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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 59, 7 March 1902, Page 4

As a boy at school Colonel Roosevelt was not great at reciting. Once he had to recite a piece beginning : At midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk lay, dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knees in supplianee bent, Should tremble at his power. "Teddy" oaly got, as far as "When Greece, her knees," when he came to a halt. Twice he repeated "Greece, her knees," and then he broke down The old professor beamed on the future President over his glasses, and remarked : "Grease her knees once more, Theodore ; perhaps she'll go then." The value of the irrigation works recently opened in the Levin district is (says the Post) already in evidence. The pastures were never looking so fresh in any previous summer as they do at the present time, a fact which is attributed to the moisture which the land has been receiving since the water supply system was brought into operation. One farmer in the district states that owing to the luxuriance of the feed since the irrigation works were opened his 25 cows have been giving 201 b weight more milk per day than before. ' " : .

Captain Mallin, of the British ship Scottish Minstrel, which arrived at Astoria last month, from Valparaiso, tells an Astoria paper, of a singular experience that happened. on the passage from Europe. While rounding Cape Horn the day was beautiful, with a strong breeze, when suddenly the vessel ran into a tide rip which lasted for several hours, with tremendous seas. The .patent log showed that during this period the vessel had log"ged 9 knots but only three were made in the entire time. While this experience was in progress a four-masted barque was seen about four miles away rolling heavily, and suddenly rolled over and disappeared. The weather was so clear that there r could be no mistake about the .vessel having rolled over and sunk. The identity of the vessel was not known.

Mr John Sharp, of Ladbrooks, Canterbury, has threshed 115 g bushels of oata to the acre off 45 acres, or an average yield of oats from 200 acres of 84§ bushels.