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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 84, 3 June 1902, Page 5

There would appear to be a good market for apples in South Africa. A late Canterbury resident saw the "fruit sold by auction in Johannesburg at 3s fid per dozen, and subsequently bought a couple at sixpense each. A private letter received from North Wairarapa states that on one station one man trapped, shot, or caught with dogs, 3000 rabbits in less than thiee months. This gives some id'a of the work that has to be done in putting down this pest. One of the “Peculiar People” in Holland recently broke his arm. He declined to call in a doctor, and wrapped a leaf out of a Bible round the small toe of his left ®foot. He declares that this gave him instant relief. He still walks about -with a broken arm. It may occur to the British colonies that if they are to furnish corps to fight for the Empire they should also furnish representatives to the Imperial Government .to determine when and for what causes the Imperial troops tdiall fight.- -“Dispatch,” Pittsburg. Some of the London local bodies have been accused of jobbery of a pronounced type, though the transactions were smill in amount. In South London a contract was about to be given to a local tradesman to fit up some additional shelves in the free library for ,£3O, when one of the members demurred to the cost, volunteering to do the work himself for 30s. An*attempt was m i.de t > vote him down, but he succeeded in iiettmg the matter referred back, and when it came up for reconsideration the same contractor’s price was £7 10s. In the north of London the Public H ;alth Committee of the Islington Council recommended that a contract for repairing and providing new section plates for the Cemetery at £136 7s should be accepted, whereupon an offer wais made to do all the work and to keep the plates in order for three years for L 22 7s 6d. In this case the contractor’s friends were too strong for the economists. Sad to say, these cases are not singular ones ot the way that the ratepayers’ money is frittered away bv those who should guard it. The 'Wellington New Zealand Times’

Palmerston North reporter says :--- Speaking generally lamb fatteners in this district defend to a great extent ..on the second growth of rade. On account, however, of the very dry summer, the blight this year was very much more severe than usual with the result that not only did growers lose the rape, but the turnip crops have b ien more or less ruined in this dist -ict. Early as the season is, the crops of late-keeping turnips are already r >tting away. This, no doubt, accounts f,r the unprecedented difference bet veen the value of Stores and fats in the local markets. The margin between fats and stores is now between