Miscellaneous Items.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1621, 29 January 1886, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items.

Farmers, residing m the Wairarapa are "living m a veryCiiuaan as oom- ;": parped with their Australian hWthrejn. : yn' old/resident iri New Zealand no> fiottlkli'at^Beg^^^rming^diet'rict m the sou thgrn part of New Sou th W»Us, . wrritps^Jtbus,' under the date ; of the ':■„•■ 23rd , .-'oyeraber: —"The drought' stil 1 ■-■ < lasts m/ all its fierce intensity, and the '* d'attlft are dying rapidly. Business jis .«q.uikLJ"Jt..' alstiindsill., arid farming . /property absolutely unsaleable. Thejro is miiclvsickness m tho district, owing _ to_ the . Urouffh C -The- X-— h, out / neigUl'OU.J's,. havp to buy. butter for • their own me. .Their poor cattle ate i: no more, and I could hot venture to r take you to their house how oawing- to the stench from the dead brittle; so ,: that you will Jiave no difficulty m forming an- idea of tlie extent of-tliia ' affliction. Our cattle' strfl ;';'. hold together bravely, but they aria begiun- .. mg 1 to: show signs of want of'gias^and . if webo not have rain before tlie winter, vthey must die."— Exchange. ' ! - / :. The Jfapier ' D<dy Tetegrapnh. says:— Another - tetsimonial . to the ability of- the Railway Departtneut \k- has Veen given by the Hastings T^own ■: Bbird. Soitie time 1 agothey applied 'fop a reduction of , ordinary rates for th*e conveyance of a large quantity jof "> ; cemen^roin the Spifc to TonidaUA Of - cour.s.e~the Department stood on th^ir ■wooden-lieaSed' andWflekible regiilat- -• ions an«l declined, though ordinary .; 'people., would" h&uve thought that ,it '' ' would have puid bettor to have made a ro.ductiqn^thenj tpArun^mauy empty trucks back,As_they at present have . r -to do^ to.,snit .the/tiniber trade;|and the result now is that the Town Board . ••• are calling for tenders for carting, the, cement from the Spit to the sceueof the" drainage" works. The freight will be conveyed along a road parallel . to_. a railway.- is progress m tho nineteenth century in' New Zealand." These teftioiouialrt are '»ecoming the rule on the New Zealanb trail ways: We liave had a little experience of Hail way Mismanagement down this way, A gentleman from the West Coast waited at the Ohristchurch Press office on Saturday last to exhibit a „ i ,' -me'vir ! electrical divirihig rod. Fbrr-tliw modern invention aU the po were, and more, of^he *anmenir hiajricai rod m detecting gold any where were claimed. • ': The rod teas an arrangement of wire cased m lather, something like a huge ■ ; sp-ir^ lihe diving rod being nicely- : balanced acr6sg| the hal f-circle so that one half was outside aud formed what might bg termed the^rpwel. Attached were bottles coutaiiiing gold and electricity. The gentleman from the West Coalst •, tried the rod with a, representative of '■ the Press on some gold and silver coins and sure enough the rod dipped over the gdld coin infallibly. The Press repesentative tried it, and he :.. also succeeded, as the rod " dipped? over the But the representative of the fourth estate was nob quite satisfi.ed, so he rolled three sixpencesanda half-sovereign m paper , and laid them about the room m positions unknown to' the gentleman from the West. Goast The divining rod was tried, but here it was decidedly at a fault, for it did hot respond to the gold, but did to the last of the silver coins. The gentleman from the West Coa«t departed with a request that nothing should be written concerning the matter, a* it was evident that if the rod could not detect gold when rolled m paper the claraes of its inventor that it would " dip " when walking over a spot on any hill where gold was concealed m the earth were open to question. / ■ ..

For Oonsumptlon" Baxter*, Long Preserrer has I beeu signally roceossful ' ' . ; . , ; J ' ■ ■ ■■ ■ i