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Manawatu Herald, 28 July 1896, Page 2

Now is the time potato onions can be sown.

The Wellington Supreme Court opens on Monday.

To-night, at 7.30 the Foxton Racing Club hold their annual meeting at the Club's office.

The new British Army magazine rifle will throw a bullet to a distance of over 4,000 yards.

A Turkish turban of the largest Bize contains from 10 to 20 yards of the finest and softest muslin.

Mr Liddell has made a good start with the addition to Mr Loveday'a drapers'a shop.

The Government have decided to take up Mr O'Regan's Referendum Bill, with slight amendments.

Mr McCloskey has secured a portion of Messrs P. Hennessy A Go's, store, where the office was, and Mr Gue. Walsh is making the neoessary alterations.

It is said that if a man can get fourpenoe a pound for Blaok Hambro grapes he can make an excellent living out of them.

M. Ribot, a rioh merchant, has been arrested in Baroelona on a charge of conoealing a number of Anarohists after the bomb explosion in June last.

The Wirokino Road Board has instruoted its clerk to make a claim against the owner of a waggon for extraordinary damage to the Horowhenaa East Road.

At a meeting of ratepayers last week at Otaki resolutions were carried that it is not desirable that the County offioe should be removed from Otaki.

A witness informed the Mildura Enquiry Commission that the cost of advertising the settlement was between £40,000 and £50,000.

Every ton of Atlantic water when evaporated yields 811 b of salt; a ton of Paoiflc water, 791 b; Arotio and Antarctic waters yield 851 b to the ton, and Dead Sea water 1871 b.

la Australia the earliest yellow- flesh peaches are the Conkling and Yellow Crawford. They are excellent as fresh fruit and are suitable for drying tod canning.

Mr W. H. Beetham states that for practical purposes the following four vines should be grown : — Chasselas de Dore, Chasselas de Fontainbleau, Black Hambro, and the Muscat Hambro.

It is reported that the United Kingdom Allianoe offered the Rev. L. M. Isitt £500 to conduot a mission in Great Britain, bnt that in view of the eleotion and the local option poll he refused the offer.

Fruit is preserved in Victoria by bottling it and boiling, sealing it down whilst perfeotly hot, almost at the boiling-point. Being air-tight it can be kept for a number of years. Just a particle of sugar is used by some persons, wher«aa others do not me any.

Peas oan now be sown for an early orop.

Sow small lots of beans, cabbages, cauliflowers, red cabbages, lettuoes and radishes.

Prune gooseberries this month if not done earlier.

Roses should be well manured if ft good show of flowers is desired.

The Palmerston stock . sale will be held on Thursday.

The Feilding Jockey Club made a profit of £421 on the past year's transactions.

In Mr Alf Fraser'a shop window Mr MoElwain shows two capital photographic groups of the late wedding party.

Since the Feilding Jookey'Club leased their property they have spent upwards of £1700 in improvements.

Matche3 have not yet displaced the tinder-box in certain rural districts of Spain and Italy.

There is a meeting of the shareholders of the Temperanoe Hall Company called for to-morrow night:

Mr Langdon advertises that specifications for flax clearing on the Motoa Estate oan be seen at Mr Rhodes' store.

In Mr Arbon'a advertisement he notifies that on and after the first of August he will sell bread at threepence the 21b loaf.

The Chess match that was to have been held to-night is postponed owing to the lines probably being wanted for the Publio Works Statement.

The fern is indicative of fascination. In Saxony the present of a lover to his sweetheart of a handful of ferns is equivalent to a proposal.

Tha match, Australians v. Marylebone Club, ended in a draw, though the Home team with only 68 runs to make to win had seven wiokets in band.

" If the peaches at the show are the best peaohes you can grow in New Zealand, I can only say that they are far behind what they are in Victoria." — Mr Williams.

An exchange says : — Mr George Slater, one of the best of New Zealand sporting Writers, is still seriously indisposed at Auckland.

The Chinese Government is permitting the establishment of Japanese factories in China, and offered to grant Japan a most-favoured-nation clause, but the latter was refused. A reciprocal Customs treaty between the two countries has been signed.

Mr Williams at the Fruit Conference said the making of fruit pulp was almost an absolute necessity. In some districts outside Melbourne, where they grow raspberries by the ton, they would lose a great deal if they did not make pulp of them.

The Bangitikei Racing Club held their annual meeting on Saturday last when the report and balance sheet were read and adopted. The Club have a balance in hand of £188 14s 9d. A donation of £10 10s to the Wanganui Hospital was voted, and the Secretary's salary was raised £10.

Dean Farrar issued on June 20 a national appeal for funds to save Canterbury > athedral from destruction. The g.and old building is now 13 centuries old, and has fallen into decay. It will require £20,000 to make the Cathedral seoure for another century.

By the last mail says the Star the Hawera Dairy Factory Company had returns for two shipments of cheese, which realised the highest prices of the season, viz., 443. The cheese is reported as being the finest received from New Zealand.

The 2-8 test in milk means that it will take 31 libs milk to make one pound of bntter. 30 means only 29'llbs milk to the pound of butter, and 3-2 means 27*21bs milk to the pound of butter, and so in proportion. As the test grows higher the less milk is needed to make a pound of butter.

By some extraordinary means a mistake occurred in our report of the parishioners' meeting of All Saints, and Mr England was credited with a recitation instead of Mr Langdon. This is unfortunate as Mr Langdon took the trouble to attend the meeting but Mr England was absent.

The Mercury reports the destruction by fire of Mr B. K. Simpson's house at Dalvey Farm near Marton on Sunday. It was occupied by Mr Alexander Simpson. The house, a two storied one and contents, were destroyed. The building had been up thirty years. The insurances were £600 on house and furniture.

At the parishioners meeting of St. Peter's Church, Wellington, Mr S. Waters proposed a motion " That the time had now arrived when it was highly necessary that the women should have an equal vote in the management of parochial affairs." It was not proceeded with as the chairman ruled it was not in order.

Mr J. G. Wilson opposed the Bill introduced by Mr G. Hutchison to restore the law as to driving stock to the position of 1893, as he thought it would be "a retrograde piece of legislation, as the difficulty of getting sheepfarmers to get a petition up to stop the driving of sheep at night was so great that nobody would take the trouble to go round and be at a considerable expense in getting up a petition." The second reading was not agreed to.

A letter has been received by the Victorian Minister of Agriculture from a gentleman residing in Sydney regarding the sale of Australian batter in Great Britain. He states he recently visited England, and observed the manner in wbioh Australian butter was plaoed on the market. As the result of his observations, he strongly advises the Agricultural Department when plaoing its brand of quality on a butter box to burn into the wood the date of the stamping. If this were done he thinks it would in a measure defeat the tactics of unprincipled dealers and grocers in England who place inferior batter in empty boxes bearing the departmental stamp, and sell it as "prime Victorian butter."