NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 145, 29 November 1884, Page 2

NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS.

I Considerable anxiei&lippearß to exist rin Dunedin as to .ttiet/^otiditioo of the Otago bar^-.Sqnieijlp^spondence publiahed m the papbnr goes to' show that Vqujte recently one of the large ocean steamers had to carry on to Lyttleton a portion of her Port Chalmers cargo, as, had she discharged it at its destination, her trim would have been affected so as to render it dangerous for her to cross the b^r,..^^UtA^eem.ako.to-i^^nter—-tamed whether, if the dredge should bo disabled fo* a time, tffe 7 Arawi- will be able to get.in when she yisits_o.tago. At -thelasmeetrifgfof 'ffiS' mWuT^BoW"^ the Harbour Master reported that unforttinWely the bar had Bbbaled %, and •unless something conld be done he would not be ip a position to advise that Home ships 'shouldicome m. ;' Considerable disousaion is freely indulged m just now as to the pause of the sad hay oc amongst oar 1 peach treep. •The peach :t'ree^&^johe*tiifie,.<«ro«ikl^ grow, any where without.care or attention Whatever and, the fruit, years ago* was'as plentpi^^lack^^s^iaj^ Old Country ; but of late years there has been a falling off m thecsttpply of this mostj luscious of fruits, and this year .we, believe, there] w&ot a^eyT&nftigh- T * o:U ttg 'whole 1 of tliEdSß dtsfrjetk— eVclpt Karefi and Foxtoh — that -is fruit-bear-ing. IThiSiWiU -iteM StwA^osftttif^ilfe/i pibmes and social gatherings. Testerday we j^fatton pappr)) jurf the,pfoaju|pe»( , i of examining, a ; wy powerfnl microscope, at Mr Henry Sanson's,- junry Sandon, sonie'.hjids taken from a 1 peach tfe'e.( : Th«^Mß, ( when y obi :i }; ' ened and put under'the<m'icroscope;{:dfß--close4 some scores of insects-, similar m shape; to* ;V9pdMbug k ;atf busy ;sat;»r«*.ii all ; Jfi c buds subjec&d , to; inspection were (more or less infected with these insects, M* Sanaon. inrfonps.us that he, placed- i^'oadi^^rdatfe^'^fadr^P ' waitiApc Jotne time, he found signs o£- ; life istill left m the insects. Whether " these jinsects arepth^ /cause or mot of the; failure of oiii* l pe4oU treWs wd *r© uot id a position- to /state: , Here thenvitp a study for those whbiakea'Dinttffetrin 1 such ] matters. .^einVite^ correspondence! on the subject?*- «' ; ' > -.1 '- VOiXe* Atjthe last ganeraO ifieMng of the Wellington Philosophical- -Society Dr Hectcjr read a. paper entitled 1 " No&& on New {Zealand Ornithology," commnnicatedj by.se.rg; Keiag^gjt^ig^enn^^ ornithologist. Dr Hector. stated thai the aqthor v .of thq, paper hadjspent about. v , seveiij years' in New Zealand studying :V " the habits of the .tii^sj^^hevycojgny, and had thus aquired a ., xery intimate knowfe He 9 . down .to the West Coast in..thc;-,(JoTern- % jinent ejteamer Stella,ariTd sp^e'tit 1 si* .months. inthejncinJtyofDaslcySoqnd'byh'iraseli^ •-•' studying' the birds inhabrtiog that, region. 'He navigated, .the sdund ia;<n : i old, Maori dug-out canoe, lebt.fc^hHn^ylm aproßpeotor living m tha^j TieighbourKj n ho6d. ; He also explored the: table Igna lying between Dusky" SouncJ and ' ' Jacket Aim, and met ,wit|i fiftjfcfinV-** l 1 difierent species of^ birds, 1 l! Oii i 6^fe" i d«a^; nOl ■ sion he went Tip' ttfSthe ] 'stfmWiitl of 'i •■ ! ■ snow-clad moontain, and remaio^i tbieclt > ■/ weeks for the purpose ro^pbsetyiflfihft^y, habitsj of certain birds, his principal sustenance .during that time , consisting of a load' of oatmeal which Jie^had carried Upon his^ back, (> JDr, Hector thought VL ', expiditib'ns were made ittiti 'thai 'distr^i " <r; m the same spirit' a's ' they We're inirfe 'id 77 ,pther | remote parts of thV"World, they w.ould «dd 'to ; great dis'c6veh<Jß : , '1' beingiatl the top ;of tbn 'cliffs- it (the! v (^ West CoaSt Sounds a comparatively, flat-; , 'open grossed table land pf ,10ft square- f; ., inilesiin^ extent. v:: , n ,- ( ;[' M: ';i{ ".