NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3695, 24 September 1927, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

(While returning from their honeymoon on a motor cycle combination, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Macdonald, of Old Mel drum, Aberdeenshire, came into collision with a motor car. The bride was thrown 20ft. into a field, and broke her arm; ■her husband was pinned beneath the car. Ho died in the hospital that night, five days- after his marriage) at the age of 26. The inhabitants of a New Zealand city consume in a year (according to the August issue of the New Zealand Smallholder) about 7000 tons of cabbages, 5000 tons of cauliflowers, and 10,000 tons of potatoes, these being the main market garden .articles of every-day consumption. In addition, large quantities of celery, cucumbers, tomatoes, and certain other crops annually pass through the vegetable markets at prices which appear remunerative, the income of seme Christchurch tomato growers alone at times reaching £3OOO. An Australian writer tells this story: A well-known greyhound fancier and breeder some ten months ago sent two puppies to a farm in Gippslaud to be reared. They were then about two months old. Their main article of diet was new

milk and they were given plenty of it. The farmer at whose place the puppies were lodged recently visited the breeder, and the breeder made inquiries regarding the young hopefuls. The report was most favourable, but the farmer stated that the brace of puppies had remarkable intelligence, for when a pail of new milk was placed before them they would not immediately lap it up, but lie down some distance away and guard the milk carefully for a few hours until a coating of cream formed on the top. They would then go to the dish and lap off the creaih only, leaving the milk for another period to repeat the skimming feat. They went through this performance daily.