Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, FEB. 5, 1895.

Manawatu Herald, 5 February 1895, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, FEB. 5, 1895.

. To-morrow Messrs Gorton & Son hold their stock sale At Waituna. The. Bam Fair at faltherston appears to have been a failure. Out of over 470 Lin* coln9 offered : only 112 were sold, and apparently to only 10 or 12 buyers. The Government papers always desirous of blinking the depression amußingly suggest that the Fair was held too early in the season. Of course farmers and auctioneers, are not likely to be so well informed as these news--1 paper men. It is a query whether they know the time these sheep are wanted. An item from Otaki makes it appear as though matters were not all rose-ooloured in that district, as it is said at the last Magistrate's Court there were sixteen cases of debt, most of them being judgment sum* monses. Stock has tumbled down. Sheep having | fallen nearly two-thirds in value to what they were this time last year. What does this mean to settlers who stocked last year ? One of the novelties in progress for the Paris exhibition in 1900 is a model of the moon, on such an enormous scale that baloon journeys will be made around it. It is mentioned in a Home paper that the bitter cry of the son of a man famous in Parliament and as a card-player has been lately heard in Oxford. "My father allows me £300 a year grumbles an undergraduate, gaily, " but he wins it nearly all back from me at poker:" An excellent hint to fathers who are called upon to make allowances. The sheep returns show that in April last there were 4,364,779 Bams, 4,071,854 wethers, 8,989,044 breeding ewes, 1,450,606 ewes not intended to be bred from and 5,384,546 lambs, in the colony, making a total of 20,230,829 sheep. The Wanganut Harbour Board has just , discovered that the total cost of a report on the rive? has amounted to £500, and they do not like it. Mr Baker, chemist, has left the town and closed the business.

tn the Manawatu County on the 30th April last there were 222,970 sheep, an excess of only 870 from the corresponding period of last yean The Batik of New Zealand Estates Conlpaiiy owned over 28,000. the next largest owner is Henry Barber with 11,390, then W. W. Johnston with 11.297, then J. G. WTson with 8945 and JJobinson Brothers with 8000. Twenty one sheep farmers own over 1000 sheep, 13 over 2000, S over 3000, and 3 over 10,000. In out last issue It was notified that retttrfls of land and mortgage must be sent in to the Commissioner of Taxes on or before Ist May. We are pleased to learn from the head master of the Foxton school that the average attendance for the first week since the re-opening after the holidays, showed an increase Of forty as compared with a similar period of last year. The London report on the hemp market, though very bad, is certainly better than it has been, as hemp has been sold, and quotations are higher. The drought has broken Up, and everybody feels pleased* On Sunday evening a driazle set in, continued all night and Monday, and last night the rain came down hard. Even to-day it is damping and there appears a promise of more rain —which is wanted. An enormously rich discovery has been made in Hayes Bros.' claim, near the White Feather mine, Coolgardie. A sample of 3001 bof stone contained £300 worth of gold, in addition to 200oz of gold dollied. The stone is of white quartz, with nuggets clinging to it. Several parties have left to peg out claims. The first instalment of the Bank of New Zealand call has been well met in Auckland. The Standard Time for New South Wales was brought into operation at mid night on 31st January put back 4min olsec. A peculiar complication has arisen at Broken Bill. Previously Adelaide time was observed there, but the new time places it 45min ahead of the Adelaide. There are great complaints from the business men and publicans, who state that they lose three-quarters of an hour daily by the change, and threaten to ignore the new time and ai?k the floverument to make a special concession. At a meeting of the Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society, Captain Russell gave notice of a motion affirming that it is absolutely essential for the proper supervision of the stock industry, and in the interest of the consumers of meat, that a regular scientific branch should be added to the Government Agricultural Department, and the services of a bacteriologist obtained from Europe. The Post says: —lnstead of having anything to do with the Railways, MrCadman has been sent up amongst the Maoris in the TJriwera Country to perform functions which, if required to be performed at all, should devolve upon the iSative Minister —a position nominally held by Mr Seddorr W. S. Gilbert, in all his dreams of " topsy-turvydom," rarely, if ever, conceived a more grotesque situation than the Minister of Native Affairs undertaking the management of the Railway Service while the Minister of Railways is devoting himself to interference in native affairs. Mr Seddon's usurpation of control over the Railway Department is one of the most barefaced violations of propriety which even the records of the present Ministry furnishes. The following nominations were received for the three vacancies on the Wanganui Education Board :—Rev. J. Ross, Messrs G. Carson, J. H. Fry, Joseph Mayo, and B. C. Bobbins. The election is to be held on the 28th February, in accordance with the Act. Read the. advertisement of J. J. Bell, of Binghamton, N. V., U. S. A. He is offering seeds especially adapted to our country, and almost giving away a trial lot to get people to try them. Thomas Brown was this morning charged by Charles Lord, of Levin, before Messrs Thynne and Williams, J's.P. with using obscene language. Mr Ray nppeared for the accused. The case was dismissed, owing to the evidence of the prosecutor disclosing no offence within the meaning of j the Statute. By an advertisement elsewhere all persons are cautioned as to date when boiia Ji'k transactions in Native lands must be completed. Messrs Gorton and Son hold a stock sale at Bulls next Tuesday. Before the expiration of many years it seems likely that medicai men will have a ready weapon against diphtheria in the shape of anti-toxine. This is that element of the blood which is introduced by natural processes after the person or animal has had the disease mentioned, and which is antagonistic to the disease. It is well known that when a person has once had diphtheria, he is unlikely to have it a second time. This immunity results from the anti-toxine which develops in his blood by the action of the disease itself. Now, physicians wish to be able to use this antitoxine at .will, and they are trying to produce it in a semi-artificial way. The plan is to inoculate a rabbit, for example with diphtheria germs, to produce the disease in the animal, and when the antitoxine is developed, to extract it from the animal's blood. Then the anti-toxine can be used as a sub-cutaneous injection to stop the progress of the disease or to prevent its inception in a human being.