Miscellaneous.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 299, 1 March 1907, Page 2

Miscellaneous.

li ie understood that no leas a sum than £5OOO is to be expended oa the ’’isngi” over the tate Parifiaki propbet Tobu The money is to be paid from the late chief’s board at Paribaka. It is stated that tn the strong room in Ibn marae over £27,000 is stored in g <ld. The room is guarded by a comiui toe of iw-miy Natives, some balfpdozea being told off each week for tbe work. The lock of the strong room is worked with three keys, so that the three key-holders have to be present when the door is opened. Up to the time of his death Tobu held odg of tbe keys. Tbe muoey is stored in jars, each jar bolding three thousand sovereigns. It is stated that when the money was being collected oach £lO9 was changed into g >ld before being placed in tbe jars. F>r many years the levy for each Native entering Parihaka was £1 per bead.—“News.’’ BMOKERS. DERBY Tobacc. in tbe now TWO OUNCE TINS ia a delightful smoke—is MILD, but does not burn the tongue. Try it. A fltxruilter operating in the Bay of Plenty district is tur-uiog out over 60 tons of dressed fibre a wack. SMOKERB, PuEaSE NOTE Tbe famous DERBY ‘ Tobacco is now sold iu. TWO OUNCE TINS, FLkKE CUT. Try it.

A horned ewe, tbe property of Mr A. Colos. of Axe Fann, Axminrter, hag given birth to ten lambs witbin 50 weeks. Four were borne in No vember 1905 tbiee in April 1906 and and tbe same numbu.- iu November 1906. All tho lambs are reported healthy ana doing well. SMOKERS, ATTENTION PLE ASE. —The bast of all amok s is DERBY OUNCE FLAKE CUT in TWO TIN&

A Maniwatu paper states that a farmer on the West Coast has put up a good performance thia season. Being unable to secure labour, be and two sons have harvested nearly 150 acres of heavy crop, and his bill for outside labour nas come to under 80s. Betides this, they have managed to milk 14 cows night and morning.

SMOKERS PLEASE NOTE. A rash on it. What ? DERBY Tobacco, FLAKE CUT, iu TWO OUNCE TINS. All tobroenniste. In a country township naar the coast some young fellows go to the only store to kill time, and lounge and yawn till their brains get weary; then they prop themselves against tbe outside of tbe store, gaze about for a time and eventually go home. A tew nights ago a man had occasion to go to the store to post a letter, and not seeing any too well, jammed the tetter into an aperture, which be surmised was the letter box. When tbe tetter bad half disappeared a protest of a smothered sound and a shuffle came frum the vicinity of the letter-box. Then it dawned on the mao that be was trying to post a tetter down the throat of one of the young fellows whom he had caught yawning. '‘Good lord,” said he, “your month is big enough to put a parcel in.” The young fellow said if it had been fruit it would not have been so bad. SMOKERS READ THIS. The good thing at last! DERBY Tobacco, FLAKE CUT, in TWO - OUNCE TINS. Try it. The editor decided to try ’’fouetio” spelling in his paper and the experiment seemed a success until be got the following:—”Dere Sur, I hev tuk yure paper for leveu yeres butt eff yew kaut s pel euy be ter than yev bin doing for last to mouths yew ma jest atoppit.” If yon want flue potato crops don't forget to spray your plants with Shah land’s Potato Blight Extsbminator. It ia fatal to blight spores/’ Tbe Bed Funnel Magazine which has become such a popular New Zealand production still continues to maintain its high standard and tbe articles ?n the last number ars interesting and instructive.

It ia hard iu what shape or form the Land Bill will appear before the Hoose next session but it is pretty safe to say that its form will be so battered as hardly to ba a presen tablelooking effigy of the original measure.—Petone Chronicle. WANTED SMOKERS TO try FLAKE CUT DERBY Tobacco in the new TWOOUNCE TINS. It’s splendid.