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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 152, 3 February 1903, Page 4

A "Whangarei fruit-grower is congratulating himself on having received in the Wellington market 7s per 201 b case for the despised Japanese plum.

On a farm in the South Island a yielb of 931 bushels of grass seed has been threshed out, the quality of the crop being uniform throughout. An offer of 3s 6d per bushel, before threshing, as it stood, was refused.

People with chest complaints are recommended by medical men to read aloud, as this strengthens throat, lungs, an chest muscles alike. The reading should be deliberate and the snunciation clear, the body being held in an easy, untrained, upright position, so .that the chest will have free P la y*

The, wool merchants of Wellington report that the clips - now coming to hand from statidns in the "Wellington district show increased bulk by comparison with those of previous years. An exception, however, is noted in the division of wool known as ’’hogget,” there having been a mortality amongst the young sheep as a result of rigorous weather.

According to a West Coast Exchange the Premier at Westport the other d *y. smd that while at Hokitika he noticed pieople going up to the totalisator with their money and under unfavourable cii cumstances some £SOOO had been put through the machine and another £ IO,OOO or £15,000 at Greymouth. He did not think that a proper way of spending money, but people in .mining communities were spoits. Mr Seddon expressed himself freely against the totahsator, and suggested that he sometimes thought the people with the roll of notes in their hands about to invest on the maehine should first have interviewed their drapers and grocers.