TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 November 1912, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[per press association.] .MISSING .\I.\X KOl'XI) OKA I). GUl'ft. XovtMiiln'r 28. Ilodoriek Cleaver, •_'•") ynar.s of ago. svns round shut in the Waigaia Bush not lar from his c.*;xmjj yesterday, lie had evident!y been dead .some lime. (leaver left the camp on Iho 18th. and had not been .seen since. lie was a native of London, •Hid (.-ante to the dominion six years WKST COAST XKWS. WKST PORT. .November 28. Thomas Stewart, a seaman on the. -learner Canopus, lias been missing since Tuesday week. He is pnsed to have been drowned in the II nHer river. The Weslport Coal Company offer a f for C subsidy up to L'loo for maintaining a Plunket nurse. SHKKP HKTI'HXS. WELLINGTON. November 27.

The Department ot Agriculture has prepared a return of (lie total breeding ewes in the dominion, ami the estimated percentage of lambs lor the 1012-1 M season. In regard to stud sheep the return estimates the percentage of lambs til the Auck'and. X'eison, West Coast districts ■is !)•"). and the percentage in the \farlhorough, Kaikoura and the Otago districts as 101. The totals ■inder the heading of "stud" in the North Island are: Lincoln, 28,108: I'omney. (il.081: Border Leicester. M.OMU: Knglish Leicester I. Ifi! : Shropshire 2.IMM: Southdown, 7.f>!)l : other breeds. 1.1.-10!). Cnder tho heading of "Klook" the estimated nerceiifage ol lambs is 0M in the North and 00 in the South. The North Island total is given as (>,- '-71.381 cross-breds iand other longwools. not Studs, while the South Island total is fi!)M.(><)l merinos and >.001.877 crossbreds and oilier longwools, not si uds. giving a grand fotal for Xew Zealand of 11,MH0,201.