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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 104, 7 April 1885, Page 4

Owing to the alteration of the tariff m New South Wales, some of the tobacco manufacturers m that colony are looking out for a more remunerative field for their capital, and contemplate establishing operations m New Zealand. It is stated that an amalgamation has been effected with Volbracht's New Zealand Tobacco Growing and ManufacI turing Company (Limited), with a capital of ,£30,000. Sufficient capital has been subscribed to render unnecessary putting any shares m the market, and none will be offered for a year at all events, till the enterprise is fairly tested. Auckland will still remain the headquarters, though there will be provincial agencies. There are to be four Southern directors on the board, Wellington, Wanganui, Christchurch and Dunedin being represented. The farmers are already sending m sufficient tobacco to meet the consumption of the colony, and seed of all kinds has arrived for planting an additional breadth of 500 acres for next season, so that the question of exporting tobacco m excess of consumption will be forced upon the company at an early date. A farmer having made his fortune, moved into the city to enjoy it, but his old love clung to him, and he indulged m a small way m the agrestic pursuit. Visiting his friends m the country, and i elating his experience m city farming, he said — " I put outside my window a large box filled it with mould and sowed it with seed. "What do you think came up ?" " Wheat, barley or oats?" "No a policeman who ordered me to remove it." A frightful occurrence is recorded m the Town and Country as having happened at Raymond Terrace on February 1 4th. A little child, about eight months old, named Dunn, was eaten by pigs. It appears that the mother came into town at about six a.m., and left the child m bed with its father, who placed it upon the floor to play. The father fell asleep ; and, upon awakening, not seeing the child, got up, and then discovered two pigs, about ten yards from the house, m the act of worrying it. He rescued the child, and summoned medical aid as quickly as possible, but the child died before the doctor arrived. The unfortunate infant presented a sickening appearance, both legs having been eaten off near the knees, The left arm was eaten off close to the shoulder. The pigs, apparently were half-starved animals, came from a neighbour's place about three hundred yards away.