childer, and th' churn. Surrounded be th' beauties iv nature, why sli'u'd she complain? lverv rustle iv til' breeze in th' oircluml promised her preserves to be put up in th' fall. Th' chickens strutting an' cackling in th' farmyard spoke iv eggs .to be fried. Th' lowing kine brought thoughts to her mind iv th' churn. L'Viu her parlour window she c'u'd see the golden buckwheat gleflmin' in th' sun, remindin' her that th' autumn was approaching with its stimulatin' combats between her griddle .in' th' hired man's appetite."

The The Hot Lakes "Chronicle" accuses Lord Kitchener of having made a pun. While escorting him over the Whakarewarewa Reserve, it says,' Maggie, the guide, was explaining to him that the very worst thing one could do to Maoris—the greatest insult that could be offered—was to compare them to something that they were in the habit of eating, such as to call a man a pig. In the olden days the punishment for such a crime was deatlh "hi that case," said Lord Kitchener, "it wouldn't do t-o call a nice Maori girl a deer (dear)."