Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 14 June 1892, Page 3

Notes and Events.

Mr C. Trevatfc, of Mildura, states that he took £-12 13s 2d lasfc season from a strawberry patch about a tenth of an acre in extent, and that 100 apricot trees averaged 1-5- cases fruit each. His return was a large one, and while the prices he obtained were probably twice as high as those thafc will rule in years to come, still a handsome profit would be realised afc half fche rates he secured. There is plenty of wealth to be made' in the fruifc growing busi ness.

The following pithy remarks on the breeding of dairy cows were made by Governor Hoard afc the New York Farmers' Institute : — " Breed for a purpose. Don't mix beef and milk together in the same hide ! The general purpose cow is a myth ! The foxhound will cross a bird's track 1000 times without notice ; but when he scents the foxtrack he throws up his head, and in tones clear and musical says, « I've found it.' ' Found what, Mr Foxhound ? ' Found that for which I was bred.' So the bird dog. He crosses the fox-track 1000 times and pays no attention. When he scents the bird his nose and tail say. ' I've found it — that for which I was bred.' There is nofc a schoolboy in all Onondaga County who can be coaxed or hired to go hunting foxes or birds with a bulldog. But there are hundreds of ' daddies ' in the same country who go every day ahunting for butter in a beef cow."

The fairy-like success of the Paris Petit Journal, which, sold afc £d, distributes through France, and Belgium 1,030,000 copies daily, has at last decided the production of a London daily paper conceived on the same lines, and sold at the same prices. Similar schemes have more than once been discussed, and the proprietors of the Times a few years ago started, bufc failed to establish a |d morning daily called the Sum' mary. The weary dulness of that paper has never been surpassed, and the Summar-i/ went to join the Jfforti' ning Star, the Hour, and the long line of other London dailies which have lost or never found a footing. The new venture is now not only fully decided upon, but is in active and advanced preparation ; and it is expected that the first number will appear within the next few weeks. The title of this paper will be the Morning, and ifc is being projected by a limited company with a considerable number of shareholders. The " note "of the paper is to be lightness of touch. Everything that is interesting will, it is promised, be dealt with in a light and attractive way. The Morning wJU have no pelitiM— thai i* to . «ty

ifc will' be politically independent, and, indeed, it will aim rather at the subordination of politics to matters which ifc is thought are more immediately and more widely attractive. Parliament will be reported descriptively, and the French fashion of a daily instalment of a novel will be followed". The paper will consist of four pages, of seven columns eacb.