CORED BY A BULL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 August 1910, Page 3

CORED BY A BULL.

[PER PRESS ABBOPUTION.I WESTPORT, This Day. The man, Michael Clancy who was gorocl by a bull at Karamea has died in hospital.

Mr C. Rockel has been appointed second assistant-master at Levin District High School. By advertisement on page 2 of to-day's Chronicle Levin consumers of gas are reminded that to-morrow (Wednesday) is the last day upon which discount will be allowed oil' tihe charges per thousand feet. The huge totla of 44,45G,7751b50f milk was received by Lltham Dairy Co. during the past season, which yielded 1/J31,0201bs of butter fat, from which was made 802 tons 2cwt of butter. This was an increase of 73J tons over the previous year's output. The quantity of milk to make ono pound of butter was 25.01 lbs. The average test was 3.7, and the overrun 15.87. Suppliers had been paid an average of 10.78 d, and there was a further payment possible of 0.824 per lb butter-fat.

At a meeting of the Otago FootbaJl Association at Dunedin last night, P. Aitcheson, a member of the Alliance Club, was suspended till the end , of 1915 for co n ti n ued deliberate tripping, and McLeod, a member of the same club, was similarly dealt with for violent charging and kicking. Cormack, also of the Alliance Club, was suspended till the end of Ju n e, 1911, for striking an opponent. The suspension of five years imposed. o n Lawso n (Mor n ington Club) by the Wednesday Association, for striking a referee, was endorsed.

The formal inauguration of the ploughing season is very a n oie n t and is still observed in some parts of the world. Among the Romans, by the institution of various religious festivals connected with agriculture, the seasons came to be regarded with reverence. Before the Roman P"t the plough i n to the ground he went to the temple of the goddess of earth, Tell us, o n e of ■whose priests performed certain propitiatory rites.

It is stated that the amount of the income from the sheep industry at Australia has been put dow n at the colossal sum of £30,000,000 per annum. Some individual breeders, particularly those engaged i n the breeding of pedigree sheep, make fine incomes. It is declared that the profits from the sale of the wellknown Boo n oke (New South Wales) rams for 22 years have averaged nearly £22,000 per annum.